Ramona Quimby

Today we started listening to and reading Ramona Quimby, age 8 by Beverly Cleary.  Each student has a copy of the book and we are listening to it being read on a cassette tape.  We will listen to one chapter a day.  Everyone seemed to enjoy it very much!  Ask your child about the characters in the book and what happened.  

Monday

Today's highlights:

1.  We started talking about Haiku Poetry.  We read a book that is a series of haiku poems that tell a story.  Ask you child about the story!  We also talked about the haiku form and wrote a poem about the sun!

2.  We started reading our last read aloud for the year!  Ask your child who we met and who is telling the story.

3.  We read and prepared for our science test on plants!  We read our book that goes with the unit.

We also had recess/break today!  It was a beautiful day to be outside!

Week in Review

We have been learning so much in the last week!  On top of all the learning, we also prepared for our Second Grade Concert!

Here is a quick review:


Last week, we worked on learning about homophones.  We made a "pair of pears" to illustrate two homophones.  

All this week we worked on a special art project with Mr. Nelson.  He taught us about the three  main types of trees in Minnesota and then we painted one kind - the birch tree.  It was a multistep process that took a few days.  Ask your child about the process.  The finished products will be on display at the Festival!

Yesterday we performed our first concert for the entire school and our parents.  It was a busy week preparing and learning our places in the gym and on the risers.

We loved performing!  It was so much fun to sing and play instruments.  Some of us had special jobs like announcing songs or doing sign language.

At the night concert everyone was so dressed up.  We all looked beautiful!

On Friday we participated in the All School Clean Up!  Our job was to sort lost and found items and make the multipurpose room more beautiful.  We got to work with our buddies.  At the end of our time we enjoyed a snack.

Outside Break and Bulbs

Today we had snack break outside!  We ran and played with friends!  It was a beautiful day!

We also learned about bulbs.  We know some important facts about bulbs.  We planted two bulbs!  We also learned about how plants can start (seeds, bulbs, cuttings or rhizomes.)

Potatoes with Ms. Kath

Today we went to learn about potatoes and how they grow with Ms. Kath.  Ask your child what he/she learned!

Plants and Switching

Yesterday we went to Mr. Nelson's room to learn about plants we eat!  He shared this book with us.  Ask your child what he/she learned and what is special about this book.

Today we went to learn about the plant life cycle with Miss Olson.  Students made this picture of the plant at four different stages.  Ask your child about what he/she learned.

Mowing and Oreo Writing

Today we had to mow our grass!  It was so long and we knew it wouldn't last the weekend.  We carefully carried our scissors and grass cups and went outside.  We are watching to see which type of grass will grow back.

We having been talking about fact and opinion and how to write our opinion.  Today we talked about writing a paragraph to explain our opinion.

We talked about how to remember what to write:
O - Opinion
R - Reasons
E - Evidence
O - Opinion (restated)

As a class we wrote about the best thing to do at the beach.  I think we are dreaming of summer!

We had to enjoy the real thing!

Yum!

Last, with our partner, we wrote about the best thing to do on the playground.


Have a great weekend!