Science & Art

Due to our recent listening unit on insects, and our field trip to the great outdoors. One of many living things we learned about is called a pitcher plant. A prey-trapping mechanism with a deep cavity filled with digestive fluid liquid/acid that drowns insects for food.

Students made their own pitcher plants and also turned the bug (spider) into a game. You will see these coming home today. Ask your child how a pitcher plant works??

 

End of Year Field Trip!

It was a bitter sweet day. It was the last of the big field trips and last hurrah before saying good bye at the end of the week. However, we had a BLAST while doing it! Camp Lake Ann was outdoor fun for everyone...adults included!

From wood games, to insect finds, to lunch, to a hike, a bog walk, and more...the day was perfect! The weather even held out for us and could not have been better. The bugs even behaved and stayed in their own surroundings, with the exception of a few caterpillars.

Our day was all smiles...with an ending of happy exhaustion....

Wood Games

 

Outside for a picnic lunch

The Bog!

 

(First of a Couple) Last Week Updates

Field Trip

This Monday, all of second grade is going on their end of the year field trip to Camp Lake Ann! We are leaving school at 9:30 and will return back to school around 2:30. Which means our time at camp will be from 10-2. I have a list of parent so far, if you would still like to join us and have not let me know please e-mail me by Monday. All parents joining are welcome to come to school and follow the bus, or meet at Camp Lake Ann. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thank you!

Reminders for that morning:

Bring a cold lunch (preferably in a paper sack)

Closed toe tennis shoes - NO sandals

Sunblock/bug spray application at home (optional)

Hats (optional)

Approaching the end!

We have three and a half days left of school!!

Last Friday you noticed students had a backpack full of goodies to come home.

Math workbooks: These can stay at home for summer work. There are many pages in there they can complete as foundational work for the summer. This will keep their minds stimulated and also fresh with math concepts ready to enter third grade.

CKLA unit 5: There are practice pages in the back, with some extra review pages in the front. This is also summer work to add to Units 1-4 that have already been sent home. Unit 6 is our final unit, however, we are not quite done with this workbook yet. Yes, we will finish just a couple more pages next week and then send this home for summer.

Math binders, reading folders, some math review notebooks (others are note quite done yet), and fluency folders were also sent home. Before these are possibly recycled, please look through, especially the math review and fluency folders, to see all the hard work your child has done this year. Applaud their efforts and let them tell you about the different content in math and reading that they learned and understood over their year in second grade!

More is coming home next week! Please remind your child to empty their backpacks for Monday, ready to bring home different items throughout their last week.

Thank you!!

Reminders...

Please make sure all outstanding lunch fees are paid

Please return all library books to the office or your classroom teacher

Please check the lost and found for any items your child might have misplaced

Keeping a Healthy Body

This week we had a special guest visitor! Mrs. McCain was in to teach us more about nutrition and different ways to keep our bodies healthy. She refreshed our memories on the digestive system, what healthy foods and drinks to put in our bodies, and also the cons of eating unhealthy foods.

Not only did we have a great discussion, with questions and answers, but Mrs. McCain also demonstrated how to steam broccoli and make it taste good at the same time. I will say the recipe she used was hit, and seconds were requested! The recipe for this came home...they are excited to help with cooking the next healthy dinner :)

In the end students were able to design their own healthy plate of food with the different food groups! 

More Teach the Teacher!

Another full and fun week of learning new and interesting talents, skills, how things work, and/or new and interesting objects! Here are some of what the students were taught this week! Loved the extra props and help from friends and family! The commitment to this project is very cool!

How to take care of a hamster

All about boats

How to do a back hand sprang and then walk & how to do a high kick in cheerleading

 How to train a dog with hand signals

 Magic tricks!

Teach the Teacher

 Students became teachers again! We are really enjoying the short lessons of learning from an array of topics. Today we learned all about the grouse bird, and also how they are hunted. We learned a couple paper activities: how to cut the perfect snowflake and how to fold a Darth Vader origami model. Then, our time wrapped up in our last lesson where our math skills were advanced. We were taught how to play Soduko! 

We all left for the weekend with something new learned from these fabulous four students!

All about Grouse!

Harrision was even able to bring his dad as the expert in the area. Thank you Mr. Heller!

 

How to Make a Snowflake

  Origami: Darth Vader

 

Soduko: 10 grade math