There's More to Explore....

This week we explored with a lot of materials! We used math materials, scrap paper, stuffed animals, and more! Ask your child - what was his/her favorite material this week?

Creating Our Rules

Last week we read The North Star, by Peter Reynolds, to inspire us to take our own paths and not just follow the path everyone else takes. Then we created stars to represent our hopes and dreams for the school year.

After deciding what our hopes or dreams were for the year, we decided we needed to make some class rules to ensure we could each achieve our goal.

Our first list of rules was realllllyyyy long. A bit too long. So then we realized that each rule fit into a category: how we treat ourselves, how we treat others, and how we treat the materials. We quickly got to work sorting the rules and then these smart second graders came up with these three big rules:

After we all signed our names - agreeing that we'd follow the rules - we worked in teams to make posters. Our posters showed what these rules look like, sound like, and feel like throughout our day.

Ask your child - what is his/her hope or dream for the year? What does each class rule really mean?

First Week!

We had an outstanding first week back at school! We played games, explored the classroom, and saw old friends! We explored with materials, shared new things we had discovered about them, and discussed how we wanted to take care of them. Check out the pictures below and ask your second grader about our first week adventures!

Back to School Get Together

Join us for a Back-to-School Get-Together!

Thursday, August 14th between 4:30-5:30 pm

Drop by when you can and stay as long as you want!


Come and enjoy the first time we're back together .... as SECOND GRADERS!

Catch up with old friends, meet new friends, and have fun!


See you there!!! :)

Check Out the Moon Tonight!!!

Tonight we'll have a "Super Moon!" Check out the article below for more information on tonight's moon. :)

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/10jul_supermoons/

Exploring With Sound

We designed and built our own instruments! We taught each other how to play them. We showed each other how to change the volume and change the pitch for our instruments. Then we had a jam session so we could play our instruments together!

Chicks!

Our chick unit was exciting and memorable! Ask your scientist about our chicks, their life cycle, observing them, and holding them.

We read Chicks Run Wild! and started to imagine what our chicks would do if they went wild...