Using games to practice telling time.
Celebrating Math Spirit Week and PI Day!
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Material Magic
Students learn about a unique building material: mud! The properties of mud depend on the properties of the soil it's made from. In the activity, Mystery Mud, students use models of sand and clay soils to investigate how the properties of soils can differ. They use their observations as evidence to classify each soil model based on whether or not it would make mud that’s good for building.
Material Magic
In this lesson, students examine how large structures like houses are built from smaller pieces. In the activity, Paper Towers, they design their own structures using an unconventional building material: paper! Students build towers using 3" x 5" index cards and paper clips. First, they build tall towers, then they are challenged to build towers strong enough to support a hardcover book.
Celebrating 100 Days in School
Students demonstrated how they were 100 days smarter by using engineering ideas to work cooperatively and make a creation out of sets of 100 different building materials!
Their S.T.E.M. creativity shined through!!
Their S.T.E.M. creativity shined through!!
Mathematicians sorted 100 things into equal groups
and created arrays of rows and columns.
and created arrays of rows and columns.
We started a new Science unit ~ Material Magic
In this unit, students explore the properties of materials and matter They describe and classify different types of materials by properties like hardness, flexibility, and absorbency, and they investigate how those properties are useful in meeting basic human needs (such as clothing and cooking). They also investigate how heating and cooling affect the properties of materials.
In the first lesson, students explore the different properties of materials used for clothing, such as texture, flexibility, and absorbency. In the activity, Mad Hatter, students use this information to design and build a hat that protects them from the Sun.
In the first lesson, students explore the different properties of materials used for clothing, such as texture, flexibility, and absorbency. In the activity, Mad Hatter, students use this information to design and build a hat that protects them from the Sun.
After working with the biography Snowflake Bentley, we created our own snowflakes.
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SPIRIT WEEK!
The student’s creativity shined during gingerbread house construction!
Learning games help reinforce the concept of double digit addition
Playing the Dreidel game after learning the traditions of Hanukkah
I continue to be impressed with the kids' creativity using the materials in the S.T.E.M. bins.
Students work on reading fluency as they proudly share the entries in their Reading Buddy Journals.
FUN RUN 2023
Friendship Web
We created a friendship web on Halloween during our greeting
at morning meeting.
at morning meeting.
Dance Break
The 2nd grade classes earned a dance break with the Fun Run Boosters
for doing a great job fundraising!!
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for doing a great job fundraising!!
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Applying real life math skills during a
PUMPKIN INVESTIGATION
Pumpkins were measured using standard and non-standard measure, weighed , lines were counted , predictions were made about seed size and quantity, and of course, we scooped out the guts and carved a face!
Thank you to all the families who sent in donations!!
Thank you to all the families who sent in donations!!
Trying to trick each other with descriptive writing
and mystery pumpkins!
It was a picture perfect day for a hayride!
MYSTERY SCIENCE~CORNMEAL CANYONS
In this lesson, students make hypothesis and investigate the causes of canyons and create a model landform using cornmeal. They then drip water over this “land” to observe how water can change its shape and to understand how, over long periods of time, canyons can be formed through a similar process.
In this lesson, students make hypothesis and investigate the causes of canyons and create a model landform using cornmeal. They then drip water over this “land” to observe how water can change its shape and to understand how, over long periods of time, canyons can be formed through a similar process.
Practicing fluency during partner reading.
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We use many different math games to practice place value up to 1,000.
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We are working on building community in our classroom. We are learning about each other by sharing our
ME BAGS.
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I received a grant from the Somerset Berkley Education Foundation to purchase S.T. E.A.M materials for the class. I created individual bins for the children to use by themselves or with a partner. I have been impressed by their creativity and teamwork!! 🤩🤩 Keep checking back for more creations!!
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