In Writing we read Oh, The Places You'll Go. We then brainstormed all different types of occupations. The students then chose which occupation they would like to be when they grow up.
We also read Horton Hatches an Egg. In this story, the momma bird Mayzie asks Horton the elephant to sit on her egg while she flies away and never comes back. Then when the egg cracks, Mayzie tries to get the egg back. We wrote a letter to Dr. Seuss telling him who we thought should get the egg.
In Science, in keeping with the Dr. Seuss theme and our solids and liquids unit, we made oobleck!! Was it a solid or a liquid?? It was surely a mess, but we had a lot of fun playing with it. You can make it at home with 2 parts corn starch to 1 part water (and a little green food coloring.)
In Reading, we continued with our money theme. We practiced learned about the prefix un and the suffixes ful, ly, less & er. We read stories and poems about money. We then took a reading test on Friday.
This week in Math, we learned about area. We find area in second grade by counting the blocks on the inside of a figure. We also learned about capacity. To help us remember we created Gallon Man or Gallon Girl. Pay special attention to the arms and legs.
Have a nice weekend...
