This Week In Second Grade…

Dates to Remember: 

·       Happy St. Patrick’s Day Tuesday

·       Friday March 20^th is a teacher workshop day so the kids will not have school.

·       Artist In Residence Performance April 9^th 

·       Math 

This week we are continuing to work on subtraction involving borrowing.  We  are using manipulatives and doing some anchor activities plus our math book. 

·       Reading   

We are continuing to read about dinos and fossils this week with a story entitled “Why Did The Dinosaurs Disappear?”  We are also working on cause and effect, fact and opinion and comprehension skills.

·       Writing

    We are continuing to write various types of letters this week.  We are writing friendly letters, business letters, postcards, addresses, cards and invitations.·       Science 

    We will finish up learning about rocks& minerals and move on to study fossils.  We have learned about metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks.  We have walked through the rock cycle and colored in a paper about it.  We have done some rock experiments and made some of our own rocks.  We have sorted rocks into categories and tried to figure out properties of specific rocks.  It has been very interesting. 

Last week we met with the artist-in –residence and began writing a storyboard for our puppet story.  We picked out parts and we also worked with Mrs. Swain on our puppets.  We paper- mached the heads and picked out cloth for the bodies.  Next week we will work some more on them.