A Growing Place
Week #32 April 29-May 3, 2019

A lot of growing is happening in 2nd grade--from our plants to our knowledge of 3 digit numbers!

Check out the pictures below to see images of our flowering plants in our grow lab from this first week in May.  We are very excited to see the changes in these plants and look forward to welcoming pollinators and supporting their revival in our community.

We dissected astromeria flowers as part of our unit to build the pollinator garden.  After learning about the parts of the flower, each student carefully dissected their own flower, glued & labeled the parts in their science notebooks, and described the process of pollination.  We sound like quite the experts using the terms petal, sepal, pistil, stamen, pollen, and ovary!

To learn more specifically about germination, we designed an investigation using pole beans to consider what seed/plants need.  Ask your child about L.A.W.N.S.  We are trying to control the light, water, air and space for our investigation.

For math, we spent the week solidifying our knowledge of 3-digit numbers before completing an assessment to show our growth with these skills and concepts.  Our focus for the next few weeks will be on strategies for adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers.

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*PE Dance Assembly
*Subjects, predicates, pronouns, compound sentences and punctuation
*Final guidance lesson for the year and saying good-bye to Ms. Bedell
*Practice writing summaries of stories
*Board game time

Have a wonderful week!
Thank you for all you do,
Mrs. Hock