Happy Friday, Happy Passover, Happy Easter, and Happy April Vacation!!
We have been busy in Second Grade the past two weeks! The students have been working very hard on their poetry and have started to put together their books. I know that they are excited to share them with you soon! The students learned how to write template poems and shape poems!! It's amazing to see how creative they can be! After vacation, we will begin our last Writing Unit which is on Informational Writing. This writing unit included library research. Your child will have the opportunity to come up with their own "I Wonder" questions that they would like to research in order to learn more about a country from which their ancestors have come from.
Last week we finished up our study of Africa by writing poems about African animals and this week we went to the coldest continent on Earth, Antarctica! The kids enjoyed learning about Antarctica and the fact that the only people who go there are scientists and that nobody lives in Antarctica. The children wrote interesting facts they learned and next week they will learn about the loveable animal... penguins!
In math, we are working on Unit 8 which focuses on Geometry. In the first few lessons, the children have described the attributes of 2-dimensional shapes and have identified shapes that have certain attributes while playing the game Shape Capture. The kids also had a lot of fun using straws and pipe cleaners to build various polygons. Finally, in our last lesson of the week, the children began looking at 3-dimensional shapes and sorted them according to their attributes. We look forward to continuing our Geometry unit after vacation.
I hope that you have a fun and restful April Vacation!
