Polar Animals

We are learning about Polar Animals. Our classroom is looking like a winter wonderland! 

We also learned how blubber acts as insulation for polar animals. I didn't capture this because my hands were covered in fat!! Ask your child what a difference a little insulation makes! 

New Year New Goals

We started our New Year by writing some new goals for ourselves. The students did a fantastic job on these! 

Field Trip Fun!

After learning about different arty styles and artists, 2nd graders went on a fabulous field trip to MOCA and we even got to visit the Main Library. 

October Adventures in 2nd Grade

We have been busy this month! We have been learning about more of the 7 Habits and trying to really make them habits that we use daily.

We put Habit 4 into practice by doing this STEM spider web challenge.

We are continuing our research about spiders and our reports are almost done!

We will do some Spooky STEM science next week! 

Habits, Spiders and Handprints

This week we talked about Habit 2 from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids.

We talked about goal setting and and the importance of thinking about our choices.

We were also busy learning about spiders! 

Next week we will dig deeper into our research.

We read The Important Book and talked about what they think is important for others to know about them. Each of the students made a "handprint" that was unique and said something about them.

It was another Oz-some week!! 

2nd Grade Gifted 2014

We had a fantastic 1st day of 2nd grade gifted on Monday! We are ready for an "Oz-Some" year!! Please remember to sign the "Yellow Brick Road Map" each week.

Ask your child how they are going to put Habit #1 of The 7 Habits of Happy Kids into action this year! How will they "Be Proactive?" 

We have a very creative group of kids in our class! I'm sure you admired their amazing binder covers! 

We are going to have a great year! 

Second Grade Adventures in Oz

We had a super day in 2nd grade gifted! We are putting The 7 Habits of Happy Kids into practice this year. Today we discussed what it meant to Be Proactive. Being Proactive means being responsible, taking initiative, choosing your actions, attitudes and moods, and doing the right thing even when no one is watching. Here is how one student will Be Proactive this year:

We had fun with science today with The Balloon Blow-up. Ask your child what they learned.

 

We are starting a unit on spiders. Here is what we know:

Here are something that we want to find out: