This Week in 2nd Grade

Math

Students paired up to play a game comparing fractions.

 These fraction tiles were easy to use and helped us to understand the concept of fractions.

 We made fraction kites. Each student designed their own kite and determined what portion of the kite was shaded blue for example.

We also began exploring probability. Here two students play a dice game in which they record the total of the two numbers showing on the dice. They repeated this process to determine if one total had the same probability as another.

Here we all are! We are enjoying the beautiful weather with a game of soccer

Spring Concert Day

There are so many more pictures I would like to share. However, my computer is not allowing this to happen tonight. Please enjoy the ones that are here, and I will try again tomorrow night!

Week of May 13-17, 2013

This Week's Objectives

Language Arts

Reading: drawing conclusions, questioning, setting, and plot

Conventions: prepositions
Writing: informational report about the eye

Phonics: final syllables -tion, -ture, -ion

Spelling Words: mixture, nation, section, future, picture, action

caution, station, fixture, motion, nature, feature

Math

-identify all possible outcomes for a probability experiment

- decide which is most likely and least likely

-use numbers to describe the probability of an event

-measurement

Science

-states of matter

Week of May 6-10, 2013

Here are our objectives for the coming week:

Language Arts

Reading: informational texts, author's purpose, summarizing, multiple-meaning words

Story of the Week: Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag by John Herman

Phonics Skill: abbreviations

Spelling Words: Mr., Mrs., St., Jan., Feb., Aug., Dr., Ms., Rd., Oct., Nov., Dec.

Conventions: quotation marks
Writing: descriptive poems and songs

Math

-compare fractions using fraction strips

- write money amounts as fractions
- discuss probability
-finding all possible combinations

This Week in 2nd Grade

Math

This week in math we discussed symmetry. We used paper shapes to help us find the lines of symmetry. This led quite nicely into fractions, which we will be talking about in greater detail next week

Gym

Gym class was held outside to help us prepare for track and field day.

Dissection

We have been studying the eye and how it works. At the very end of our unit, the students had the unique opportunity of dissecting a sheep's eye. Thank you to Mrs. Tennant who is our specialist in this area and was able to help us with the dissection.

We were able to feel individual parts of the eye. Here a student feels how hard the lens actually is.

Another student gets to experience the flexibility of the pupil as Mrs. Tennant puts it over her finger.

We listen intently, engage in conversation, and ask questions to help us learn even more!

Writing

We did a writing project this week called "Buzzing About 2nd Grade." We wrote about our many memories and made these bees to go along with our writings.

Track and Field Day