Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

Today in the second grade, we:

• spent the first two periods practicing and setting up our presentation boards and experiments for the Science Fair
• practiced our typing skills in computer class
• took our unit 4 quiz in phonics in reading and phonics class
• reviewed the key vocabulary and concepts that we have learned so far from unit 7 in science class
• spent the final two periods presenting our presentation boards to the judges and the kindergarteners

Tonight's Homework:

In your science notebook, write a letter using at least three of the unit 7 vocabulary words (hibernate, fall, season, migrate, measure, evaporate, condense, water cycle, weather, temperature, precipitation, wind.)

The students were encouraged to write from the perspective of a plant, animal or an element of nature, for example, the students could write a letter:

• from a raindrop to another raindrop friend, describing its trip through the water cycle
• from a bear to another animal friend, describing its hibernation
• from a bird to another animal friend, describing its migration
• from the leaves on a maple tree to another plant or animal, describing the changing of color and losing its leaves during the fall

The example that we did in class:

April 22^nd, 2015
 

Dear Snowflake,

        Today was a very busy day for me. I was in Kaohsiung hanging out in a little puddle. I felt the temperature getting really hot, and saw my friends in the puddle going home as they evaporated. Suddenly, I felt myself going up, up, up to the sky! I wasn’t with my friends anymore, but I was condensed into a cloud with other raindrops. I liked meeting new friends! Our cloud party started to grow until there were too many of us, and we fell down, down, down to the ground as precipitation. Now I am hanging out in a lake with my cousins. I hope you are doing well.

Love,

Raindrop