Mrs. Vitullo's Second Grade
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Welcome to Second Grade!!

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Our China display for Culture Night
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Using Math games to practice telling time

VALENTINE FUN!

100 piece creations to celebrate the 100th day of school
Making arrays of 100 things!

Learning about China during the week of the Lunar New Year.
​ Happy Year of the Rabbit!

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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Making bird feeders for our furry and feathered friends.

Some matter is made of many materials working together. Students had to figure out how to assemble a flashlight correctly to make it work. As you can see, after a lot of trial and error, everyone was successful!

We continue to study the properties of matter. This week we investigated flexibility and buoyancy.

We started a unit on Matter in Science by learing about the 3 states of matter and properties. Our first investigation was a Cracker Lab!

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Students practice reading fluency by performing Reader’s Theater. Due to many absences before Christmas break, they were unable to perform their plays for the other second grade classes. After all their hard work preparing,
​they performed the Christmas themed plays for each other when we got back.

Using games is a great way to keep kids motivated to practice
​ two digit addition with regrouping.

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The student’s creativity shined during gingerbread house construction!

Raider loved the cookies and the kids!!

​A Labor of Love

Reading the recipe, understanding the steps, measuring the ingredients-a lot of work and love went into making dog treats for Raider.

💚Feeling Festive!!❤️

Local bestselling author Steven Manchester came in to read one of his stories,
A Claus Vacation, to the class. They were a captive audience!
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Learning about December holidays

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Major growth in our crops in the Hydroponic Tower Garden !
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November 22 December 9

​Students work both independently and cooperatively at daily literacy centers.

FUN RUN 2022

Local squirrels feasted on our pumpkins!

Theater games with Rockstar Ryan for winning the Thursday night challenge!!

IT WAS A HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

We had a busy day making a friendship web, doing a pumpkin investigation and enjoying a character parade!

We planted our seedings in the Hydroponic Tower Garden on November 1
Expected crops are 4 different kinds of lettuce and kale.​

It was a picture perfect day for pumpkin picking and a hayride!

MYSTERY SCIENCE~CORNMEAL CANYONS
In this lesson, students make hypotheses and investigate the causes of canyons and create a model landform using cornmeal. Then they 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.

Raider came for a visit!!

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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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