Being Humanitarians: 2nd Grade Bazaar 2013

There are so many worthy organizations that are fighting to better our country and our world.  I have narrowed it down to some great choices for our students to vote on--we will donate the profits from our sales at this year's 2nd Grade Bazaar to the winner of our poll.

Here is some information about each of the charities we will be choosing from:

World Wildlife Fund - fighting to protect endangered animals

American Red Cross: North Texas Region  - provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Coppell Humane Society  - a foster home organization that keeps the animals until they find their forever homes, no matter how long that takes

Ocean Conservancy - brings people together to find solutions for our water planet, protecting the ocean and its wildlife for future generations

Students: After looking at the websites above and learning about each one, click on the link below to visit our Today's Meet site, where you will share with your classmates which charity you think we should donate to, and why you think so.  We will then vote and send off our donation to the organization with the most votes in 2nd grade!

TODAYSMEET LINK

Engineering Station

Please visit the websites below to learn more about engineering and Rube-Goldberg and how you can create and build your own creative machines:

Rube Goldberg

PBS Kids Goldberger to Go

Tom's Trap-o-matic: Build a trap to catch Jerry!

Dynamic Systems Physics Game

FOSS Web's Rube Goldberg Burglar Catcher

Ed Heads Simple Machines Tool Shed

Simple Machines Learning Site

Have fun learning, creating, and engineering!

Weather Lapbooks!

The past couple of weeks we studied all things weather and compiled our learning into these awesome Lapbooks!

We had our students report the weather each day and charted the data on our Daily Weather Graphs. We learned about the water cycle and created an awesome umbrella telling about it. We compared and contrasted the weather from one week to the next. We made observations about our graph data. In conclusion, we did lots of thinking!

Here are some samples of 2A's hard work:

BRAIN BREAKS!

As you probably know, we recently began taking some "brain breaks" once or twice a day, where we get up and move around, dance, and act silly for 5 minutes or so.  Well, below you can find the links to these fun Brain Break videos that was put together by another teacher blogger!  The kids begged me to put these on the blog so they can do some of them at home, too!  :)

Click the links below to enjoy!

20 Brain Breaks from Teach. Train. Love

20 MORE Brain Breaks from Teach. Train. Love


Happy ALMOST Friday!  :)

Weather and Map Skills Websites!

While our weather unit has come to an end, here are some fun, interactive sites where your child can continue his/her learning!

E-Learning for Kids has a great game where you can practice reading the thermometer and predict weather:

Tony the Weather Forecaster

 Explore the 4 parts of the water cycle with Explorer Dan:

The Water Cycle

Ed-Heads has a game where you can learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves:

Weather Activities  

 
National Geographic has some Map Skills games:

Nat Geo Map Games

Lots of Maps Games--Try some out:

Maps Games


I hope these websites will provide you with some fun learning time, 2A kiddos!

Photos of our awesome Weather Lapbooks and 3-D U.S. Maps to come soon!

Fraction Fun

Last week we created some Fraction Foldables and fraction pyramids, and some of us wanted to show off their cool creations!! :)

Happy weekend!

100th Day Fun!

We had a blast on our 100th day of school in 2nd grade.

I was so sad that we had several students out sick--we missed them and wish they could have been there with us.

Here are some pictures of all the work we did (fun work, of course)!

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