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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Candy Color Graphing

Second graders got a bag of Skittles to make predictions about color and number of candies within a bag. Sweet math!

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Saturday, May 11, 2013

The first eaglet hatched in our eagle nest! Yesterday while we were at school we saw a hole in one of the eggs and the baby moving inside. After a few hours there was another hole and the baby was working hard to hatch. The second egg has a crack and should hatch soon-maybe for Mother's Day!

Friday, May 3, 2013

Our Garden Bed is Planted!

Photos courtesy of Amelia

Monday, April 22, 2013

Robotics!

Today kids began to make robotic birds with legos. They worked with a partner and were given a special set of legos that included a USB cable, a motor and gears. They followed a set of instructions and together built 2 birds that will be programmed to move. Next week we meet in the computer lab to see the birds sing and move!

What We're Up To

Reading-every group is finishing fairy tales and beginning to read fables

Writing- blog writing (some kids have written their own fables), fairy tales, timeline writing for May's events

Math- continuing to add with regrouping and subtract with borrowing (using groups of tens), expanded notation of large numbers, reading and recording data on graphs

Social Studies-continuing our study of maps and learning about borders between states, countries and continents

Science-eagle observational writing (now the second egg has hatched!), beginning a unit on force and motion this week

Handwriting- writing more neatly, self-correcting backwards letters and numbers, concentrating on capitalization and punctuation

Open Circle-working on kind, caring acts, being responsible for ourselves

Read aloud-Charlotte's Web by E. B. White and many fairy tales

Extra-reading fairy tales, writing kind notes to one another, discussing earth day, beginning to plan how to use our garden plot and starting some seeds indoors

An Eagle Egg!

The nest we had been watching in White Rock, British Columbia has been abandoned by the parents. We're sad but have found another nest to watch in a town called Harrison Mills, British Columbia. This pair of eagles live in a tall tree on a golf course. We hope to see these babies hatch soon!

Eggs Laid:

April 4th and April 8th

First egg hatched:

Friday, April 10th

We're still waiting for the second egg to hatch.

It hatched today and we got to see the baby eaglet trying to push its way out of the shell!

Second egg hatched:

Tuesday, May 14th

Sadly, the second little eaglet didn't survive but the first eaglet is doing well and is getting huge!

Garden Notes

We haven't done a lot of watering lately as the rain is taking care of that for us! We do have a new set of watering cans for the school gardeners to share as well as some trowels, hoes and gardening gloves for working in our gardens. We have harvested some strawberries in our garden and other classes have come out and harvested a bunch of strawberries from the larger strawberry patch. We want to pick them before the birds do! When the rain stops we'll harvest some more lettuce which is getting huge!

Our Eagle Observations

Ms. Bossman
Did you know that the female eagle is a tiny bit taller than the male eagle? by Anirudh
There are five types of raptors: owls, eagles, vultures, falcons and hawks. by Austin
It is getting a little lighter out and it is almost daytime for the eagles to come back. by Nataliah
The nest has little white downy feathers and evergreen branches. by Sally
Why are the baby eagles in eggs and not just born? by Aiden
The nest has sticks. It's a giant nest. by Cole
Sometimes an eagle will sit on a branch above the nest to keep watch. The eagles are arranging the sticks so the nest will be more comfortable. by Kylie
Many feathers are in the nest. Soon the female will lay the eggs. by Kirk
Eagles are raptors, nests are made out of twigs, eagles are brown and white. by Charlie
Their nest is in Canada. by Lamees
There are leaves in the nest. by Sydney
The eagle nest is made out of twigs. Some of the twigs are sticking up in the air. by Dinah
When it's morning for us it's night for them. At night the eagles go hunting. by Kate
Eagles have large eggs. by Amelia
They live off the coast of British Columbia. by Norah
The bald eagle has wings as long as your bed. by Gitalia
The mother eagle is getting ready to lay her eggs. by Richie
Nest is dark...no eagle eggs yet...feathers in nest. by Tyler
What do eagles eat? Where do eagles live? How do eagles fish? How do eagles eat? by Lauren
Eagles nests can be 20 feet wide and long. by Ian
What is the water called near the nest? Why are there whitish blackish feathers in the nest? by Daniel
This pair of eagles has used this same nest for many years. by Mrs. Davies

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Candy Color Graphing

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day!

Saturday, May 11, 2013

First Baby Eaglet!

Friday, May 3, 2013

Our Garden Bed is Planted!

Monday, April 22, 2013

Robotics!

Our class is on an eagle watch!

An Eagle Egg!

Subtraction Practice!

We Are Dancers!

Cat Alert!

Our Garden Grows

Garden Notes

Memories From Second Grade!

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