Springfield Museum

Today was our field trip to the Springfield Science Museum. The students were treated to three classes on a variety of science topics. We started our day off learning about plants: the parts of a plant, what a plant needs to grow, and different products we get from plants. Students even got to plant five seeds of their own. I am curious to hear if any of the students’ seed grow. Please keep me updated and let me know if you have any success with the seeds. After seeds, we headed to a new classroom and learned all about water and the water cycle. Did you know that the earth is over 70% water? Did you know that of this water only about 1% is clean drinking water? Those are just two of the facts students learned today. After lunch, we switched gears and learned all about simple machines. Our trip to the museum was a great way to introduce the students to the science topics we will be covering in third grade. Be on the lookout for our science units to start soon! I was very proud of the behavior our students showed while at the museum!

News From the Classroom

In math students are learning the properties of multiplication. Students will be using these properties to help them solve more difficult multiplication problems. So far, the students have learned the commutative property, associative property and the identity property of multiplication. We will learn the distributive property later this week. Please have your child study their multiplication facts at home. 

In Writer’s Workshop we continue to write informational writing. Students have been learning tools authors use such as simile, metaphor, and personification to help make their writing more interesting. I am very proud of the work the students have been producing in writer’s workshop! 

If you would like to order from this month’s Scholastic Book club, orders are due on Friday.

If you have not sent in your child’s signed report card envelope please do so as soon as possible.