We found 410 seeds in our pumpkin!

Digging our pumpkin seeds out and counting how many seeds are in our pumpkins

Does a pumpkin sink or float?

Week of Oct. 22nd

Our Boys Town skill this week is Accepting Compliments.  Look at the person, use a pleasant voice, and say thank you.  We will be reading the story Turtle's Race with Beaver and working on r-controlled vowels and sequencing.  Language Arts will focus on singular and plural nouns.  In Science this week we will be doing several fun experiments with pumpkins.  Reminder: There is no school on Friday!

2nd Grade Super Heroes

We are dressed up as Super Heroes for Red Ribbon Week. Super Heroes just say NO to drugs!

Week of October 15th

This week we will be reading Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat.  We will focus on contractions, realism, fantasy, and sequencing.  In Language Arts we will be working on proper nouns, and writing a descriptive paragraph.  We are going to start working on our class book that we will be publishing.  It takes some time to complete this project.  In Math we will be finishing up our place value chapter and start money.  Please take some time to review the value of coins with your child.  They will be expected to count coin combinations to a dollar.  We are now learning about vertebrates and how mammals adapt to their environment.  Our Boys Town social skill for the week is making an apology.

Week of Oct. 8th

This week we will be reading about Tara and Tiree.  The skills we will focus on are sequencing, r-controlled vowels, and predicting.  Nouns will be the focus for Language Arts.  Christopher Columbus Day will be celebrated on Monday and then in Science we will be learning about spiders.  In Math we continue to work on place value and comparing 2 digit numbers.

Having fun learning about hissing cockroaches from Madagascar