Our Week in Pictures

 We have had a busy, busy week!  I thought I'd give you a peek into some of our learning and activities via pictures.

 In Social Studies we have been studying landforms.  Students helped to invent actions to show each landform (have them show you!) and also created vocabulary cards that show the definition and illustration of  many of the landforms and bodies of water that we are studying.  I think we have some future artists in our room!





We published our first personal narrative this week in writing.  Students chose a story to revise and edit and they then created a published book that included a cover, dedication, author page, and even a blurb on the back telling what it was about!  On Thursday afternoon the entire second grade got together to share their work.

Right now, math is all about geometry in our classroom.  We have discussed 2D and 3D shapes and what characteristics each shape has.  One important compent of our learning and understanding is that quadrilaterals are shapes with 4 sides and that a quadrilateral with 4 right angles is known as a rectangle.  The kids find it fascinating that squares are also rectangles!  This week we have been building rectangles.  Given the number of rows and columns, students were asked to build or draw the matching rectangle.  In the photo to the right you can see us practicing building people rectangles! Our rectangle has 4 columns and 3 rows. The great thing about this lesson is that it was also  a beginning introduction into multiplication arrays.  They will be learning  more about that later! 

We finished up our week on Friday with Popcorn Reading.  Our reading buddies are the 5th graders in Mr. Lowe's class.  This is a wonderful opportunity to build relationships among students here at Hickory Hill and I love to see how those friendships grow and develop throughout the course of the year. 

 Well, that pretty much sums up the week in pictures for TEAM Heath?  And how was YOUR week??