A Day in the Life

Today's King of Show-and-Tell was CB. He had notecards to help him make a great presentation on his moose antler. It was found by his father in Montana near Yellowstone National park and it weighs six pounds. A moose sheds its antlers each year, and they usually come back larger each year. They can weigh as much as 20 pounds! They are actually bones. When the bone dies, it falls off.
The class helped sort through the classroom library. It looks marvelous!
EJ brought in further research on his caterpillar from whatsthatbug.com. He discovered it was a Great Purple Hairstreak Butterfly that feeds on live oak leaves.
We did "Word Work" using this week's spelling words. (Our Scientific Spelling rule is to use singular possessives correctly. Example: Whose desk is it? It is the girl's desk. (apostrophe s or 's) Ask yourself: "What belongs to the girl?" Her desk.)
We also took some time to clean out our desks. Spring Cleaning! We got rid of all our DLPs.

(Dreaded Loose Papers.)
We read a Junie B. Jones book and for some reason, ER revealed something amazing to us: He had on alien duck socks. A surprise around every corner in second grade...
In Math, we continue to study standard and non-standard measurement. Our new math words are length (length is the distance from one end to the other end of an object), weight (weight is how heavy an object is) and capacity (capacity is the amount a container can hold).
We had a classroom Scavenger Hunt to find things that were the length of our blue strip, and we estimated (made good guesses) how long some objects were in yellow strips and then checked our estimations. (This is using non-standard measurements.) Your child can explain this to you further tonight because we will have a Scavenger Hunt at home for math homework tonight.

Book orders go home today. They will be due next Wednesday, April 13.