Wow! What a day! We have been starting to learn about plants this week and today we got to dissect a bean. Some kids were so excited about it that they are bringing home extra beans to show you at home. When you dissect your bean at home look for the three parts: the skin, the germ, and the cotyledon. We learned all about these parts of a seed and even drew pictures and labeled them. We certainly have some scientists in the making in our room!
We were also excited today because some of our beens that we put in cups and started watering on Tuesday have started to sprout. A few of them are peeking out of their skin!
We have begun studying geometry in math this week. We have had a lot of fun with the pattern blocks and the geoblocks. We even learned what 2-D, 3-D, sides, faces, and angles all mean!
Our writing this week has stepped up to the next level. We have three kids now who have printed out the words to their writing on the computer and are working on the illustrations. Way to go!
Reading during the last few days has been a lot of fun as well. We have been spending about an hour focusing on text-to-self connections and writing down what we are noticing about books. We really do have great thinkers in 2nd grade!
Because typing club has been quite the buzz in our room I have decided to open up another "session". I have asked Tanner, Kristine, Morgan, Ben, and Alejandro if they would like to join Typing Club after school for a half hour. They were quite excited and will be coming to ask you if that would be all right. Remember that Typing Club is a completely optional activity for the kids to work on their keyboarding and computer skills. The afternoon session will be from 3:15-3:45 in my room. This is in addition to the morning session and those kids will continue to come at the same time.
We had a great week and look forward to another awesome one next week! Have a great weekend!
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