April 22-30, 2014

This past week in 2nd Grade, we celebrated Earth Day.  We did a craftivity/writing activity on if we were the Lorax how we would help the Earth.  We cut out circles from white construction paper and put them in a box with dots of green and blue paint on them and marbles in the box.  Then we shut the lid and shook the box to make a cool effect with the paint so our circles looked like "Earths".  We then glued a picture of ourselves on the Earth of us posing with a Lorax mustache.  We then wrote what we would do help the Earth.  In Math we started a new chapter on adding and subtracting to the hundreds place with and without regrouping.  In Social Studies, we are now working on map skills.  In Grammar we worked on using adverbs and in Reading, we read about African-American inventors.  We are getting ready for our spring music concert too...the theme is the 1980's!

April 7-11, 2014

This past week in 2nd Grade, we wrapped up our Social Studies unit on Citizenship.  Citizenship also happens to be our character trait for the month of April for Character Counts.  For the remainder of the school year we will be working on map skills for Social Studies.  In Science, we also wrapped up our latest chapter on how matter changes.  In Math, we've been working on measurement.  Lately we've been measuring pounds, ounces, grams, and kilograms.  We've been doing hands on activities using standard and non standard units of measurement.  For writing, we wrote a Spring Acrostic Poem since April is national poetry month.  We also did a writing craftivity on if we were the Easter Bunny.  April is also Autism Awareness month and we wore our Autism shirts on April 2nd and learned more about how Autism affects people including one of our own classmates.