Fun Run!

Today was the Fun Run and despite the cold, we had a blast exercising as a class! Enjoy some pictures from our fun! 

Green Family Marathon

Congrats to Treshon and Martin who represented our class in the marathon today! Good job guys! 

Newsletter # 4

Class Mission Statement

As part of learning about the 7 habits and how to be leaders the class worked on creating our class mission statement. This helped us practice habit 2 and "begin with the end in mind". We started by independently answering a few questions to help us start thinking. Then, we shared our ideas as a class and picked out phrases that were important to us. After that, we were able to write a rough draft and make some changes. Finally Ms. Lopez typed our completed class mission statement. You can find our mission statement outside our classroom door and on the board in our classroom.

Putting together all our ideas

Rough draft of mission statement

And here is what will guide our learning in 2nd grade this year!

"Our Class Mission Statement

We are going to treat each other like a family. We will not bully others and will stand up for what is right. We will always try our best and be respectful. We think school is important so we can reach our goals, go to college and get a good job. We want to be leaders using our 7 habits. We want to celebrate all our learning this year!"

At home you can work on creating a mission statement for your family or help your child create his or her own mission statement, too! 

Newsletter # 3

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September Box Tops Challenge

Don't forget to collect all the box tops you can find! The class with the most in 2nd grade wins a prize!!

Math Fun!

The past few weeks we have enjoyed working together in math. We have been learning about standard form, word form and expanded form and also using place value blocks to show numbers. 

We worked on creating a chart to help us with our number words.

Then we played a matching game with standard form and word form. 

We also worked on building numbers using place value blocks. This group is working on building the number of their choice. I wonder what number it is? 

Class rules!

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A new year!

I am so looking forward to a new year at my new home, Green Leadership and World Languages Magnet Elementary! I'm sure this is going to be a wonderful adventure! 

Fossil Fun!

In research we spent some time learning about different types of fossils and what scientists learn about fossils. Here we are making the different type of fossils with clay and making our own special snack of Fossil Cookies!

Super Science Day Fun!

Yesterday was Science Day! (Laura) It was the best! (Levi) Our first class was taught by Will C.'s dad and was all about cells and chromosomes.(Alexa) Will C.'s dad juggled tennis balls at the end of class. (Robin) Will's dad showed us pictures of Will and his sister, Eloise. (Ivonne) We learned that there are 60-90 trillion cells in your body. (Will C.) We got to watch a little video about cells. (Hazel)  Next we learned about the animals that live in Durham in the NC Wildlife class. (Will G.) We played charades with different animals. (Nicholas) At the Science Fair we saw everyone's science projects. (Josue) Hazel, Lily, George, Will C., Arun, and Laura all did science projects from our class. (Lily) We had a scavenger hunt teamed up with a 5th grader. (George) In Animal Adaptations we learned about how animals adapted over time. (Arun) Seven people went up to use their tools to get food like a bird would. (Abby) In our last class, Snake Measurement, we saw Ms. Wall's ball python snake and learned that it had just eaten 2 rats. (Zelaura) Ms. Wall said that if we petted the snake's stomach we could feel the 2 rats and we also made our own snakes and measured those. (Hazel) The snake's name was Athena. (Levi) Athena was big and long and fat. (Angie) Whenever we touch a snake we should not squeeze it. (Zoe) Ms. Wall showed us Athena's scales. (Sandra) A ball python rolls into a ball when it is scared to protect itself. (Miriam) Our class had fun at Science Day! (Jesica) We had a fun day! (Charlie)

Innovative Instruments!

We were makin' a racket in room 311 this week during research! To wrap up our unit on sound we used all we learned to design and create our own instruments. The kids had a blast planning, creating and even composing songs all about sound! On Thursday we were able to share our instruments by performing our "Sound Songs". We heard great songs by "The Bunny Band", "The Pony Band", "The Wild Raptors" and others. It was so wonderful to see imaginations and knowledge hard at work!

Congratulations!

Today we had our Manatee Awards for the month of February. We enjoyed some dance, drumming and poetry. Congrats go to Lily for excellence in math, Angie for reading, Josue for manatee manners, Robin for science and Alexa for art.

Our class also got a Spanish award for positive behavior!

Also the PTA read-a-thon participants were recognized. Great reading Lily, Arun, Charlie, Angie, Zoe and Hazel!

Black History Month Living Museum

Students from our class did a wonderful job performing in the living museum during the black history month luncheon! They were celebrities for a day!