Second Grade

In the last full week of school, we’ve been doing our best to prepare for the Fairy Tale Awards. After finishing our writing, we began phase 1 (cover the box) of our parade floats. Then we move on to the details. What a creative bunch of kids! We also created our character awards. Here are Read More…

Last week in writing, we finished writing our Fairy Tale Awards and began typing them. We also started making our floats for the Fairy Tale Parade! Thank you for sending in items for us to use! In Fundations, we finished our unit on the /ü/ sound. We continued reading various fairy tales (such as even Read More…

In the past couple weeks, we’ve been enjoying the beautiful, cool weather. In writing we have continued working through our opinion writing unit, using the writer’s checklist to edit our own work. We also read Shrek together and practiced writing opinion papers using a graphic organizer to plan, as well as multiple reasons and evidence. Read More…

We kicked off the week with another Spirit Day: Wild Hair Day! Here are a few of us sporting our hairdos. We launched two new units this week! In writing, we started our opinion unit by writing book recommendation letters. So far we have practiced talking about our ideas and getting inspired by favorite characters Read More…

This past week, we designed and conducted our own experiments for the last phase of our lab reports! We had some interesting experiments going on, testing things like floating and sinking, variations on the ramp and race car experiment (with a catapult involved), and paper airplane shape and distance comparisons. Lots of creative ideas! As Read More…

In writing, we’ve been putting together all that we have learned so far about information writing. We started making catapults and testing whether a ping-pong ball or a cotton ball would go farther! Of course, we go through all steps of a lab report: Question, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Results, and Conclusion. In Fundations, we began a Read More…