The Hives Thanksgiving Feast

We are planning on having a Thanksgiving Feast on Friday November 22, during our lunch time. Please use the link below to sign up to bring an item or to come and help

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C44AEAB23A5F85-thanksgiving


 
 

Light Energy

Show and tell in the second grade?!? Uhhh yeah!  And the kids loved it. 

I told the class that if they had anything that used energy from the sun could be brought in for show and tell. 

These are the things people brought:

A solar powered calculator

A solar powered flashlight. We were even able to see the difference in the light source when it had more and then less sun power stored up. 

Solar powered bobble head....and it's a pilgrim!  'Tis that season!

A solar powered oven!!! How cool is that!

 

Finding Communities with Technology

Kids these days are fascinated by technology. This is one of the very reasons I get so excited to use it. Last week when we talked about rural suburban and urban communities, we used the iPad an computer to walk down  the street in the middle of Time Square, we looked for or very own suburban neighborhoods, and even found some rural areas in the process.  

One thing I did find out when doing this lesson was that only about half the students knew their physical addresses. This may be something you want to teach them. You never know when they may need it. 

Sentences

One thing the student have been learning since pre-k is sentence structure. By second grade, your child should be able to construct a sentence that has a capital letter, spaces between words, ending punctuation, and is a complete thought. We continue to work on this skill in all areas of our day. We practice answering questions verbally as a complete thought, we construct meaningful stories full of wonderfully written and detailed sentences, we even write complete sentences when problem solving in math.   Does you child write a satisfactory sentence?

Word Power

Today during writers workshop we had a discussion about spelling and the words on our word wall. 

Every week I send home 7 words to be studied and practiced in multiple different ways. We also play games and work with these words during our school days. 

At the end of each week, I place the words we have been working on for a week on the word wall. For then on out I expect the students to spell these words correctly in their everyday use. 

Today we talke about using these words to help us slepp other words. For example. One of our word wall words is many. Well, if you can spell 'many', you can easily spell 'any'.  Having this "word power" will also help you spell the word 'ANYthing' the correct way instead of spelling it how most begin to spell it (enething). 

We will continue to strive to boost or word power and make our writing more readable to others reading it. 

Please know that student are docked points on their assignments for misspelled word wall words, no matter the subject (math, science, language arts, or social studies). 

Continue to work with these words in homework, and in everyday use.