It is a very silly play.
So far, we brainstormed some ideas, developed those ideas into a plan, and turned the plan into a script.
You can see our script here.
We will be performing it Friday, June 10th, at 8:50 AM. Families are invited to attend!
Hard at work
Thursday, May 19, 2016
The Play Project!
We are creating a play!
It is a very silly play.
So far, we brainstormed some ideas, developed those ideas into a plan, and turned the plan into a script.
You can see our script here.
We will be performing it Friday, June 10th, at 8:50 AM. Families are invited to attend!
It is a very silly play.
So far, we brainstormed some ideas, developed those ideas into a plan, and turned the plan into a script.
You can see our script here.
We will be performing it Friday, June 10th, at 8:50 AM. Families are invited to attend!
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Graphs
In math, we are working with graphs!
Graphs are a great way to show data. Data is information. Data can be confusing, especially when you have a lot. Graphs let you organize data in a visual way that is easy to read, analyze, and interpret.
Here is some data we collected about play parts students were interested in:
This was way too confusing!
We put the information into a graph.
This was a much easier way to see which parts had the most people interested in them and the fewest.
We practiced making a pictograph, too.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Falling snow sounds like
Normally at this time of year, we write poems about the sound of falling rain. This year was a little different...
We put on our coats, mittens, gloves, and hats today at the beginning of writer's workshop. We went outside and stood silently for a minute to hear the snow falling all around (and on) us. Then, we walked back inside and wrote comparison poems about what falling snow sounds like. This was our first foray into poetry, with many more poems coming in the next few weeks, but students are already using interesting language and being very specific with the images they describe.
Here is what we wrote:
Falling snow sounds like someone’s shoveling the snow.
I put on my jacket and boots and mittens
Falling snow sounds like a soft pit, pat, pit, pat, coming down on your head and it is a soft little pit, pat that you will hear. And the car noise sounds like rain.
Falling snow sounds like little pebbles falling into a river. It also sounds like a coin falling into a river. It also sounds like a hard thing falling into water. It also sounds like water dripping onto a car or metal.
Falling snow sounds like little crinkling noises that are falling in the ocean and sinking all the way to the sand and then it smoothes through the ocean all the way to the other side and it starts all over and there was a truck beeping filled with snow.
Falling snow sounds like little people are creeping in my hood and my coat like crick crick and crick hardly also fast too!
Falling snow sounds like rain falling into a river or people throwing rocks into the river.
Falling snow sounds like pebbles plopping in a small river. It sounds like a clinking noise. It sounds like little stuff falling on the ground softly. It sounds like small crystals falling. I heard a snow plow.
Falling snow sounds like crackling fire on a rainy day. And also like hail falling into a river. Also the still beat of a flute/drum. And rain falling on an umbrella.
Falling snow sounds like people tossing hail into the river Tik Tik Tik and little drops of rain and someone hitting a pencil at a can.
Falling snow sounds like little pebbles falling in a river.
Falling snow sounds like pebbles falling.
Falling snow sounds like rain plip, plop all day, but my jacket hood was on my head making the plip, plop noise. We went outside just plip, plop I think for one or two seconds. It said plip, plop all day long if I was outside all day long.
Falling snow sounds like pop rocks popping in your mouth.
Falling snow sounds like stars falling into a calm gentle ocean.
Falling snow sounds like small waves in the still night.
Falling snow sounds like ice falling to the ground, making the soft sound cling cling and it sounded like rain.
Falling snow sounds like
pebbles skipping on the river.
Like chickens pecking on the ground.
Rain falling on a car, a car as blue as sky.
Sleet falling on that car as well.
The sounds of snow falling is peaceful, so cold.
Falling snow sounds like clinking rocks and crystals clinking. And a lot of nice shiny rocks and so much soft rocks. And a lot of car noises and a lot of people talking.
Falling snow sounds like gentle clinks falling from the sky and gentle plops. And it sounds like the North Pole snow!
Falling snow sounds like hail as gentle as a boiling pail with French fries in it. It sounds like rain falling on my cushion. It sounds like a soothing plip plip on the guitar. It sounds like a gentle waterfall.
Falling snow sounds like pop rocks popping in your mouth.
Falling snow sounds like your nails tapping on a table.
Falling snow sounds like rain in the sky and clicking noises too. And some cracking noise too.
Snow sounds like rain and tiny pieces of hail and people shoveling snow, when people slide, and people driving. And pat pat pat.
