Happy Halloween!

The Hudson Costume Parade and our Fall Party were spooktacular!
A HUGE thank you to ALL the parents!

Sharing Scary Stories...BOO!

Mr. Ranek's writers sharing their "scary" stories with us!  AMAZING craft mooooves!

Young Scientists-Engineers Hard at Work!

Developing models that mimic the function of an animal dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.

A Butterbeeula Pollinating Dandilions

A Chipmunk Dispersing Acorns

A Sharktapus Dispersing Coconuts

Our peers have given us compliments and constuctive criticism about our initial models.  

We'll use their feedback to redesign our models!

Homemade Root Viewers Day 3

What effect would turning the root viewers in a different direction have on the roots?

Homemade Root Viewers Day 2

Our radish seeds sprouted overnight!  

We placed 5 seeds on a damp paper towel inside of a cd case and didn't put them in the sun.

What caused them to sprout?

Homemade Root Viewers Day 1

We assembled homemade root viewers to observe the root growth of radish seeds.

What causes the seeds to sprout?

Proud Published Authors!

Sharing our published personal narratives with our second grade classmates!

Sooo many SUPER craft moves on every page!

Your Roots Are Showing!

The radish seeds sprouted VERY quicklly and now we're

 waiting for the carrot and onion seeds to sprout!

Thank you VERY much to Elena's mom, Chantal Hoffsten, for assembling our Root Viewer!

Who Knew Place Value Could Be Sooo Much Fun!

Playing Place Value Roll and Write to practice composing and decomposing 

three-digit numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones. 

Thank you Mrs. Beck for sharing this SUPER game!

How Are Seeds Dispersed?

Second grade botanists collecting marigold seeds from the plants we grew last year

as we investigate how seeds spread to other places.

Novel Engineering Project #2 Final Solutions

Those Darn Squirrels!  Engineering Projects

The enthusiastic engineers worked in teams to use their plan to build a structure that helped solve the problem they identified for Old Man Fookwire or the squirrels. Next, they got feedback from their peers.  Each group used some of that feedback to improve their designs. Finally, teams presented their final solutions!

Mrs. Marks, THANK YOU for supporting us with Novel Engineering!  
We couldn't do it without YOU!

Novel Engineering Project #2 Proceeds

Young engineers collaborating in small groups to draw a plan for what they will build to solve a problem for Old Man Fookwire, the birds, or the squirrels from the story Those Darn Squirrels! 

Enjoying An Awesome Read Aloud

Second graders enjoying sketching as they listen to My Father's Dragon!

Studying Geometry at Math Workshop

Brilliant Mathematicians hard at work discovering the characteristics a quadrilateral!