Measurement Gardens

To complete our unit on measurement we made measurement gardens. They cut out flowers and ordered them from shortest to tallest. Then they measured them in inches and labeled them. I sure hope we get some nice weather over the weekend so I can start on my garden at home!

Learning Capacity with our SUPER Gallon Man!

Our project to help us learn about gallons, quarts, pints, and cups was to make a SUPER Gallon Man. The gallon man shows us what is all in a gallon.

4 quarts = 1 gallon

8 pints = 1 gallon

16 cups = 1 gallon

We also sang the capacity song below and did a bunch of interactive games. 

The Capacity Song

Tune: Three Blind Mice

Cup, pint, quart.

Cup, pint, quart.

See how we pour.

See how we pour.

Two cups makes one pint.

Two pints makes one quart.

Cup, pint, quart.

Cup, pint, quart.

Cup, pint, quart, GALLON.

Cup, pint, quart, GALLON.

See how we pour SOME MORE.

See how we pour SOME MORE.

Four cups makes one quart.

Four quarts makes one gallon.

Cup, pint, quart, GALLON.

Cup, pint, quart, GALLON.

CHECK OUT OUR AREA-BOTS!

We had such a fun time working on area in our classroom. Each student got a sheet of graph paper to make their robot. When they were done they had to find the area of their robots head, body, arms, legs, and the entire robot. They had so much fun and were so creative with this project.

Too Much Noise! Our AMAZING music program!

Viking Elementary put on an amazing musical last Friday. The story was about a family that was so tired of all the noise in their house. So each family member asked a wiseman what they should do to make their house quieter. Each wiseman told them to get an animal for the house. They ended up with a sheep, hen, dog, donkey, and a horse. The house was VERY noisy! The family wasn't very happy when their house was full of even more noise. So they went back to the wisemen and they told them to take out the animals. Then, of course they thought their house was pretty quiet! I am so impressed with how well the students did at the program. Enjoy the pictures below!

The entire second grade cast!

The Family:
Baby, Sister, Brother, Mom, and Dad

The Narators

Our Class!

The Wisemen

Google Earth Scavenger Hunt!

This week in social studies we have been talking about landmarks all over the world. After we were done discussing we did a Google earth scavenger hunt. They had eight landmarks they had to find on Google earth by solving clues. Here is an example of a clue... Get an eyeful of this tower in Paris, France. The students loved searching to find these places. When we the found all eight landmarks they got a badge to wear that makes them an official Google Earth Geo-Explorer!

 Ian found the Statue of Liberty!

 Jennifer found Lincoln Memorial!

 Sherman found Thomas Jefferson Memorial!

Ian, Jennifer, and Jeri were the first three students to become Geo-Explorers! WAY TO GO!

Measurement!

Our class has been measuring like CRAZY this week! We started using non-standard units and went all around the classroom measuring items. We use cubes and pattern blocks that were about an inch and unit cubes that were about one centimeter. I have to tell you that this class is pretty impressive at measuring. After we really mastered the nonstandard units we went on to using standard units. We used the ruler to measure in inches and centimeters. First we measured items around our room and last we did an "I Spy" Sandcastles activity. The students had to find sandcastles around the room and first estimate how tall they were. Then they could measure to find out the actual measurement in inches. 

The following pictures are of our class doing the "I Spy" Sandcastles activity!