April 28 - May 2, 2014...Ladybugs & Butterflies

This week we started our butterfly unit by ordering caterpillars from Insect Lore to watch them become butterflies. We started by learning about the life cycle as well as some key terms...aka vocabulary words! We then made our first observation of them as caterpillars.

We started the week by reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We also used popplet to create a visual organizer of the items eaten during the week. We also read many other butterfly books.

In math we have been rocking fractions. We sorted fractions, then made a flip flap chart and the kids are excelling at fractions. YES!!!

I also attended a professional development about coding in the classroom. I feel like everyone does what I do in the classroom, but I was proven wrong again this week. My students love Daisy the Dino. I give them task such as, " Make Daisy walk backwards to the sun. Then touch the sun and walk back forwards." We then record our program code in our journals, since you cannot save them. I love coding, even in 2nd grade. All of my students have shown success in coding.

We started our ABC Countdown to the end of school. This week we celebrated A Day with a butterfly art project. Then B Day was bubbles. C Day was Career Exploration using The Career Zoo website. D Day was donuts and E Day was a Science experiment with mentos and diet coke. I cannot wait until next week!

April 21-25, 2014 - Earth Day & Arbor Day

This week we are studying drawing conclusions, measurement as well as Earth Day and Arbor Day.
 We read Ira Sleeps Over to discuss drawing conclusion. We also made a popplet to review the story structure of this book.

There was a huge push on vocabulary this week, so we worked with partners and by our selves to practice ways to remember the meaning of our vocab words. We also worked hard on identifying synonyms and antonyms.

In Math we are still working on measurement. We made Gallon Man which was a huge hit.

We learned about the 3 Rs of Earth Day, which are reduce, reuse and recycle. We also made a cute craft to help us remember the 3 Rs.

Next week we are studying making judgements, fractions and butterflies and ladybugs. We also start our ABC Countdown. I cannot believe we are in the last 26 days of school!!!