LANDMARKS REVEALED

Look what a little creativity and a lot of

Model Magic can do!

Now we're learning about fossils, roots, and shoots!

What did you learn today?

 

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Fun and Learning

There's never a dull moment around here! There is so much to learn and so many ways to do it. In social social studies we've been learning about famous landmarks in the US and around the world. Now that we know all the continents, it is interesting to learn about the natural and manmade structures that add to the history and culture of each place.

Since we're also learning about geometry and measurement, we worked in groups to build landmarks from base ten and attribute blocks.

Everyone chose one landmark to research then constructed it from model magic. Look for an upcoming post to see the results....they came out great! We learned many amazing facts.

In addition to academics, we're always working on showing HEART. We recently filled our HEART jar and celebrated with a games party.

Honesty Effort Acceptance Respect Take Responsibility

We've been very busy writing stories. Everyone has chosen a favorite story to make into a hard cover book. Recently two local authors visited the second graders.

Kristine Asselyn gave us great advice for writing and showed us some of her published fiction and non fiction books.

Erik Matson inspired us to try our hand at science fiction and signed our class copies of his books.

Be sure to ask your child what he or she is writing about!

 

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