Science and Writing
We are having our very own version of Shark Week. Second graders are learning how to take notes on nonfiction resources. We have read online articles and many books from the library to help us learn about sharks. We are compiling and organizing our facts this week and using that information to create reports.
Science
We ended our unit on the eye this week by dissecting a sheep's eye. We had fun learning about how the eye works and all about eye safety. It was a great experience, and I think the students enjoyed the opportunity as much as I did when I was in 2nd grade.
Math
We created special dice like the one pictured below. Students paired up and took turns adding 10 or 100 or subtracting 10 or 100 from a given number depending on what they rolled. This was a fun way to practice these facts. Students recorded their rolls, equations, and new start numbers using the form below.
Students played the game with partners.
We began our math unit on fractions. Students are using our geoblocks to show the many ways we can show half.
Reading
We absolutely love having our grandma volunteer in the room. Here, she is reading with one of our guided reading groups.
Our second graders are so busy reading, nobody noticed I snapped a few quick pictures!
We studied words that have prefixes. This group was assigned the prefix pre-. They came up with a list of words using the prefix and created a flower, displaying their words on each petal.
Literacy Night
A big thanks goes out to all of the families that came and participated in our school's literacy night. Families had fun as they traveled room to room participating in different literacy activities.
