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!

January 2015

This past month in second grade we were very busy.  We learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and started studying government in social studies; we studied natural resources in science and how we can protect them....we even made our own recycled projects!  We worked hard on "perfecting" a good paragraph; we wrote our New Year's Resolutions and wrapped up our math chapter on money and telling time.  We even had a speaker from the Dacotah Prairie Museum in Aberdeen come to visit us and show us some games/toys children used to play with in the past.  Who knew history could be so much fun!

 Doing story presentations using our iPads.

 Our New Year's Resolutions...

 Presenting our recycled projects...

 Recycling is Awesome!

 Having fun with the past and Sherrie from the Dacotah Prairie Museum...

December 2014

This past month in 2nd Grade was very busy.  We had the hustle and bustle of Christmas programs, Christmas parties and of course wrapping up our first semester.  We finished up our last social studies test on consumers and producers and our last science test on natural resources.  We also finished up the first book in our reading series and ended with the story Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type. We also did a writing activity about "applying" for Rudolph's job.  In math we started working with money and we also made Christmas ornaments for our parents.  This first semester was busy but fun and we are looking forward to a great second semester starting in January!

November 17-25, 2014

Well the month of November has flown by! These past two weeks in second grade were busy learning about food chains/food webs in science, a brief overview in social studies about the Native Americans, the pioneers, moving west, and the Civil War. We talked about verbs and past tense verbs in grammar, we made Thanksgiving cards and wrote about why we were thankful for our families, and we started typing in computers!  I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving break. Only three, busy, crazy weeks in December and it'll be Christmas break!

 Making Food Chains...

 Thanksgiving Cards...

We used our faces for the head of the turkey and our hands for the body. We then glued feathers on and added legs.  Inside the card, we wrote: "I am thankful for (mom, dad, etc.) because..."

Nov. 3-7, 2014

We've been pretty busy in 2nd grade these past two weeks.  We wrapped up October with a fun Halloween party and jumped right into November!  This past week we worked on verbs in grammar and of course kept reviewing nouns as well.  We read an African folk tale about how our body became assembled and discussed what makes a folk tale different from other genres of stories.  In math, we started addition with regrouping.  We've been practicing regrouping with addition of 2-digit numbers.  In science, we are talking about food chains and food webs.  Next week we will make our own food chain projects.  In social studies, we are reading about U.S. history and just read about the Revolutionary War.  We also discussed Veterans Day and what it means to be a veteran.  We did a craftivity where the students made eagles using their hand prints and wrote why they are thankful for our veterans.

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