We are Scientists!

Hello Families-

It was lovely to see so many families at open house and at our assembly this week. Thank you so much for your support!

It has been a fabulous week of hands on learning here in room 17. We started our week with a science experiment using color changing beads.We were presented with some plain old white beads and had to come up with experiments that might make them change color. We tried running them under hot and cold water and putting them in the dark before we discovered their secret. Ask your child how we turned our white beads into multicolored beads!

This week, Mrs. McCarthy also began teaching her science unit on Matter. We learned that matter is all around us and can come in three states: solid, liquid and gas. We know that matter has many different properties and got to explore a few different solids and liquids. Here we are making models of a ice cream experiment we watched.

Other Things to Ask Your Child About:
- Learning fact strategy types
- Sorting our facts
- Looking at author's intention in books- authors try and make us have big feelings (happy, sad, laughter)
- Our second week of word study
- Those Darn Squirrels 
- The second grade assembly

Have a wonderful weekend!
Kelly