Our Study of the Human Body in 2nd Grade!

Our Study of the Human Body on PhotoPeach We have finished our study of the Human Body in Science. We have learned so many interesting facts about what our body does for us. During our study we learned about the Skeletal, Nervous, Digestive, Circulatory, Respiratory and Muscular systems. Did you know that bones hold up our body, give it shape, and protect organs inside our body? As adults we have 206 bones in our bodies. The heart is in the chest and it pumps blood throughout the body. Our lungs are in the chest and we use them to breathe. Our brain is the control center of our bodies. Whew! So much information! As your child about our study of the Human Body.

Nonfiction Report Celebration

Today, the students became teachers and taught their classmates! Each student got to share their report with their table members. Then each table picked someone person to represent their table and each representative got up in front of the class and read their report to the whole class. Several other student had their name randomly drawn to read as well. Some of the topics shared: Art, Soccer, Puppies, Skateboarding, Baseball, Cats, Swimming and Running. Everyone had a great time teaching and learning! What a great celebration!

Here are a few of our awesome authors:

Make sure to ask your student to read their report to you!

Measuring Length and Time

Measuring Lengths and Time on PhotoPeach We have been gathering an understanding of the concept of length and how length is measured. Using a ruler as a standard measuring tool we are becoming familiar with the terms inches, feet, yards, centimeters, and meters as standard units of measure. During our scavenger hunt we were finding items that are about the same length as each sentence strip. The students had a great time sharing their strategies for comparing lengths. The Land of Inch was hilarious! Ask your child about what’s going on in Math.

Don't Be Fooled!!

It may have been April Fool's but in room 204, no one was fooled by any tricky homophones! :)

 

Here a couple friends that finished their April Fool's fun skills activity :)

Ask your friend if they know the difference between: 

- pair and pear 

- threw and through 

- sent, cent and scent

Remember, Don't be Fooled!!

Love,

Miss Harkins & Mrs. Lankford

Catapulting into Spring Break

As we continue with our informational writing unit, we remember all we know about science (force and motion) and about scientific writing (how scientist write experiments).

For this experiment, each team was trying to find out which ball (pingping or cotton ball) would go farther by using the catapults they built. We really got to work on our writing skills in both informational and procedural writing. Plus we had a lot of fun doing it! 

Check out a few pictures from our day of catapulting:

Ask your student what the team results for both balls were and if their hypothesis was correct or not.

Stay tuned to find out how the experiment went! 

Have a GREAT Spring Break!!!

Love, Miss Harkins & Mrs. Lankford

See everyone on Monday, March 24th! 

And the Experiment Continues....

And the Experiment Continues..... on PhotoPeach Our "New" wonderings and "New" experiments are "Wild". Our work continues with posing a question, hypothesis and conducting a "New" experiment. It was Awesome and so much Fun for all of us!

Wild Lab Report Writing!

Writers workshop is getting wild with some awesome science! Students are working with partners to create and write their own science experiments. We are studying the world around us, posing questions and hypothesis, conducting experiments and write up our results! 

We wrote up our first draft about a class experiment.

We used mentor text to help us understand and build a picture of what our lab reports could contain of and look like :) 

Now we are coming up with our own new wonderings and NEW EXPERIMENTS! :)

Check back with us to see how our experiments turn out. 

Happy 100th Day of School! Part 2

Happy 100th Day of School! Part 2 on PhotoPeach

Happy 100th Day of School! Part 1

Happy 100th Day of School! on PhotoPeach

Can You Write Like a Scientist?

Can you Write Like a Scientist? on PhotoPeach We are learning to write about Science. To write like a Scientist we must first ask a question about how the world works, then record a hypothesis, a guess, conduct the experiment and finally write about the results. We are on our way writing as Scientist does! Recording our procedures, conducting multiple trials and recording our results. We will analyze our results and finish with a conclusion. Stay tuned... more to come!