The hospital is open!!

Did you know I could perform surgery?  This was an exciting week in second grade. Surgery was actually performed in our classroom...Contraction Surgery. The students had a lot of fun learning how to turn two words into a contraction and Mrs. Taylor and I had a lot of fun teaching them!!

Meet the doctors:  Dr. Taylor and Dr. Wells

Meet the patients:

Our medical students watched as we performed the surgery:

After the surgery was complete, the students were then able to practice some surgery on their own. They received masks and gloves.  Their patients were then put into the hallway recovery room with Dr. Dennis (thank you Mrs. Moran again for making him).

In other news, this week we continued to study the work of our author mentor, Angela Johnson.  We practiced turning a tiny seed topic into a story.  We also learned how to use ellipses in our writing.

In Math this week we once again practiced doing number stories and uses diagrams to help us in solving them.  We also started subtracting two and three digit numbers.  We start out use Base-10 blocks but soon they will discover how to trade/borrow.  This is a difficult task for second graders so we will practice a lot in class.

In Reading, we continued talking about inferencing.  One of the ways we practiced was by looking at pictures and figuring out what was happening by the clues in the picture.  We are going to continue to work on this skill again next week by using several different stories.

In Social Studies, we looked the effects of pollution on our environment.  We continued in our study of solids in Science by observing properties like color, shape and whether it rolls or stacks.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the warm weather......

Dr. Wells