Category: Second Grade

Second graders are working on their Family Heritage Unit. The children have completed many family projects: a family tree, memory box, ancestor clothespin dolls, finding the origin of their names, and a paper quilt square that tells about their special family. A very important part of this unit was when the second graders interviewed one of their grandparents about life when they were young.

They are now working on a Past and Present book comparing their grandparent’s life to theirs. In class they made passports and wrote stories imagining they were immigrant children in the early 1900’s coming to America. This unit is a wonderful keepsake and a time for the children to discover some of their family history.

The beginning of November was teddy bear time in second grade. Each student brought a teddy bear to class.

The children read many Berenstain Bear books, interviewed their bear and wrote stories about them, and did teddy bear math using scales and measuring them in centimeters.

Unfortunately, we did have some problems. The bears put teddy bear stamps all over their work, hid from them, and even messed up Mr. Metzger’s office! But, most of the time we loved having the bears spend time with us. We ended their two week visit with a pancake breakfast to celebrate our special bears.

Owl pellet dissection was a big hit in second grade. Thank you Sarah Shaffer, founder of Sarah’s Science, for doing this fun science activity with our students!

Last week the second graders invited their parents to come and hear presentations of their mammal reports.

They spoke in front of the audience using note cards to tell information about their mammal.

They then performed a poem called Dogs and Cats and Bears and Bats. Their parents were then invited to try and put their mammal puzzles together which they had created and finally listen to them read their Monster stories. It was a fun morning in second grade.