Friday, November 17, 2017

Animal Habitats

This week our essential question was "What are the features of different animal habitats?"  We read all about the coral reef and the many animals that live there.  We also read about the life of a sea turtle.  Did you know that a female sea turtle will go back to the beach where she was hatched to lay her eggs when she is an adult?

We finally learned how to do the "old fashion" way to do addition.  Keep in mind that we use different terminology when adding. Instead of saying "carry the one", we now say "regroup one into the tens." 

We are finishing up our Earth systems unit in science.  We will be moving on to working on the UNLESS contest for the zoo.  If you are interested to learn more about the contest you can go to this link...Philadelphia Zoo UNLESS contest
You may recognize someone in the video.  Last year, our second grade class came in 2nd place in our category.

We read a book this week called The Ugly Pumpkin.  The book is about a pumpkin that looked different from the other pumpkins and was left out.  It turns out in the end that he is actually a squash and is welcomed by the other squash.  We wrote about a time when we felt squashed and then designed our own ugly pumpkins.