It's Already Winter Break!

Making perspective portraits

Hard to believe that we are already at the end of December, and that signifies that it's time for Winter Break! Despite frigid temperatures and seemingly endless days of indoor recess due to the bone-chilling cold, the kids took it in stride and enjoyed their days of indoor recess with games and fun activities. We were more active than usual with all the indoor recess, and the students enjoyed lots of GoNoodle action videos. They also enjoyed our final round of Art Adventure, thanks to our parent volunteers. They created their own creatures using model magic and other supplies. This week, we finished up quite a bit of content, including a science project on different kinds of weather, the moon, sun and stars. We learned about perspective in art and created a "catching snowflakes" self-portrait. Students had a contest for cleanest desk groups last week, and the winning group got to choose the class-wide reward for this week. Our Angelfish group won, and they chose cartoon-drawing. Students enjoyed this immensely, and it was wonderful to see how different everyone's Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Olaf from Frozen turned out. We had a lot of fun learning and cooperating together. I hope everyone has a safe and happy break!

Art Adventure creations

Olaf

Greg

More clay creations

Adding information to our science booklets

Indoor recess games

Look at all of the new things we learned about air and weather!

Up, up and away!

Students had the exciting opportunity to learn about various kinds of clouds this week, how they form, and what kinds of clouds produce which precipitation. We got a chance to even try and identify the various types of clouds that showed up in our skies this week. The kids really enjoyed the craft that we did. They now know the names of various instruments that meteorologists use to measure wind, temperature, and precipitation. We also had the wonderful experience of participating in all-school BINGO this Wednesday! At our last PEACE assembly, the school got the chance to spin the prize wheel for showing Jaguar Pride. The spinner landed on all-school BINGO, and the kids had a blast! There was a lot of community that we built through it, and lots of positive sportsmanship and fun to be had. We're looking forward to another fun week next week!

All-school BINGO

We're very focused on marking the numbers correctly!

End of November

Wow! It's hard to believe that we are already to the end of November and the end of Trimester 1 in second grade! After the long weekend for the Thanksgiving holidays, we got things rolling very quickly this week. Students got to create an art project with various kinds of pasta; the artwork was all very creative and different. Some students created patterns, others made pictures, and others had fun creating designs. In reading, students are learning more about our country. Ask them about famous Route 66, a road that spans over 2,000 miles through 8 different states in the United States. And in science, we talked about wind, clouds, weather, and will create a cloud project early next week. We also learned about thermometers, temperature, and took a measure of the temperature in our classroom and compared it to the temperature outside. We found that there was a difference of 36 degrees Fahrenheit. Brrr! Enjoy another long weekend!

Finding evidence in our reading to support main ideas

Art Adventure

What we know about clouds