Welcome 2015!

Second Grade News

Happy 2015!  We wrapped up 2014 with holiday festivities, decorating parties, visiting the holiday bazaar with our senior buddies, and performing in a wonderful holiday concert.  We were busy trying to fit everything in up to the very last day!  Thank you so much for everyone who helped make these holiday events possible.  This is what students enjoy so much about their school experience and adds a 'fun' detour from our daily routines.  

Our science unit is coming to an end.  We will complete the unit with a project where we are going to create a model of an animal dispersing seeds.  This will be a cumulative final project assessing the students' understanding of how seeds are moved across planet earth.  Soon we will begin a new social studies unit digging deeper into our understanding of communities.  

Our Readers Workshop and Writing Workshop took a holiday twist right before break.  We were writing holiday stories and brought in our favorite holiday books to share.  These were great fun to explore all of the different genres of literature and the students were very motivated sharing books they love to read.  The story/poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' was quite a hit.  This will be a nice lead into our next unit of study on poetry.  We will begin 2015 studying this genre.    

In math, we are learning so many new strategies to help us add and subtract.  This takes lots of practice!  Story problems are a difficult aspect of mathematics.  They require thorough comprehension and the ability to select important information to solve these types of problems.  We continue to practice these as a whole group, with partners, and individually.  We are learning how to show our work and explain our thinking.     

We have met with our senior buddies twice (sharing our Gratitude Granola in November and shopping at the bazaar in December).  We hope to meet once a month with our new friends.  This has been a positive activity so far and we look forward to our next activity with our buddies. 

We hope you all had a restful and relaxing time with family and friends.  All the second grade teachers a refreshed, relaxed and ready to begin 2015.  It will be another fun packed year of learning and fun!