Hello May :)

The school year is flying by.  Our class countdown has us at 35 days left of school.  Over the next few weeks, we will be reviewing many of the skills we learned this year and getting prepared for third grade.

Our essential question this week was "What do myths help us understand?"  We read myths about the bluebell flower and the fir tree.  In our small groups, we read stories about Greek gods.  We practiced finding the theme of the story.  We also reviewed how to reread a story to answer questions.

The students were introduced to multiplication this week.  This is just an introduction as they will be expected to learn their multiplication facts in third grade.  We really want the students to master their addition and subtraction facts this year so we continue to practice them as well.

This week in science we continued to learn about the rainforest.  We learned that the rainforest has four layers.  The students started making a model poster of the rainforest.  These will include some of the animals that live in each layer as well.

The students also started doing research on a rainforest animal for writing.  Each student in second grade was assigned a different animal.  We used our computer lab this week to reasearch the animal and its habitat, description and other interesting facts.  Next week, the students will use that information to write a report about their animal.

Today we had a special assembly to cheer on the students about to take the state test.  There were some fun surprises and we had a lot of fun.  We also wrote letters to our sixth grade "book buddies" to wish them well. Good luck...you can do it!!

Have a nice weekend.