It was really nice seeing so many of you at our annual Best of Heights Night. I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the hard work your child has done. It was great to see so many proud faces as the students showed their parents around the classroom.
In math this week, we made a place-value book. The students practiced identifying numbers up to the ten-thousands place. We introduced using parentheses in a math problem this week as well. This is just an introduction to a skill the students will see again in the future. It is not a skill that many have mastered yet.
This week was all about the Earth. Our essential question is reading was "How can we protect the Earth?" We read a story about a class who used recycled materials to enter an art contest, about how a woodcutter turned an old tree into a zoo, and also about a girl who feared for the animals who were living in her local river because the factory was polluting the water. We focused this week on fictional stories that had a problem and a solution. We also practiced making predictions and confirming or revising those predictions.
We continued with the Earth day celebration by making Earth books in science. Inside the books are ways to help the Earth.
One of our traditions in second grade is making Easter baskets and dying Easter eggs. The students had fun trying to dye their eggs with two different colors. They came back from music this week to find some candy stuffed into the Easter basket they made.
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The countdown is still on...only 44 days left! Please enjoy your long weekend.
