Second Grade Language Arts
                         
                                  Reading Molly's Pilgim
                                                   and 
                                   Crafting a Pilgrim Doll

Ms. Orlando's Homeroom

Ms. Roessler's Homeroom

2nd Grade

 LANGUAGE ARTS 

*DICTIONARY SKILLS*

*WORD STUDY*

                 

2nd Grade's Parachute Performance

                                       

                            Ms. Orlando's Homeroom

                   Mrs. Roessler's Homeroom

        HALLOWEEN FUN in 2nd Grade!

      

Incredible Insects!

To begin our study of insects, we looked at pictures of small animals and tried to determine which ones were insects. For several of them it was hard to tell, so we looked at a number of insects encased in plastic and discovered some characteristics they had in common. We found that they all had 6 legs and 2 antennas.

We closely examined crickets and learned some surprising things! You can tell female crickets from male crickets by the egg laying tube on their abdomens. Did you know that crickets breathe through their abdomens and have their ears behind their front knees?

Going outside on our campus for an insect hunt was fun! We also found many interesting insects to observe. We took pictures, released our captives back into nature, and then we tried to identify our insects from their pictures.

From the Library

Second grade girls have been traveling the world in Library class. We started off with Pretty Salma, a Red Riding Hood tale set in Ghana. Ask your daughter about similarities and differences between this version and others they know.  We then jumped into Timothy Egan’s Dodsworth series.  Dodsworth and the Duck visit New York, Paris, London, Rome and Tokyo. We were able to squeeze a little geography into our discussions around the circle. We figured out what big cities they could go to next, in countries and continents other than those they’d already visited. We followed up with another book by Egan, Burnt Toast on Davenport Street. Ask you daughter about the magic fly, the toaster turning into a squirrel and the dogs turning into toasters.