Cooper Village
This week, the second-grade class began our Cooper Village project. Students started by brainstorming what we observe in our community. We created a list to begin thinking about what will be included in our community. Next, we began talking about our wants and needs. Talking about things that we need compared to things that we want. Students had the task of choosing only 8 businesses to have in our village using their knowledge of wants vs. needs. We will be diving in and learning about all the important parts of our communities and how to be an important part of them.
One Word
Happy New Year, everyone! At the beginning of the new year, it is a Cooper School tradition that students and teachers pick a “one word”. Students choose one word that will set the tone for the new year. One word is all about setting an intention for the new year and how we can use the word in our life inside and outside of school. Second-grade students have begun thinking about their one word for this year by creating goals for themselves and making alist of things they want to achieve in 2026. Second-grade students have been discussing our “one word” for the whole class. Our class’s “one word” is RESPECT. We are proud of the second-grade students for how they communicated with each other to come up with the class’s “one word,” and we are eager to see what word each student chooses for themselves.
