Sunny Days of May

Beach Day!

What's Beach Day without POPSICLES?!

Second Grade Friends

Science

This week we finished up our light unit.

Second graders explored how light travels, how lights interacts with different materials and explored how to make and use a table to record observations.  We learned that light can be natural, such as from the sun, or man-made as in a flashlight.  Second graders then explored shadows and using mirrors to change the direction of light.

Second graders explored Shadows as part of our light unit.

Second graders also explored how light travels and reflects using mirrors.

Second graders collaborated to make the light go all the way around the lightbox using mirrors.

Some groups made reflected the light up to the ceiling and to the walls!

Four Winds

Thanks to Jenn Fink and Lauren Axerod for leading our Four Winds class on Bees last month!

Second graders learned about the importance of Honey Bees, parts of honey bees and their roles within the colony.

May Flowers

Well if the weather wasn't going to allow us to go outside to enjoy the flowers, 

we decided to make our own for inside!

I hope the painted flowers brightened the rainy May days!

Science

We have been using Lightboxes to explore how light interacts with different objects.

We learned that some objects let light through easily. These objects are described as transparent.

Others let some light through. These objects are described as translucent.

Some objects block all light. These objects are opaque.

Ask your child to give some examples of each.

Edutyping

Before vacation students logged on to Edutyping to begin practicing typing.  Students have done an amazing job keeping their fingers at the home row!  Your child can log in and ome through the UID website.

Artist in Residence

Lenny Yordan

Writing

We finished up our writing unit by publish our favorite poems.  Students worked with their partners to choose a poem, revise it and edit it.  We then typed our poems and published them in a class book.

Our class poem that we created together

We shared our poems with Mrs Cowan's First Graders 

who had also recently finished their Poetry Unit!