Boy, how time does fly! We recently marked the 100th day of school.
Working so hard in second grade this year sure has aged us! Hopefully we'll get some much needed rest over vacation.
Valentine's Day is a wonderful opportunity to show friendship and HEART. We enjoyed sharing Valentines and some special treats together. Thank you to all the parents who donated supplies and their time to our party.
On to the next 80 days!
There have been a lot of famous faces in room 205 lately.
Everyone read a biography, wrote a report, designed a poster, created a timeline, and presented their report to the class.
Each student learned from their own experience and benefitted from their classmates' research as well. From the oral reports, we learned about 19 different famous people.
In class we read about Milton Hershey. He was our model for the research and timeline project. We all wish Hershey Park was a bit closer. We'd like to see his chocolate town up close!
Today three firefighters visited to talk about fire safety.
The 3 big ideas were:
To help us remember to talk to our families about deciding on a meeting place, they gave us bags with special treats inside.
THANK YOU FIREFIGHTERS!!!!!
The firefighters invited everyone to stop by the station with their parents at anytime to see the trucks and to learn more.
They also told us when we're in sixth grade we could enroll in the Fire Adventurers Program and help them out! WOW! That's something to look forward to!
These are some of the treats inside the bags they left for us!
The FROG BLOG
For the past five years Room 205 has happily housed African Dwarf Frogs as class pets.
First there were
Ben and Jerry.
When Jerry passed we got Franklin.
Ben and Franklin.
Then Ben passed so we got Aretha.
Aretha and Franklin.
Last week Aretha passed.
Berry is our newest addition.
Frank and Berry.
They are becoming fast friends and enjoy hiding in the new aquatic plants.
Speaking of hiding....we recently studied animal adaptations, with a particular focus on how animals adapt to winter. Each student camouflaged a paper snowshoe hare in our classroom environment. Here are a few examples:
Can you find the bunnies?
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