April 9-13

Hello families!

This week in second grade we have been getting back into the swing of things in Room 105!

We read the book Otis by Loren Long.  The story is about a little tractor who finds his purpose in helping a young calf. We read the book and discussed character traits such as kind and compassionate. We also discussed the authors message of helping others. This book is the first in a series of picture books we will be reading over the next few weeks.

We began a new unit of writing on Monday. We will be writing poetry for the next several weeks. Students learned to look at the world with their "Poet's Eyes" to see everyday objects in a fresh new way. We wrote about seashells. We listened for line breaks and to hear the music a poem. We wrote down seed ideas to help us get started on our own poems. The students are enjoying this new unit!

We are continuing on in Unit 7 for math.  This week we worked on making line plots, measuring to the nearest inch and centimeter. We worked with yardsticks and meter sticks to estimate the length of objects in our classroom. We will be ending Unit 7 next week. A study guide for Unit 8 will come home either Wednesday or Thursday.

We have begun a new Social Studies unit called "Past and Present: the History of Walled Lake." We began by discussing history and what it is. We read the book The Keeping Quilt  by Patricia Pollaco. We discussed how history can be events from long ago or 5 minutes ago! Next week look for a homework assignment in which students will make a personal time line. Your child will put pictures and write words that go with the pictures to show events from each year of her or his life... Details to follow!

We have a field trip coming up on May 16th! We will be going to the Mill Race Village to see Wash Oak School house. It is a historic one room school house. Permission slips went home on Tuesday.

Lastly, we will begin a new Science unit on plant life cycles next week!

Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Scheck