Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Cookies!!

We had a great time decorating cookies for the Boxes of Cheer!  Thank you so much to all the families who donated supplies and cookie dough. The cookies are beautiful and so creative. Thank you Meredith for being our photographer and sharing these beautiful photos with us!








Sunday, December 18, 2016

Snowman Stretch Challenge

On Friday, the kids participated in a STEM challenge. Working in small groups, they were challenged to build the tallest snowman possible, using only paper and tape. The only constraints were that it had to be able to stand on its own, it could only have three sections and must have a hat. The kids worked very hard to make a plan and to build their snowman. They quickly learned that some shapes are more sturdy than others and that sometimes your first plan doesn't work and you need to try something different (which is okay!). Check out some of the projects in progress and the finished snowmen!












Friday, December 9, 2016

More Second Grade Fun

On Thursday, we had a visit from two of our sixth grade friends, Anna and Lindsey. They taught our class about recycling here at school. The kids played a game that the girls had made to learn about what is recyclable and what is not.




Art projects are always a hit with this group of second graders. Last week we talked about perspective and learned how to draw snowmen from a "mouse eye" view. These beautiful snowmen are on display in the hall near the library. 










Today at recess I had a great time hanging with this crew! It was beautiful out today. So much fun!








Finally, a group of kids have been working hard to write and perform a holiday puppet show. They wrote their own script, made their own props and practiced together. Today they performed their show for all the other first and second graders!





Sun Projects



Over the past two weeks we have been learning tons about the sun. As a final activity, the kids worked in small groups to create a representation of the sun and to display at least three facts to show their learning. This was a very open ended task, kids could choose whatever materials they wanted to use and were creative in displaying their information. Once all the projects were finished, each group presented their finished projects to the class.









ECO 12/2

Last Friday at ECO we learned about animal gaits. Children played games moving like different animals. We learned that animals are either walkers, waddlers, hoppers or bounders. Here a few pictures of the kids practicing their animal gaits.






In class, earlier this week, we watched and discussed a couple videos about snowshoe hares. Up in the forest we continued this discussion with Amy and then she taught us how to build slash piles to help hares and other animals have places to hide from predators. 






We also checked out the Wampanoag village some of the students built during our thanksgiving celebration. A few of the buildings were still standing!