We put on our coats, mittens, gloves, and hats today at the beginning of writer's workshop. We went outside and stood silently for a minute to hear the snow falling all around (and on) us. Then, we walked back inside and wrote comparison poems about what falling snow sounds like. This was our first foray into poetry, with many more poems coming in the next few weeks, but students are already using interesting language and being very specific with the images they describe.
Here is what we wrote:
Falling snow sounds like someone’s shoveling the snow.
I put on my jacket and boots and mittens
Falling snow sounds like a soft pit, pat, pit, pat, coming down on your head and it is a soft little pit, pat that you will hear. And the car noise sounds like rain.
Falling snow sounds like little pebbles falling into a river. It also sounds like a coin falling into a river. It also sounds like a hard thing falling into water. It also sounds like water dripping onto a car or metal.
Falling snow sounds like little crinkling noises that are falling in the ocean and sinking all the way to the sand and then it smoothes through the ocean all the way to the other side and it starts all over and there was a truck beeping filled with snow.
Falling snow sounds like little people are creeping in my hood and my coat like crick crick and crick hardly also fast too!
Falling snow sounds like rain falling into a river or people throwing rocks into the river.
Falling snow sounds like pebbles plopping in a small river. It sounds like a clinking noise. It sounds like little stuff falling on the ground softly. It sounds like small crystals falling. I heard a snow plow.
Falling snow sounds like crackling fire on a rainy day. And also like hail falling into a river. Also the still beat of a flute/drum. And rain falling on an umbrella.
Falling snow sounds like people tossing hail into the river Tik Tik Tik and little drops of rain and someone hitting a pencil at a can.
Falling snow sounds like little pebbles falling in a river.
Falling snow sounds like pebbles falling.
Falling snow sounds like rain plip, plop all day, but my jacket hood was on my head making the plip, plop noise. We went outside just plip, plop I think for one or two seconds. It said plip, plop all day long if I was outside all day long.
Falling snow sounds like pop rocks popping in your mouth.
Falling snow sounds like stars falling into a calm gentle ocean.
Falling snow sounds like small waves in the still night.
Falling snow sounds like ice falling to the ground, making the soft sound cling cling and it sounded like rain.
Falling snow sounds like
pebbles skipping on the river.
Like chickens pecking on the ground.
Rain falling on a car, a car as blue as sky.
Sleet falling on that car as well.
The sounds of snow falling is peaceful, so cold.
Falling snow sounds like clinking rocks and crystals clinking. And a lot of nice shiny rocks and so much soft rocks. And a lot of car noises and a lot of people talking.
Falling snow sounds like gentle clinks falling from the sky and gentle plops. And it sounds like the North Pole snow!
Falling snow sounds like hail as gentle as a boiling pail with French fries in it. It sounds like rain falling on my cushion. It sounds like a soothing plip plip on the guitar. It sounds like a gentle waterfall.
Falling snow sounds like pop rocks popping in your mouth.
Falling snow sounds like your nails tapping on a table.
Falling snow sounds like rain in the sky and clicking noises too. And some cracking noise too.
Snow sounds like rain and tiny pieces of hail and people shoveling snow, when people slide, and people driving. And pat pat pat.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Measurement
We are working on measurement in math. Right now, we are using centimeters and meters to measure a variety of objects in our classroom. These pictures are from one of our opening problems: the king's bed.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
flood testing!
The scientists of Lab 204 were designing and testing some solutions to our flooding problem. Using a model of our model town, engineers had fifteen minutes to devise a solution that used either walls, pipes, houseboats, or an early warning system. These first attempts were highly creative and innovative, but most did not protect the house from getting wet. It's back to the drawing board for a second attempt tomorrow!
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Biweekly update, February 12th
We finally had some snow, and had two days off of school!
Reader's Workshop
We continued our work with folk tales these weeks. We started reading some retellings by an author and illustrator named Gerald McDermott. He loves to tell folk tales, and makes all of his own illustrations to go with the story. When he writes one, he does research on the art techniques that match the part of the world the story comes from. He tends to retell stories from Native Americans and from many different countries in Africa and Asia. We read Monkey, Anansi, Zomo, and Raven. Many of these are trickster tales, in which the main character has to be clever to escape from some bad situations. Many of these are also "just so stories" that give a story about how something in the world was created or made to be how it is today. For example, Raven offers an explanation of how the sun got into the sky.
We used two different structures to help us analyze and compare these stories: a t chart and a Venn diagram. These help to categorize information and are great pre-writing tools.
Writer's Workshop
We are still writing our own versions of folk tales. We included a couple of techniques to make our writing interesting: dialogue, comparisons, and the rule of threes.
