Solar science!

We are having a fantastic time learning about solar energy!  Today kids were partnered up and were challenged to build solar houses.  Students each had a cardboard box to use as well as many other optional supplies (sand, gravel, rocks, clear wrap, aluminum foil and marbles).  Students had to engineer a house with 5 windows and 1 door.  Tomorrow we will be testing these to see which houses warm the most when placed in the sun.  

We used what we had learned in science over the past few days to decide on the material that would best heat up our houses.  The pictures below are of our heat sync activities and equator experiment.

WELCOME TO FIFTH GRADE!!

It has taken me 11 years to get to 5th gade, but here I am-I finally passed 2nd grade (hehe)!!  I am so excited to start this new journey with all of you:)  I just know we are going to have a WONDERFUL,fun-filled year packed with all kinds of learning!! Have a fantastic weekend and I look forward to seeing you all here on Tuesday.
~Mrs. Curtiss      

Dinosaur Diggers

Here are the kids practicing to be archaeologists.  They worked very hard on getting the chocolate chips and M&Ms out of the cookie without breaking them.  This is like an archaeologist because they work with small tools and have to be careful too!

Here is our dinosaur egg.  In this picture it is starting to hatch.  My kindergarten daughter was worried that it would hatch over night and be running around the room in the morning.  The second graders knew it was pretend, but still enjoyed watching it hatch!

It's a baby Stegosaurus!

We named him Stego.

Now we are the real deal.  We are digging bones out of rock to solve a dinosaur mystery.  What kind of dinosaur will it be?  Everyone is having fun chiseling the rock away.  We have to wear safety glasses so we don't get any flying rock in our eyes.  This is so much fun, but after 2 days of chiseling we still have not uncovered our first bone! 

There is a bone in this picture, can you see it?

Click on the United States to Hear
The 50 States That Rhyme


THESE KIDS HAVE LEARNED
THE 50 STATES SONG AND HAVE
EARNED A CANDY BAR FOR
GETTING UP IN FRONT OF THE CLASS
AND SINGING:
Lexie Mize
Colton Williams
Anna Schatzlein
Sam Kubishta
Sydney Moore
Darla Herbert-Holden
Fallon Burgess
Josh Iles
Victoria Keene

Dandelion Monday

DANDELION

those little yellow tokens of love

are just weeds,

to the ignorant.

but in the eyes of a child,

they are priceless,

-by Emily Haws

April 30, 1995

How could Monday not be delightful with a jar full of dandelions sitting on my desk?

Thank you second graders!

Spring Collage

Easter Egg Hunting and Gotcha Assembly

We are having FUN!!!

At Home Space Projects!

These are all so wonderful! Take a minute and look what you all did. Mr. Cope came down and raved about how good these were, so good they could have been in the science fair! Keep up the good work second grade kids and parents. You are AWESOME!!!!