Oct. 14-17, 2014

This past week in 2nd Grade, we read about visiting a hospital and an emergency room for reading.  We worked on R controlled words for phonics and long A words for spelling containing the vowel teams of ai/ay.  In Math we worked on picture graphs and problem solving by making a table to help us.  In grammar we worked on proper nouns and abbreviations of certain proper nouns like Mr., Mrs. Dr., Ms., etc. In science we continued our study of plants.  We made greenhouses and "planted" grass seed on a wet cotton ball so we can watch it sprout and see the roots grow.  Very exciting!  The students can't wait until the grass sprouts and they can see it start to grow!

We also had a cool show-n-tell this week!  A student brought in an actual shark's jaw and we were able to see all the teeth inside of it!

Oct. 6-10, 2014

This past week in 2nd grade, we worked on similes in language arts and made our own similes on Popplet.  We also talked about antonyms and made antonym ants.  In science we started our chapter on plants and did an experiment using celery and colored water to see how the stem of the celery works like a straw to suck up the water and take it to the leaves, changing the color of the leaves.  In math, we started working with data and picture graphs.  We also wrote an acrostic poem about GHOSTs and made a footprint ghost to go with it.  One other project we did was make bats to "spookify" our room.  We traced our hands for the wings of the bat!

 Silly Similes

 Spooktacular Bats!

 Super Science

 Antonym Ants

 Working Hard

Ghostly Acrostic Poetry

Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2014

This past week in 2nd Grade, we read the story The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.  This story is a great intro to our next chapter in science on plants.  We also did an author study on Eric Carle and read several of his other books and watched a video in which Carle demonstrates how he does his artwork for his stories.  In Phonics, we worked with R Controlled words and talked about how the r in ar, or, er, ir, and ur is like a "bully".  The r makes those vowels say the r sound.  In grammar we worked on nouns and using commas in series.  For math, we worked on how addition and subtraction are related and how to subtract all or subtract zero.  We also did an Educreation project on the iPad using subtraction story problems.  We took our science test on animals which all the students did very well on.  In social studies we discussed land forms like islands, peninsulas, mountains, plains, etc.