Welcome New Second Graders!

Welcome second graders! This week I feel like I have gotten to know you a little better already and I am so excited to watch as you learn and grow throughout this school year. To give you parents an idea of what we have been doing in the classroom this week, here are a few things we have done!

To get to know my new students as well as for them to get to know their new teacher, we put together a "Guess Who!" game. This is just like the game "Guess Who" but in paper form. Students each wrote ten things about them that would help others guess which second grader is writing these things. Once students wrote these ten things, they glued it, as well as a picture of themselves, on a colorful piece of paper and these "Guess Who!" papers are now hanging outside of our classroom. Feel free to stop by and see if you can guess which facts are describing your child!

Something else we did during our first week of school was create "First Day of School Selfies" and "All About Me" posters. These posters included more facts about our second graders including things like their favorite color, favorite food, and their birth date. These posters along with their selfies can be found on a bulletin board in our classroom. Feel free to come and check them out!

Lastly, we began a science unit with our second and third graders about plants during our first week of school. In order to learn more about plants and how they grow and create seeds, we observed the seeds in two different types of fruit: tomatoes and apples. Students looked at each of these fruits and discovered that there are ways in which these fruits are different and ways in which they are similar. They observed the dozens of seeds found in a tomato and only a few larger seeds in an apple. Students loved this hands-on experiment in our classroom!

Keep checking our blog for more updates on the things we are learning each week!