Next week, we will start to think about finishing, revising, and publishing our work!
Math
We wrapped up our work on multiplication and moved on to measurement. To start, we had to make a bed for a very demanding king.
Science
We are working on flooding! We read the book Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean and played a game about the water cycle. We read about what floods were, then had to discuss whether we should allow floods to happen or try to stop them. Next, groups of scientists developed possible solutions to a flooding problem, ranging from creating a system of pipes that would divert flood waters away from the town to building a fleet of submarines for people to live in during flooding events. In the end, we picked four possible solutions to focus on: building a wall or dam to control or divert the water, building a system of pipes or moats, turning people's houses into houseboats, and creating an early warning system that would give residents advance notice so they could escape to higher ground during flood season. One of our colleagues also mentioned that using multiple systems to create redundancy would be a good idea, in case one of them didn't work. We will not be testing using marshland to capture flood waters, but this is a technique used very often in the real world.
Reader's Workshop
We continued our work with folk tales these weeks. We started reading some retellings by an author and illustrator named Gerald McDermott. He loves to tell folk tales, and makes all of his own illustrations to go with the story. When he writes one, he does research on the art techniques that match the part of the world the story comes from. He tends to retell stories from Native Americans and from many different countries in Africa and Asia. We read Monkey, Anansi, Zomo, and Raven. Many of these are trickster tales, in which the main character has to be clever to escape from some bad situations. Many of these are also "just so stories" that give a story about how something in the world was created or made to be how it is today. For example, Raven offers an explanation of how the sun got into the sky.
We used two different structures to help us analyze and compare these stories: a t chart and a Venn diagram. These help to categorize information and are great pre-writing tools.
Writer's Workshop
We are still writing our own versions of folk tales. We included a couple of techniques to make our writing interesting: dialogue, comparisons, and the rule of threes.
Next week, we will start to think about finishing, revising, and publishing our work!
Math
We wrapped up our work on multiplication and moved on to measurement. To start, we had to make a bed for a very demanding king.
Science
We are working on flooding! We read the book Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean and played a game about the water cycle. We read about what floods were, then had to discuss whether we should allow floods to happen or try to stop them. Next, groups of scientists developed possible solutions to a flooding problem, ranging from creating a system of pipes that would divert flood waters away from the town to building a fleet of submarines for people to live in during flooding events. In the end, we picked four possible solutions to focus on: building a wall or dam to control or divert the water, building a system of pipes or moats, turning people's houses into houseboats, and creating an early warning system that would give residents advance notice so they could escape to higher ground during flood season. One of our colleagues also mentioned that using multiple systems to create redundancy would be a good idea, in case one of them didn't work. We will not be testing using marshland to capture flood waters, but this is a technique used very often in the real world.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Water Poster Project
Your water project posters are due next Monday! More information about this project can be found on the second grade website: https://sites.google.com/a/watertown.k12.ma.us/lowell-grade2/projects/mwra-poster-project
In class, we talked about ideas that students have. One of the most important parts of this project is coming up with an interesting and new idea. We made this list of ideas we had. Some are very creative and some are very common.
You could use water to:
shower
wash hands
wash glasses
cook
have a water gun fight
make water balloons
take a bath
fill a swimming pool
make snow
give a puppy a bath
fill a shark tank
wash dishes
fill a fish tank
give your pet some drinking water
help with science experiments
in a dishwasher
in a washing machine
wash your face
Then, we came up with a list of poster elements that are important. We made a rubric and figured out how many points each element should be worth. Mr. MacLellan typed this rubric up. It is available here. When you are working on your poster at home, check against the rubric that you are doing your best work! Since you have had three weeks to work on it, teachers are expecting very high quality, detailed work.
Good luck!
In class, we talked about ideas that students have. One of the most important parts of this project is coming up with an interesting and new idea. We made this list of ideas we had. Some are very creative and some are very common.
You could use water to:
shower
wash hands
wash glasses
cook
have a water gun fight
make water balloons
take a bath
fill a swimming pool
make snow
give a puppy a bath
fill a shark tank
wash dishes
fill a fish tank
give your pet some drinking water
help with science experiments
in a dishwasher
in a washing machine
wash your face
Then, we came up with a list of poster elements that are important. We made a rubric and figured out how many points each element should be worth. Mr. MacLellan typed this rubric up. It is available here. When you are working on your poster at home, check against the rubric that you are doing your best work! Since you have had three weeks to work on it, teachers are expecting very high quality, detailed work.
Good luck!
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