Summer Reading and the Roseville Library !

Today we had a special visit from the librarian at the Roseville Library.  She told us all about the summer reading program, Book-a-Wocky.  This summer kids can read books, complete a read-write-draw form on four books, bring it to the library and receive prizes.  The library is having a Kickoff Event on Saturday, June 8th from 10:00-3:00.  You can pick up your first set of read-write-draw forms at the event.

Be looking for information in the Wednesday folders soon!  If you would like to know more, click here to be connected to the Roseville Library webpage.  It sounds like a wonderful opportunity !

Our Week

 Monday - Our plants continue to grow.  We also had to mow our grass.  We worked on our Haiku poems and torn art pictures.

Tuesday - We did research about the Bald Eagle and Great Seal in the library with Mrs. Bachhuber.

Wednesday - Our last concert practice before the real thing!  Our class got to help move the instruments into the gym.

Thursday - Concert day!

Friday - We wrapped up the week with a visit from Nurse Jones who taught us about taking care of our teeth.  We even got our very own toothbrush!

Our Week In pictures!

Here are some pictures from our week!  We are very busy, but managed to have some fun along the way. 

Monday:

Our grass before and after we cut it.

 We are cutting our grass !

We earned extra recess time with friends!

Tuesday:

We cleaned a section of the school yard to celebrate Earth Day.

Our brassica plants are really growing!

Studying new information about plants.

Como Zoo and Conservatory

Today we went on a field trip to Como Zoo and Conservatory.  We learned that plants help us by giving us oxygen, food,  medicine and nutrients.  We help plants by making sure they have enough sunlight, giving a place to grow, giving them space, water and air.

Plant class

Making bath salts

Here are a few of the entries from our Special Times in Second grade books.  It is always a sign of a good field trip when they have lots to write about and draw!

The seeds have been planted!

We are very excited to watch our plants grow.  We have learned that plants need water, sun, air, space and soil. 

April 18th - We planted our brassica seeds.  We did this in small group with Ms. Anderson.  We had to get a little air into the soil before we planted the seeds.




We also planted our grass and alfalfa seeds.  We will watch these plants grow and compare and contrast their growth.

April 22nd - Even though we did not have school our plants were growing!

April 22nd - Here are the grass plants!  They are really growing fast.  We noticed you can see the roots growing down and making a spiral at the bottom of the cup.  They really enjoy the sunshine!

Making our first observations

Busy Week !

We have been so busy this week!  Here are a few highlights:

We started a new read aloud this week.  We are reading Clementine by Sara Pennypacker.  We love it!  Clementine is always getting into situations that do not go so well for her.

Thursday - We continued learning about multiplication by practicing fact families and cutting out fact triangles for multiplication and division.















Friday - We had the chance to play a game on the smartboard with Ms. Olson's class.  We reviewed contractions, compounds words, synonyms, antonyms and vocabulary.  It was lot of fun and we played a good game!

Friday afternoon was another chance to use the iPads to practice math.

















We also planted our brassica seeds and grass.  Be looking for a post about that next week!

Math Fun Friday!

We have worked very hard this year learning as much math as we could.  We are almost to the end of our  math series!

From now until the end of the year, we will be using Friday to do some extra math learning and play math games or use the iPad for math games.  We are able to check out 5 iPads at a time from the library.   I have the kids work in pairs on the iPads to do math games that are designed to practice skills.  Students who are not using the iPads are playing math games or working on puzzles.