Second Grade Photo Journals

The students enjoyed getting their photo journals yesterday! It was fun looking back over the year and many of them have changed a bit from the first day of school picture! 

Simple Machines - Levers

Our last science unit is on Simple Machines. The students will be learning about a new one each day. Today, they learned about levers. The experiment on levers had them try lifting a load of books and adjusting the pencil (fulcrum) to make the load easier. 

Book Clubs

The students have enjoyed book clubs. This week, as the students finished their book club they had a chance to complete a Book Butterfly. Check out their hard work.

3-D Shapes

The students are learning about cones, cubes, cylinders, pyramids, rectangular prisms, and spheres. They are learning to count faces, edges, and vertices. 

Literacy Festival - Author and Illustrator Jeff Weigel

OThe students are learning from another author and illustrator! He wrote Atomic Ace books and Dragon Girl. He taught the students about character design and how it fits with his stories. The students helped create their own super hero. They named him Gadget Boy.

Literacy Festival - Visit with a Writer/Illustrator

The students are enjoying time with illustrator Dan Killeen. He illustrated the book Tillie and Clementine Noises in The Night. He showed us several other books he illustrated and we're so impressed! Your child might just want to be an illustrator when he/she grows up! Right now, the students are enjoying his book called Derrick and the Dinosaurs and it features places around St. Louis like the City Museum, The Arch and more. 

Geometry

We just started our last math chapter on geometry. Today we learned about 2 dimensional shapes. Some new shapes we talked about were pentagon, hexagon, rhombus and parellogram. At one of our math stations, the students worked on some Tangram Puzzles. They are tough and with a little help or support, everyone completed a puzzle.