Snowman Estimation

The students in Room 3 and Room 9 estimated how many cotton balls would fit in each part of their snowman and then how many would fit in all. They then got to check their estimates and decorate their snowmen!

Working on Our Board Games

The second grade classes are working in partners to create their own original math board games!

A Guest Reader in Room 3

We had a special guest reader in Room 3 today--Emily came to share a winter story with us!!! As she read, we practiced making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.

A Super Week in Second Grade!

It's hard to believe that December break is right around the corner!
Here are some highlights from this past week:
-Working on making connections to stories--text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world
-Writing/finishing up our butterfly stories
-Looking at specific types of story problems (change-plus and change-minus) and discussing strategies used to solve them
-Starting to plan and create math board games with a friend from other class
-Dissecting flowers with Kim and Anna in Science
-Watching an exciting presentation by Mad Science

Weekly Update

We have had a busy week in 2nd grade! We have been exploring the idea of perimeter, so this week we put ourselves to the test. We worked in pairs to measure and calculate the perimeter of a variety of shapes on the blacktop. We got to decide if we would use cm, in, ft or yds to measure each shape. We talked about the importance of measuring accurately and labeling our math drawings. We also had a few butterflies emerge from the chrysalides. We released 3 healthy butterflies this week! Today one started to fly away, but decided to return. It landed on a 2nd grade friend's shirt. We know that's because her shirt was so bright and colorful. Room 9 has started to write stories about the life cycle of a butterfly through the eyes of a caterpillar. Room 3 will start their stories next week.

Monarch Release

Perimeter on the Playground