How do Plants Grow and Change?

In Science we have begun learning about the life cycle of plants. Today we enjoyed seeing the following video clips which are time lapse snippets of plants growing and changing. How cool?!

We Are Published Authors!

Last week, we celebrated the end of our Personal Narrative writing unit by having a PUBLISHING PARTY! After many weeks of writing stories about our own lives; each student published their best piece. During our publishing party, six students shared their finished piece with our class.

We ate popsicles and cheered on our fellow classmates while they stood tall and shared. We are so proud of ALL of the authors in our classroom. Check out our hallway to see your child's personal narrative piece hanging up!

Here is a sneak peek into our classroom during our publishing party. Our very own "J" is reading her personal narrative piece. Enjoy!

You can also check out another class favorite by listening to Lexie's story here:

Open House!

Thank you to all of our beloved families who joined us for Open House last night! It was wonderful getting to see the kids excited faces as they shared a piece of their world with you. We loved being introduced to all of you too. Hopefully, you enjoyed your time exploring the classroom and seeing pictures of our day. Check out the video below if you missed it, or are interested in an encore presentation.



We are truly looking forward to an EXTRAORDINARY school year!

The Nature of Science

Over the last two weeks, we have been learning what is takes to be a Second Grade Scientist. We have experimented with our five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste) to discover and make observations about simple things in our world. We conducted a lab where we thought deeply what we could learn by making observations about a banana. This lab was followed up by learning about the difference between an observation and an inference. Ask your little scientist to explain the difference!

Toward the end of last week, we began our new unit of study in which we will be learning about the Earth's structure... soil and rocks to be more exact. We started our investigations by wondering the question, "What is soil made of?" Our first inquiry had us combing through a pile of dirt from Miss Thomson's yard.

We were able to see many different things hiding in it, such as rocks, little bugs, mulch, leaves, little plants, and even a seashell! The next day we compared four different samples of soil including topsoil (dirt from Miss Thomson's yard), potting soil, sandy soil, and clay.

Check out some pictures below, showcasing our scientist skills:

making observations

using hand lens to zoom in

sampling the samples

using our sense of touch

recording observations in our Science Notebook

recording comparisons in our Science Notebook