Pink Hair!

Greetings 2^nd Grade families!

The past few school days have been jam packed with learning. Students have begun realistic fiction writing that links to the animal they chose for their animal report. We will be using Image Making to enhance our writing.

In math, we have been learning about fractions. We learned a fun song to help us remember what a denominator and numerator is. “How many pieces in a whole, write that number down below. How many pieces do you need? Count them, stop and write it on top.” Students also learned a new game called "Basketball Addition".

Moreland students met their I Love to Read Month goal of 2,500 books! On Friday, Mr. Bradley held to his promise of dying his hair :)

Students have been doing an activity that we do in the 3^rd and 4^th grade program, Neighborhood Bridges, called the Fantastic Binominal.  We tell a story together where the students add in the details and what happens next. Then, students have the opportunity to write their own. We use 2 nouns and a preposition to come up with the title of our story. Here is an example that the students did:

Whale Through Scissors

(2/28/2013)

Once upon a time there was a Whale named Lazy. He lived in the ocean. One day while he was swimming he came across a scissors. Lazy didn’t know what a scissors was so when he saw it he said, “What’s that?”. He swam up to it and touched it with his nose. When he touched it, it cut his nose! He started to bleed. When he got to the Whale Hospital the doctor put seaweed on the cut. Lazy couldn’t smell anymore. The lesson of the story was: If you don’t know what something is, don’t touch it.

The End.

Tonight, six of our students will be presenting their animal reports at the school board meeting. We will showcase the use of the Book Creator and iBooks Apps on the iPads. We are very excited to showcase the impressive and hard work the students did on these projects.