January
     Well, we are off and running in the new year here in the second grade.  We had a nice long Christmas break, but now it's back to work!
     Math work started off with solids and plane figures. Now we are on to fraction work and next week we will start on probability.  We continue to drill the addition and subtraction facts also.
     We took our fourth benchmark assessment in reading and our now starting our fourth unit, Look Again. We will be focusing on main idea and details within expository text in this unit.
     Story writing like another author has been started by reading books by Laura Jaffe Numeroff. Give a Mouse a Cookie, If you Give a Pig a Pancake, If you Take a Mouse to the Movies are just a few of the books we read before beginning our own cause and effect story.  We hope to publish these stories so that each student eventually brings home their own book!
     We are currently doing a unit on Kansas Symbols since Kansas Day is January 29.  Students are enjoying learning facts about Kansas and coloring pictures of each symbol.
     We finished Mouse and the Motorcycle right before Christmas break.  We were able to enjoy the movie also, and students had fun comparing and contrasting the book with the movie.  Our next book will be, The Chocolate Touch.