Rockin', rehearsin', and Rollin'

It's been another busy week in room 205. We've gotten some relief from those warm stifling temperatures, so we're ready to listen and learn. We read about a bunny named Howard B. WiggleBottom. He helped us with some strategies for good listening.

Mrs. Susser, a speech teacher at Shaker Lane taught us a Rehearsal Strategy to help remember directions. She had some great helpers!

Our study of rocks and rock materials continues as we delve into how rock breaks down and what elements are inside.

We discussed that asphalt and concrete was made from rock. After many years of wear of tear, the hard top behind Shaker Lane is finally being repaved!!! I'm hoping to get someone from the paving company to talk to our class about the process of turning rocks into asphalt.

SPELLING

As I explained at curriculum night, not all students have the same spelling lists each week. Their words and homework activities are designed to help them practice the individual skills they need. Next week they will receive usernames and passwords for spellingcity.com. In class we help each other learn words and patterns.

 

 

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Lots of learning

SCIENCE

Today we started our science unit, PEBBLES, SAND AND SILT. All were familiar with pebbles and sand but that word silt raised a few eyebrows.

Our discussion began with the big ideas for our study and we listed as many rock forms as we could think of. Pretty good eh?

Next we talked about the difference between looking at and observing an object. Magnifying glasses helped us to find unique qualities in three different types of rock.

LANGUAGE ARTS

In reading this week we read Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant. Henry thinks Mudge is the perfect pet.

We've talked a lot about character traits in terms of facts and opinions as we don't all agree on the "perfect pet". Today we wrote persuasive letters to our parents, doing our best to convince them to welcome a new pet to our family. We're hoping to get a response! :) The kids loved reading the letters from their parents after open house last night.

 

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Settling in

It's week two in second grade. Blue and Berry arrived! They are excited to be back at school and are showing off their yoga moves.

We talked about class rules. Ask your child how our red and yellow cards are inspired from the world of soccer. Everyone earned their first raffle ticket on Tuesday. We're looking forward to the prize drawing on Friday, thank you to everyone who sent in donations to our prize box!

We're working on a mixed media project for Curriculum Night. So far we've written the poems and started painting.

Due to the heat, we had an extra block of time in the air conditioned TECH LAB. Here we are exploring the ABC-YA site.

 

 

It was time for a little fun at the end of a hot day...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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First day of school!

Today was a great day, in fact it was one in a minion...

Everyone arrived wide-eyed and ready to go!

We had art class first thing then it was on to morning meeting and routines.

We used our interviewing skills to learn more about each other.

We even played around with a little math.

We started our first read aloud after recess. Humphrey is very upset, we're not sure if he's going to try to escape or not. Stay tuned...

I'm looking forward to day two tomorrow. More friends will be sharing their

"ME BAGS", hurray!

 

 

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