Light

Our essential question was What color is white?

 We made glasses and put in special lenses. 

Here is what it looked like looking through the glasses.

The scientist told us we could never look at the sun.

However, we could look at Christmas lights :)

Liquids

We did a science experiment with two identical glasses,

oil, water and a coaster.

When you flip them over, see what happens!!!

(A suggestion is to do it over a clear container- one that is big enough to hold

both liquids!- so all of the children can see)

Red Ribbon Week

We celebrated Red Ribbon Week during which time we

decorated bookmarks.

Each class had a winner!

Our mascot is a jaguar,

so our bookmarks said

"These Paws don't touch drugs!

Word Work

One of the choices we have for Word Work.

I only change my Word Work

twice a year.

As the Sisters would say

"Use as tools, not toys"

Here are two menus that I used last year.

I had students put this in their Word Work notebook

and create their work in their.

You might notice little * on some of the choices, 

those were the ones that the children would take photos of.

One of the things that I do for Wikki Sticks, is to have the children 

lay their papers over the top and rub a crayon over the top.

Keep your cool

Here is our traveling penguin reminding students to keep cool at school. 

This is the second grade one.

The penguin moves from room to room and the students 

are very excited to have them in their rooms!

It would be awesome if each grade had one as well.

Not necessarily a penguin though.

Our school follows a school wide program where we are

SAFE*RESPONSIBLE*RESPECTFUL

What am I?

I found these adorable books in a second grade classroom.

(Above the outside.)

(Below the inside.)

Moving West

I visited a second grade class and we created this wagon web. 

I made mine on the smart board and they recreated it 

in their writing notebooks.

They had followed a web quest to get the information.  I think I might try this even with older children.

They had a packet to fill out information and then used it to write paragraphs.