The last two weeks have given us so many reasons to celebrate here in 2H! Wednesday, Feb. 7th, marked our 100th day together as a second grade class. It's hard to believe we have less than eighty days left together. As I always tell our class, time sure flies when you're having fun!
Students did a great job completing their 100 days homework assignment---thank you for your help! It was fun sharing our collections and comparing just what "100" looks like!
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| The collections that looked the smallest and largest! |
Our math workshop had us seeing just how many things we could do in 100 seconds (which your mathematicians quickly discovered was 1 minute 40 seconds!) We set the timer and we were off!
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| Clapping our hands! |
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| Hopping up and down! |
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| Writing our name---some of us have much longerrrr names than other! |
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| Sitting and standing! |
Later in the day, as a fun 100th day challenge, the owls worked together to complete some collaborative "100 Post-it Posters!" After calculating the math (including myself, we would need to add 5 post-its to each poster in order to reach 100), we set off in coming up with 100 ways to make 100, 100 places we'd like to travel, 100 books we love and 100 things to do before we're 100 years old! After stretching our thinking, we got the job done! Everyone had a blast reading all of the post-its when we were through!
As if the 100th day excitement wasn't enough celebrating this month, the all time highlight was definitely our celebration of Valentine's Day. We were reminded that Valentine's Day is about being with the people you love and showing kindness to others, and we certainly had a great day together!
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| Starting our day with a two-part heart greeting! |
Our math workshop had us completing many heart-filled measuring activities!
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| Finding the perimeter of the giant heart (first in inches and then converting those inches into feet!) |
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| Measuring and coloring hearts using centimeters! |
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| Creating and measuring "love bugs"! |
Before lunch, we enjoyed some crafty (& delicious) writing! Using conversation hearts, writers had to fit the words on the candies into sentence to make a letter! While this proved to be pretty tricky, the final pieces came out great (& of course everyone enjoyed eating some of the leftovers!!).
Later in the day, we explored a Valentine's Day mystery: How does your heart pump blood? After making observations about their pulse and heart rate, they created a valentine card for their heart!
After a fun-filled day, the end of the day arrived and it was time for our holiday celebration. Our adorable Owl Bags were ready to be filled! Every student had a BLAST delivering their valentines and had an even more terrific time opening and reading their special cards!
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| Even I got SPOILED this Valentine's Day! Thank you all for thinking of me!! |
Happy faces all around! A huge thank you for your help in sending in valentines. Each child had a chance to exchange these nice gifts with their friends. What a treat!!
I hope you and your family had a very happy, loving Valentine's Day!
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