Our Class Pumpkin

To go along with our IB unit, Changes, we spent Monday talking about the life cycle of a pumpkin.   

We read Pumpkin Circle.

After reading the book, the boys and girls had to put the events of a pumpkin's life cycle in the correct order.

They thought it was neat that the cycle begins with a seed and ends with a seed.

Next, we read How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

We observed our pumpkin before cutting it open.  We made a list of adjectives that described it, measured it, weighed it, and predicted how many seeds we thought were in it.

I wish you could have heard the squeals while cleaning out our pumpkin.

They worked so hard to get every single seed.

They could not believe how cold the pulp was.

This is just some of the seeds.  There were lots more to get out!

Grayson's face is PRICELESS!

Cameron is not sure he likes it??

We left them out overnight to dry, so we could count them on Tuesday. 

We discussed all the ways we could group our seeds to count them :  ones, fives, tens, hundreds.....
We agreed to put them in groups of ten.  After the students could not agree on a total, we decided to group them by hundreds.  This made it a lot easier to get an answer!  We finally all agreed! 

Our pumpkin had 581 seeds!

We are going to leave our pumpkin in the room over the next several weeks so we can observe and document the changes that take place.

A Day with Mad Scientists

All the second graders got to visit 7 mad scientists to watch experiments about CHANGE (our next IB Unit).


My experiment involved a bar of IVORY Soap and a microwave!


I think every second grader was really amazed at what they saw "change!"


The children did a great job recording their observations! It was a fun afternoon!


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Cinderella

We wrapped up our Fairy Tale unit with this adorable bulletin board!


If I had a fairy godmother......

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Adjectives

We have spent a lot time studying adjectives!


The girls shared adjectives that describe their families.


The boys shared adjectives that describe their families.


We came up with adjectives and verbs to describe spiders and created poems!!!

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Student Council Elections

I was so proud of these 4 girls for trying out for Student Council. I loved their posters and speeches! It took courage to get up in front of the school.












AdriAnna and Emma were selected as our class representatives!

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Field Trip Shirts Are Here!

Shirts were sent home today with every second grader! We will wear these next Friday when we go to Burritt on the Mountain.



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Today's Daily Data

Are you afraid of spiders? EEKK!!!!! Shhhhh.........I am!





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Meet Our Class Representatives

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The Winner is......

THE BOYS!!!!!

The score to the no talking contest was....

Girls:  100

Boys: 152

We have been reading the book NO TALKING with our IB Unit, Express Yourself.  Through this book the children quickly realized their other ways to communicate besides just verbally.  

For 3 hours yesterday, the boys and girls could not talk.  However, if they had to say something, they only could say it in 3 words.  Every word over 3 gave their opponent that many points.  They could use hand gestures, facial expressions, post-it notes (which were all over my room), etc.  Needless to say, this was a HARD game for 2nd graders who LOVE to talk.  The poor team captains were worn out keeping track of the score.  However, they had a blast! 

Did you ask your child about it!!

No Talking Contest

Boys: 60

Girls: 34

Girls are in the lead!!!!!!

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No Talking Contest is in full swing......

Boys against Girls! Who will win? The boys are in the lead right now!

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Number Rolls

We started our number rolls today. Please ask your child about it. They were super excited about them today.

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Verbs

Today we talked about verbs.

We were even Verb Detectives this morning. The boys and girls watched each other and recorded the action verb that described each other. Example: reading, writing, sitting, blinking, drinking, etc.


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LOOK WHAT WE HAVE!!!

IPODS are in their hands, FINALLY!!

In their DOG books tonight, there are rules and procedures for your child to review with you tonight at home.  If you have a case that would fit the GENERATION 4 ITouch, please send it in for your child to use this year.  I only have 2 cases. 

FOLKTALES

We compared the Fables and Folktales today.  To get the point across how folktales are tales that have been passed down from generation to generation and can have many different versions of it, we played the telephone game!  Talk about a FUN time!  They had a blast.  

I started the chain by whispering a statement in a student's ear.  That student then took what I said and whispered it to the next student.  We continued this pattern until it reached the last student.  Needless to say, the statement was totally twisted by the time it got to the last person.  

Ask your child about it!  They were all smiles!!

Number one rule was that you could not repeat yourself.

We just might have to play again tomorrow.