Week 7

This week in 2nd grade, we talked about antonyms.  We discussed how antonyms are words that mean the opposite or almost the opposite.  We even made "antonym ants".  The students got a word and wrote that word on their ant.  Then they had to look up antonyms for their word on a dictionary app on our ipads.  They had to find two antonyms for their word and write them on their ant also. Then we colored them and hung them up on our lockers.  Besides antonyms, we also discussed proper punctuation and letter writing for grammar.  We also wrote Halloween stories and published them.  The students drew out of a bucket for a character, setting, and two verbs that needed to be included in their stories.  As we are working on developing our writing, the students needed to have two paragraphs for their stories this time.  I'm pretty impressed at some of our writing abilities!  In math, we are working on interpreting data and making pictographs and bar graphs.  We also talked about Christopher Columbus and watched a video on his important voyage and why we celebrate the holiday Columbus Day.  In science, we wrapped up our chapter on plants with a test to come this week.  Our grass in our greenhouses sprouted and the students were able to take them home.

 

Our Antonym Ants!