Holiday Celebration

We had a wonderful time during our holiday celebration today. Thank you to all the families that donated treats to help us celebrate. 

Happy New Year!

Non-fiction Poster Presentation

Today we hosted our non-fiction poster presentation. The three other second grade classes came to our classroom to listen to us present our research project/poster. We had a great time!

Gem party!

We filled our gem jar again! We celebrated by watching the Elf on the Shelf movie and eating some yummy cookies! We also watched a cute video that stared the characters from the series "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" books. We had a fun afternoon celebrating our good behavior!

Courtney - Student of the Week

Courtney was our student of the week today! Great job, Courtney!

Science Experiment

This week we conducted an experiment with a variety of liquids (including the ones pictured below as well as water) and salt and asked the question " How will the liquid state of matter change?" We wrote a hypothesis, and the materials and procedure needed to conduct the experiment. We let the liquid mixture sit overnight and when we returned to school today, the liquid had turned into a solid! We grew a tree!!

Materials needed (plus water- not pictured)

Before

24 hours later

Jonathan - Student of the Week

Jonathan was our student of the week this week. He did a great job!

Science Experiment

We are currently writing a lab report with the question, " What will happen when we poke a pencil through a bag full of water?" Most students' hypothesis was that water will squirt out everywhere. Today we conducted the actual experiment and to the students' surprise.....no water leaked out! Ask your student all about it! Tomorrow we will write the results and conclusion to our lab report.

Research Projects

We have been learning all about non fiction books during our reading workshop time this month. This week we started our non fiction research projects. We all have a topic and are practicing how to gather, record and report our findings. Students will make an information poster for their final project. Ask your child what their research topic is!

Pictured below are students gathering information and recording their notes today during reading workshop.

Safa - Student of the Week

Safa was our student of the week this week. Each student will get a turn during the school year to share and tell us all about themselves. Great job, Safa!

Science Experiment

We finished writing another lab report! Yesterday we conducted an experiment to determine if an ice cube would melt quicker all alone, with sugar or with salt. Ask your child about what we found for a result.

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to Mohammed! He turns 8 years old today!

Thanksgiving Dinner!

Today we had a Thanksgiving dinner as a class. We made special hats and placemats. To make it even more special, we dimmed the lights and listened to soft music. We had a wonderful time together!

Writing Like Scientists!

We started writing lab reports today! Ask you student all about it and the experiment that we are going to conduct as a class!

Reading Non-fiction

We have been working on strategies to help us read and understand non-fiction books. Today we learned the strategy of Ask Questions while reading. Students practiced this and added questions to our poster during reading workshop today. They did a great job!

Friday Reading Fun!

Today we used the laptops to go on Raz-kids ( an online reading resource that students have access to online). Ask your child all about it! They may use Raz-Kids at home and it certainly can count toward their reading homework. 

Fall Fun!

We had a great day today! Check out all the fun pictures! Have a great night! Happy Fall!!