Harvest Day / Think Spring!
February 12, 2016
Fom the Second Graders and Mrs. H.
UPDATE: March 17, 2016
The second grade got to harvest their "crops" a second time today! We donated 2 bowls of lettuce and arugula to the kitchen for the salad bar. We would have had more but everyone enjoyed a green snack, a St. Patrick's Day treat first.
UPDATE: March 2, 2016
The second grade harvested their greens this morning. Wednesday was "Harvest Day" in second grade. We cut 4 bowls of greens-one each of: Bibb lettuce, Gourmet lettuce, Bok Choy, and Arugula. We gave the greens to the kitchen to use in the salad bar. What a successful farming experience we are enjoying with our tower garden!
The year is flying by and we are working hard and learning many things in second grade.
We recently learned seeds can grow without soil. Mrs. Hodges, the high school Botany teacher, wrote a grant for a tower garden and placed it in our room. With the help of her Botany students we planted lettuce, basil, arugula, and cucumbers. We planted our seeds in rock wool, added some vermiculites, and placed them on the tower.
We have been checking the pH and water levels in the tower with the help of her class. Recording growth and changes is done in our science journals. In one of our recent entries we wrote ... "we have beautiful green vegetables growing!" The second graders are very excited! We hope to plant some strawberries in the near future. If you are curious about what a tower garden looks like stop by and have a peek. We are very proud of having it in our room and would love to
share "our growing success" with you.
To celebrate the 100th day of school, we read several different poetry selections, did some creative writing about the number 100, and did some counting activities to 100. Second graders decided 100 was a pretty big number, especially if they could live to be 100!
"Love is ..." Was the topic for a writing activity this month. To a second grader love could mean many things including: help with homework, getting kissed good-bye, getting to stay up late, or taking out the trash, just to name a few. It was interesting to see what great ideas they came up with.
In social science we will be studying two of the most famous presidents, Lincoln and Washington. We are going to finish our study by each student reporting on another president and sharing facts about him. We will also write letters to President Obama in honor of Presidents' Day.
Practice! Practice! Practice! We continue to practice telling time, counting money, learning how to measure, and just really becoming good mathematicians! Our motto is "the more we practice, the better we get!"
The second graders continue to read for the Accelerated Reading Program. We have earned several rewards because we are reading, reading, reading!
