The Crumple Mountain Water Experiment is a simple, hands-on way to help kids see how water moves across the land. By crumpling up a piece of paper to make “mountains” and “valleys,” then lightly spraying it with water, children can watch how water naturally flows downhill. They’ll see tiny streams form, join together into bigger “rivers,” and eventually collect in low spots- just like in real life! This fun activity showed the students how the shape of the land (hills, slopes, and valleys) guides where water goes. 

Valentine’s Day & 100th Day Celebration:  Students enjoyed a day full of hands-on fun centered around Valentine’s Day and the 100th Day of School! Our 2nd grade “smarties” participated in several exciting Minute to Win It challenges, including stacking Smarties, building creative heart structures, playing heart tic-tac-toe, unwrapping Hershey’s Kisses with only one hand, and finding hidden conversation hearts. Students also took part in Candy Heart Science, where they made predictions about which liquid would dissolve the candy hearts the fastest — and discovered that soda was the winner! We wrapped up our celebration by making hot cocoa, enjoying snacks, and exchanging Valentines. Thank you to our families for helping make this such a special and memorable day!

Science: Second graders are studying fun things in Science! They made prototypes of bird feeders after studying what certain birds like to eat and how they like to perch. They learned how to: ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool. They are also practiced developing a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem. How cool did these bird feeders turn out!!

January Writing Project: The students have been acting as scientists and learning about writing descriptive reports to share their knowledge. They are working with their brain buddies to gather information about their animals and will be finishing and sharing their Animal Report posters soon!

December Fun! The students enjoyed our class holiday party where they had time to play with legos and compete in Minute to Win It Games. They also enjoyed our family donated WinterFest Mix (thank you, families), played Pin the Nose on the Snowman, and wrote spelling words in shaving cream. They all did a wonderful job at the winter concert and a special guest- Santa, stopped by for a quick visit. We also had our 5k Book Buddies join us for book reading and cookie decorating.

Science, Science, and more Science! The kids have had a blast learning about Matter by engaging in a ton of different hands-on activities! They created mini lava-lamps with our Book Buddies and created Oobleck (properties of both solids and liquids). They tested out if different items float, were waterproof, and/ or if they were bendy. They also used their five senses to classify different Halloween items into categories.

Homecoming Week/ Fire Safety

Students enjoyed a hands-on experience with this while trying to build the longest chain possible to go along with our Engineering Design Process in Science.

Book Buddies with 5k friends! We had fun reading stories and ended our session with a little dance party!

Text Deconstruction and Reconstruction during Writing time! Ask your child about our OUCH stories, and the "Oh no!" and "Phew!" moments they've been learning about.

Welcome back to school!! Here are some first day pictures!

Science: The students have been learning about the Engineering Design Process in science. This challenge required students to use materials in their pencil pouches to build the tallest tower possible. It required a lot of trial and error, and creativity. Next week, the students will engage in a group STEM challenge. :)