February 2015

This past month in 2nd grade we worked on fractions in math and also place value to 1,000.  We are currently working on reading and writing numbers to 1,000 and will soon be adding and subtracting numbers to 1,000.  For reading, we read plays and folk tales.  The last story in our text book was a nonfiction article on explorers.  We worked on identifying main idea and details.  For grammar, we've been working on pronouns and possessive pronouns.  We did a writing activity on "If We Were President" and discussed Presidents' Day.  In social studies we continued to talk about local, state and national government.  We just wrapped up our latest chapter in science on the solar system and did a fun Oreo activity on moon phases.  Our new chapter deals with matter.  Of course we also celebrated Valentines Day with a fun class party and welcomed our new student teacher, Mr. Preszler to our room!