Our "Annual Second Grade Bat Cave Day" was a huge success!!! (Thanks to incredible parent and grandparent volunteers!!) We have been all about bats the past two weeks and making bat caves is the perfect way to make our learning even more hands-on and FUN!!!
After we made our bat caves, we made "Fruit Bat Kabobs." They were delicious!!!!!
What a fun filled day!!!! Thank you to all of our families for your help and donations!
We are all about using different addition and subtraction strategies in our classroom right now. A BIG one that we are practicing a lot is making ten to add numbers. We used Skittles last week to practice this skill. Food always works!!!
We LOVE Henry and Mudge books!! We have been using them to study various reading strategies and for our first opinion writing. To help with this first opinion writing we wrote all about Mudge and did this cute craftivity (from Amy Lemons).
We are also learning about verbs and how they are action words. We used superheroes to make this learning stick.
In math, we are learning various addition and subtraction strategies. We are all about "Doubles" and "Doubles +1" right now. To help learn our doubles, we made these gum ball machines (from Saddle Up in Second Grade).
We did our first day of Read to Someone and it was a success!!! The children were able to maintain stamina for 6 minutes the first try and ten minutes the second try. I love Read to Someone because it is an excellent opportunity for the children to practice their fluency and work collaboratively to check for understanding.
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