Second Grade

The second graders are in the midst of a very busy fall.  We’re taking a trip to Green Meadows Farm on October 31^st where we’ll learn about farm animals and their babies.  The children will ride ponies, milk a cow and hold many different animals. 

In math, we worked on counting by 2, 5, and 10 as well as reading and making graphs.  Now we are studying addition and subtraction facts. We learned the meaning of “grown-up” terms like The Commutative Property of Addition and The Identity Element of Addition.  We will work hard to find ways to remember all of the addition and subtraction facts with sums and differences to 18.  Then we will learn about place value.  We will discuss the importance of “zero” and how using that numeral makes so many other numbers.

The children are learning about their body systems and ways to keep their bodies healthy. 

We are discovering the world around us in Social Studies.  We are learning about the different types of communities and how each one affects the others.  We will also study what our country was like in the 1620s when the Pilgrims came to America.  We will compare and contrast our lives to theirs. We will make butter and cornbread.   We learned about Columbus and how he actually found a new part of the world that Europeans, Africans and Asians never knew about.