Last week, in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday, we read The Cat in the Hat. We then wrote about what we would do if those two silly characters, Thing 1 and Thing 2, came to our house. We wrote about they would get in, what they would do while they were there and how we would get them to leave.
This week we were introduced to several folktales. We read some fun and silly stories that tried to explain something in nature to us. In one story "Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky", the Sun wanted to invite his friend, Water, to his house. Sun and his wife, Moon, thought that was the right thing to do since Water was their friend. In the end, Sun and Moon could not live in their house because Water took it over, The lesson of the story was about how important it is to have a friend.
We finished up our Measuring unit today with a Unit Test. These will be sent home to be signed and returned. Next week we will be starting on Time and Money.
We started working on our class book this week. You should have received an order form for the book. If you are not interested in purchasing the book, please just check no and return the form. This needs to be returned in order for us to receive a free book for the classroom. The title of the book will be How To Be a Good Second Grader.
In social studies we started a unit on How Communities Change. In one of our lessons, we started with a new, small community where people were beginning to move. These people had several different needs. Therefore, we had to add things to the community. For example, there were people moving in who had children. So, we added a school and a playground.
In science, we mixed liquids. We predicted what would happen when we mixed shampoo, oil and glue to water. Many of the students were surprised to see that the oil and water did not mix.
Have a nice weekend. Looks like rain...at least it's not snow.
