Happy Halloween!

We had a great day celebrating Halloween! I would like to thank everyone who donated pumpkins & carving kits, brought treats/drinks, and those who came to help out this morning! It is greatly appreciated and we couldn't have done it without you! 

In the morning we did pumpkin math with our parent volunteers. 

Then we carved our pumpkins with our grade 8 buddies! 

In the afternoon, we had a Halloween parade in the gym and everyone showed off their costumes. After, we watched Scared Shrekless with Mrs.Hampson's class! 

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October 26th-October 30th

Second Grade Goes Batty

For the past two weeks we have been learning about bats! 

First, we created a KWL chart and brainstormed everything we know about bats and what we want to know about bats. Then, we learned about informational texts. Feature Fish, from our Critter Cafe taught us that an informational text is a nonfiction book, it increases our knowledge and makes us smarter, it teaches us about a topic, and it teaches us facts (true can be proven). We also learned the parts of a non-fiction story such as the table of contents, index and glossary. 

The next day, we brainstormed everything bats have, are, and can do. Then, we made a bat craft! 

We learned the parts of a bat, what a mammal is, what a colony is and what nocturnal means. 

After, we discussed the difference between a fact, opinion & myth. We learned that bats can eat 600 mosquito's in one hour! We sorted 600 mosquito's on to 6 paper plates. Then we graphed everyone's opinions on bats. Almost everyone in the class thought bats were cute! 

If you are interested in purchasing any of these handouts you can purchase them on Teachers Pay Teachers.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bats-371119

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/We-think-bats-are-Math-Graph-Tally-Data-Summary-913800

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bats-Math-and-Literacy-Fun-Aligned-with-Common-Core-360558

Daily Five

This week, we started "Listen To Reading," in Daily Five. During Listen To Reading... the students go on RAZ kids using the iPads. First, they have to listen to the story, then they read the story and then they do a comprehension quiz. We have now learned 3/5 stations so we are able to have rotations! Since we are just beginning Daily Five I choose which station the students go to, but hopefully as time goes on the students become independent enough to make their own choice on what station they go to. 

Our stamina is now at 13 minutes! Good job grade 2's!