It’s been a fantastic full week in Second Grade! During our time together we’ve really focused on our classroom routines and procedures, learning responsibilities through class jobs, enjoying specials, and building excitement in each unit of study!
The Start of the Year
To start the year students worked on self-portraits, helped friends measure their height with string, wrote a letter to their future selves, created their class promise and shared their Hopes and Dreams for the new school year. We tucked away our self-portrait, string height, and letters to our future selves till the end of the school year and we cannot wait to see how much we have grown all around! As a class we discussed the purpose of a class promise and worked together to write our very own after discussing what was important for us to be successful in the classroom. At The Cooper School “Hopes and Dreams” is a way for our students to make a goal they are looking forward to achieving this school year. Second graders each came up with their own hope and dream and we cannot wait to show them to you at curriculum night!
Reading a Graph
Second Grade started off their week recording each classmate’s birthday. After collecting data we created a bar graph of our birthdays. A bar graph is a picture that is made up of bars with different heights. Each bar represents a different category. The height of each bar can tell us how often something happens or show us the number of items we have for each group. As a class we used our birthday bar graph to compare data. Students learned which month had the most birthdays, which month had the least number of birthdays, and which months had no birthdays.
Water and Climate
This week we jumped right into science with lots of experiments. During this unit of science students will be focusing on water and climates. We experimented with water on different surfaces and with water on a slope. Second graders learned that water bubbled on wax paper, soaked into paper towels and paper, and slid off of foil. When we experimented with water drops on a slope we learned that you needed to use more than one droplet of water for it to slide down. This is because of surface tension. Second graders love science and we cannot wait to see what other experiments we will get to discover this year!
Small Moments
Students have been enjoying digging deep into their summer memories and pulling out their favorite small moments. Using these small moments second graders have written small moment stories. A small moment story is a personal narrative that focuses on a specific, meaningful moment in a person’s life. Our writers enjoyed listening to small moment stories written by their favorite authors and sharing their own small moment stories with each other.
