Radical Readers!

Our second graders have the opportunity to join a reading club every month called the Radical Reading Club. In order to join, students need to read 24 books per month. Members in the club enjoy a prize from the school library, a pizza coupon, and a reward activity. This month our reward was free time in the gym. Check out all our star bowlers!

Holiday Party

Today we celebrated the upcoming holidays with some crafts, a gift exchange, and delicious treats. You can see how excited we are in the following pictures! We had a great time and look forward to the winter break. Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

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Everything Matters!

In Science we have been exploring matter. We learned about solids and identified many properties of solids, including rigid, flexible, transparent, and opaque. The children went on a "Property Hunt" to find things around the classroom that fit certain properties.

Earlier this week the children were challenged to think like engineers, and to build towers from their solid objects. Using the properties they know about each solid, they made decisions about where each solid would fit best in the tower. We had some impressive creations!

We also explored liquids this week. This proved to be quite an exciting adventure! The children were given 7 containers of various types of unknown liquid. They were to experiment with them by shaking, rolling, spinning, and turning them. We created ramps with textbooks and whiteboards to see which liquids rolled the fastest and farthest. Then we came up with properties for these liquids including foamy, bubbly, thick, translucent, and viscous! Want to know what these mystery liquids were? You'll have to ask your second grader!!

We are Money Savvy!

We have been working on counting coins and using money in math. This week we were fortunate to have a special guest from Johnson Bank come to visit our classroom to talk about practical uses for money outside of school. Mrs. Hinstorff taught us the importance of spending, saving, donating, and investing. We got play money and we had to practice using it in all four ways by shopping around our classroom. We LOVED the little piggy key chains she gave us. We feel like we are now a little bit more money savvy!!

 Makenna trying to decide where to use her money.

 Deanna is donating some of her money.

 Sam and Keegan are spending some of their money on a soccer ball.

Thank you Mrs. Hinstorff!

Holiday Concert!

We had our Holiday Concert on Thursday, December 2nd. The children did a great job at both the afternoon and evening performances. We had been working hard on the songs at school and the second graders had a great time on stage! We've had those songs stuck in our heads for weeks!

Farwell Second Graders!

I have had a wonderful time learning and teaching in your classroom these past several weeks. I will miss you all very much! Keep up the great work you have been doing in Mrs. Adams' classroom!

Sincerely,
Miss Drees