I'll Huff and I'll Puff...

This week in science the students were given "The Three Little Pigs House Design Challenge."  We watched a short video of The Three Little Pigs story and discussed the materials and their properties that the pigs used to build their houses and why the wolf could easily blow down the straw and stick homes.  The students were placed in groups and the groups were given either straw (drinking straws), sticks (craft sticks) and bricks (marshmallows) to build their house.  The houses had to be able to withstand the wolf (our school nurse's hair dryer) blowing on it for 30 seconds.

The results were:  the stick house lost a few shingles off the top but held its ground, the straw house got blown away, and the brick house was blown a little off its foundation but was able to hold together.

This week in reading and writing we focused on things in nature and how they excite us.  We read several poems about nature like snow, rain, giant trees and meadows.  We took a nature walk around school to find ideas in nature that would inspire writing some poems of our own.  The students enjoyed the freedom or poetry writing and are excited to make their poems into a book of their own.

In math, we practiced adding three digit numbers with regrouping and then began subtracting three digit numbers as well.  Next week, we will be practicing subtraction with regrouping with three digit numbers along with subtracting across zeroes.  

Mrs. Taylor has been teaching the students about land, air and water pollution in social studies.  They are learning about the consequences of the pollution and how it affects people and animals.

With the nice weather this week, we took some time out of our busy second grade schedule to enjoy our new playground.  

Have a great weekend!!