Budding Authors!

Busy Editing!

Writing Workshop: Our class has been hard at work on our personal narratives.  Each child has chosen their favorite story that they have written so far this year.  They learned how to revise and edit the text.  Now we are busy publishing.  Students are  typing their stories, adding craft, illustrating and creating covers.   This is an exciting process and a lot of fun!

Illustrating our Printed Stories

Typing using Google Classroom

Using Wallpaper to Create the Hard Cover

Checking our Spelling

More Revising

Measuring the Fun!:  In math, we have been working on measuring and place value.  Our work has been connected to the story Jack and the Beanstalk.  Our class has been measuring giant beans and the perimeter of Jack's garden bed.  This week we made our own number lines or measuring tapes to measure items in the classroom.

Creating Measuring Tapes

Measuring perimeter

Measuring Jack's Magic Beans

Making sets on ten Unifix cubes to measure

Teamwork

Reading Workshop:  During reading this week, we practiced reading Elephant and Piggie books fluently and with expression.  We also looked closer at dialogue and how to use quotation marks.  Students are enjoying working within their reading groups.

Genius Hour:  The students have enjoyed creating pumpkin patch marble mazes, bee  bots mazes, and a season craft in our last few genius hours.

Using our Engineering skills:  Designing a Marble Maze

Learning about Coding with Bee Bots

We created mazes and then programed our Bees to go in them!

We had to use our measurement skills to create 6 inch blocks on the path.

More Teamwork across Second Grade Classes

More Genius Hour Fun!:  Next week we will invite Ms. Correa to our classroom to teach us Spanish!  If you have a skill or activity you would like to share with second graders... please let us know.  We would love to have you!

Happy Fall

Reading Workshop:  This week during reading workshop we worked more on the basic elements of a narrative text.  We read Leaf Trouble and discussed the setting.  We found evidence in the text to prove our thoughts.  We then re-created the setting out of torn paper.

 

Using Technology to show our Learning:  We used the I-pads to create Popplets about a character from our independent reading books.  We took pictures from our books as evidence.  The students have learned to identify both inside and outside traits for their characters.

Reading with Big Buddies:  On Fridays we enjoy our time reading with our sixth grade buddies.

Mathematics:  We began unit two in Bridges.  This unit will focus on place value through 1,000.  We began by reading Jack in the Beanstalk and counting Jack's magic beans.  We sorted the beans into hundreds, tens, and ones.

Math Workplaces:  We learned two new workplace games this week.  We enjoyed  practicing our math skills with the games: Turn them over and Boo Bump.

We practice Reflex Math.

Genius Hour:  During our Genius Hour the Second Graders were challenged to make a parachute in order to help Jack escape.  The children were given paper, string, wax paper, tissue paper, saran wrap and tin foil to use for their creations.  They really enjoyed testing and improving their parachutes.

We are Engineers!

Inside Recess:  We beat the rainy day blues with fun activities with our friends.  It is so nice to see great friendships forming with classmates.

Making a home for the Hermit Crabs

Wednesday, Oct. 10- Nutrition Lesson with Nurse Reed

Friday, Oct. 12- Fire Prevention Assembly, Friendly Pirate Visit

Monday, Oct. 15- Evacuation Drill 10:00, Book Orders Due

Tuesday, Oct. 16- Open House, 6-7pm

Wednesday, Oct. 17- Nutrition Lesson with Nurse Reed

Oct. 18 & 19- No School, Professional Development

Thursday, Oct. 25- Early Release 11:30, No lunch served

Friday, Oct. 26- COL, 8:10