February 17-21, 2014

This past week in 2nd Grade we celebrated Presidents Day by reading stories about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and watched some videos about their lives and presidencies.  We also talked about some other influential Presidents that our country has had.  We read a nonfiction story about explorers in our reading textbook and about Christopher Columbus.  We worked on compare and contrast with the information we learned about the Presidents and about the early explorers.  We worked on a Venn Diagram to visually see "compare and contrast".  In grammar, we worked on pronouns and possessive pronouns.  In math we explored expanded form and place value up to the hundreds.  In writing, we discussed making our writing more interesting not just "grocery list" writing.  We are currently discussing the solar system in science and our latest chapter covered the moon's phases.  We did a project with Oreo cookies where the students had to make the 8 phases of the moon using the cookies.  They then completed a "mini moon phase book" and of course got to eat their cookies at the end of the project!