Sticky-note Opinion Writing

We started our opinion writing Monday. We started our lesson by writing a piece together. Then they used the same topic and a graphic organizer to create their own opinion paper. Today we used sticky-notes to colorcode the parts needed in our opinion papers. The kiddos had to pick whether they liked Christmas or Halloween best and then give 3 supporting reasons for their opinions. The sticky-notes helped get their thoughts in order and organize their rough draft. Tomorrow, we will create our final draft! 

Feb. 2-6

This week we are reading all about Abraham Lincoln. We are going to learn about timelines (sequencing events in Abe's life). We are also learning about the oo, u sound (like in book and put). We will write opinion papers in writing and adjectives in grammar. In math we are continuing our lessons with 3-digit addition and subtraction. We will take the skills we have learned from previous chapters and apply them to these lessons.

Spelling Words:

cook
wood
push
book
stood
July
pull
hood
full
shook
brook
put

Vocabulary Word:

smooth
vine
harvest
bumpy
root
soil
fruit

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday, Feb. 10- Jack Hartmann Concert
Monday, Feb. 16- No School- Presidents' Day

Happy Groundhog Day!

Did you want the groundhog to see his shadow or not? I didn't! I was hoping to have Spring arrive early! The students got to vote on their prediction for Punxsutawney Phil! Most of the kids wanted him to see his shadow; they wsnt snow. They also completed a writing for why they did or did not want Phil to see his shadow.

It's the 100th Day of School! Whoo Hoo!

It has been 100 school days since we started 2nd grade! We are having a blast!  All day long will be filled with 100 day acitvities:) 

Here are some pictures so far:

We are having a silly day! 

We are 100 days smarter! 

Friday Funday!

We had a Friday full of fun activities! The kiddos continued their Penguin research, this time using the iPads for a QR Code web quest! The students graphed skittles and of course, ate them! They also created graphs using the survey data collected earlier in the week. 

The students used Post-it notes to create a "can-are-have-need" poster. 

  

Graphing Galore!

We had so much fun creating a bar graph using Froot Loops! The kiddos found the graph we started with wasn't big enough so we made our own. 

Penguins!!

We are beginning our study on penguins. The kiddos will begin their research by reading/listening to nonfiction stories from PebbleGo! about different types of penguins! Here are some pictures of their research...