Week of February 24th, 2014

We finally had a full week of school! Despite the terribly cold weather, we had a fun-filled week! During STEAM we created a recipe for making high-quality play dough. Students cooperated by carefully reading the steps and measuring ingredients. The next step is for students to create advertisements for their play dough! They will be creating print ads and commercials on the iPads. In writing we continue to work on our "All About" books. Each student chose a topic to research facts and write a nonfiction "All About" book on that topic. Our math focus this week was 3D shapes. Students were able to identify and name 3D shapes and compare them to real world objects. As February came to an end, we celebrated with a Friendship Celebration/Pajama Read-a-thon/Popcorn party! We had so much fun playing friendship games and activities. We had yummy popcorn and enjoyed a movie during the afternoon. We also attended the Jump Rope for Heart celebration in the gym with the whole school! What a great week!

Week of February 17, 2014

We performed our 2nd grade song and dance, flash mob style, at our Community Gathering.

Week of February 10, 2014

We have been continuing to learn about solids and liquids in STEAM by mixing ingredients to make play dough. An advertising expert even came to present to us what makes a good advertisement. When we have to create our own advertisement to sell the play dough we've made, this information will come in handy! We have also been working on "how-to" writing.

Week of February 3, 2014

After so many days off for extreme wind chills, it was nice to be together for an entire week! The 2nd graders worked hard and are making great progress in reading and math!