Black History Projects

February is Black History Month and the second graders each did a report and project on one famous African American to share with the class. All of the reports were very interesting and the class got to learn about about 24 famous African Americans in the process. The projects that went along with the reports were very creative and informative! They displayed facts and pictures that helped the students to learn more about them. The class really enjoyed hearing about these famous people and the contributions they made to our country! I want to thank all of the parents for their wonderful help with this projects!

100th Day of School

Kindergarten, first, and second grade celebrated the 100th day of school together! The students rotated to 7 different stations that held activities related to the number 100! The students did such things as making a necklace out of 100 Fruit Loops, writing their name in 100 boxes, making a 100 day hat, playing games, doing 100 exercises, making a snack with100 treats, and writing in a 100 Day Book. Everyone had a great time! Thank you to ALL of the moms who helped out with the stations. Thank you also for all of the wonderful snacks sent in for our snack station. It was a huge success!

Christmas Party in Classroom!

The students had a great time at the Christmas party before break! They opened stockings full of surprises from their classmates and played games. The little snowman doughnuts from Krispy Kreme were a big hit! Thanks to Mrs. Roth and Mrs. Knapp for organizing the party!

Classroom Curriculum Information

Week of April 14-18

Reading

Story of the Week: Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope

Genre- Nonfiction: Personal Narrative

In this selection, Anthony Reynoso, a boy who ropes and rides the Mexican Rodeo tradition, tells about his life. We will be discussing similarities and differences in Anthony's traditions and ours.

Please continue to read nightly to keep the reading progress going! Each student has a take-home book in their home folder that should be read several times during the week. These books are stories that include the vocabulary words of the week.

Vocabulary Words:

dappled, exhibition, landscape business, ranch, thousands

Writing

We are still working on writing complete sentences, using capitals and ending marks, and staying on topic in a paragraph. Paragaphs now must include a main idea sentence, supporting sentences, and a closing sentence. A writing grade will be taken once a week. All paragraphs with editing mistakes will be returned for students to correct. This will hopefully encourage students to edit their paper more closely before turning it in. We will also begin writing stories for our Author's Tea that will be held in May.

Spelling Words

under, read, last, never, own, set, line, end, left, us

Note** These words are our last set of spelling words for the school year! For the rest of the year we will review all of our spelling words.

Challenge Words:

(no challenge words this week)

Math

Current Chapter: We are currently in chapter 18 which is titled Plane Shapes. We will learn to identify triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, parallelograms, trapezoids, octagons, and pentagons.

Social Studies: We are not currently doing a unit in social studies.

Science: We are currently working on our unit called People Grow and Change. We will learn about some of our major body organs and how to keep them healthy.

Reader's Theater For Johnny Appleseed

All three performances of Johnny Appleseed were wonderful! The students used great expression in retelling the story of the true American hero named John Chapman. Thank you for all of the wonderful costumes and coming to our perfomances! The students had a great time and are looking forward to doing another one in the spring!

Practicing for the Christmas Program

The second graders visited the Eureka High School to practice for the Christmas Program. This is why they did such a beautiful job the night of the program! Their performance put us all in the Christmas spirit!

Website Learning Links For Second Grade

Below are several websites that correlate with our 2nd grade curriculum in language arts, math, science, and social studies. These websites come directly from our classroom textbooks that we use. This is a fun way to review the skills that we are learning in class!

(After you click on the subject in green, follow the directions that are *.)

Langauge Arts

* Click on Reading

*Harcourt Trophies

*Click on picture of classroom reader

*Password = Roser

Math

*Click on Math

*Go to Harcourt Math

*Select book (Top row 3rd book from the left- it is red with a cat on the front)

Password= Andrews

Science

*Click on Science

*Click on yellow book with green & red frog

*Double click on 2nd grade in grade selector

Social Studies

*Click on the unit of your choice