After we learned about the three types of communities, we did a group project showing what they looked like. An urban community looks like a city, a suburban community looks like neighborhoods with some stores, and a rural community looks like the country. We made root beer floats to review states of matter! The root beer was our liquid. The ice cream was our solid. And the bubbles from the soda was our gas. We also discovered that states of matter can change. The solid ice cream melted and became a liquid! And it was delicious! A number bond can help us see that numbers are made of up different numbers. We made this number bond craft to display how we can decompose a number into tens and ones. Most of my students this year LOVE drawing and art projects. To practice our measurement skills, we did a directed drawing of a bunny. Everyone learned how to draw the same bunny, but everyone's bunny is just a little bit different! Then, we practiced measurement parts of the bunny in inches and in centimeters. Here is some of our work! :) Today, we discussed the tragedy that happened on September 11, 2001. We learned about all the kinds of people that came to help and we wrote about what a hero is. Then, we made an American flag to show our love for our country. This week, we have been learning about why authors write stories. We discussed that an author might write to Persuade you to do something, Inform you about something, or Entertain you with a fiction story. We explored the scientific method while doing the penny dropper experiment! Our first step was to estimate how many drops of water we could place on the surface of a penny before it spilled over. Then, we were able to experiment and observe! Then, we recorded the data about how many drops could be placed on the penny. Finally, we continued to explore using different coins.
This week, we discussed what we needed to make a complete sentence in second grade. We learned about the peanut butter (the who) and the jelly (does what) of a sentence. Then we discussed how a sentence needs a head (capital letter) and feet (punctuation) to be complete! We created these sentence buddies to show what we learned. |
"Sometimes the thing your students need most, right now, has nothing to do with what's on your lesson plan." AuthorHello! Thanks so much for checking out our classroom web page! Check out our pictures of what we are learning in the classroom! Archives
August 2017
Categories |