Thursday, February 26, 2015

Research, research, research!

We've been doing a lot of research in our classroom lately!  Our reading skills have improved so much this year!  We're ready to start using our decoding and comprehension strategies to learn new information!

We started by researching our presidents.  Students read an information card about each president and  filled in a bubble map with interesting facts.




After conquering paper-and-pencil research, we took our learning to the computer!  We used Scholastic's Underground Railroad website to learn more about the hardships of slavery.





Monday, February 2, 2015

Happy 100th Day of Second Grade!

We're 100 days smarter!

We celebrated our 100th day in style!

Our day started with a 100th day treat.

Everyone created gorgeous 100th day projects!









We also wrote about ourselves at 100 years old (class consensus is that we're going to be gray-haired, walk with canes, and tell long stories to the neighborhood kids).  In the afternoon, the three second grade classes rotated through all 3 classes for different 100-themed activities.  In Miss Knapp's classroom we sorted, counted, and graphed 100 Skittles.  In Mr. Murphy's classroom we built towers with 100 plastic cups.  In our classroom, we did different activities for 100 seconds (push ups, writing word wall words, subtraction facts, connecting cubes, stacking cubes, jumping jacks, and reading sight words).  We learned that 100 seconds is longer than we thought it was!

Happy 100th day!  Only 76 left until we're 3rd graders!