In math this week, we were able to read one of my favorite math books. It was called Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland. The book was about a young boy named Radius who went on an adventure with his family medallion. Radius learned about all different types of angles as well as the basic words for them "right", "acute" and "obtuse". The students loved the book and were really able to understand the difference between angles thanks to the rhymes and symbols the book put them with. The main reason why we read the book however, was for its reference to parallel lines. In the book, the two-headed dragon radius fights stretches out its necks to create a bridge. The King of Angleland calls the dragon his "Pair-of-lells". The second graders understood what parallel lines were then, when we went back and did the lesson about parallel lines. It is such a wonderful book and I would suggest any of the Sir Cumference math books to use with your students.
Thunder Cake was the story we read in reading this week. It was about a young girl and her grandmother who were getting ingredients to make a Thunder Cake during a thunderstorm. I was amazed at how interested the students became in lightning because of the this story. Later in the week, the students got to watch some videos about lightning and how it was formed.
I was especially surprised by two of the students who went home and did some research on lighting. They came back at the end of the week with papers full of drawings and information they had found. WOW! How awesome was that!? Nothing beats getting students interested to where they go out on their own to find out more about something.
We played Quick-Frozen Critters in science this week. This is a fun activity that came out of the Project Wild workbook. It had the students take on the actual roles of predators and prey to play a "tag" game where the predators would win if they took out all the prey, and the prey would win if they were able to get enough resources (water and food). After discussing the critical questions that went along with the activity, it was clear that the students really learned a lot about predator/prey relationships and about food chains due to playing the game. I don't want to get into too much detail about the week as there is just an enormous amount of learning happening this week. I hope you all have a great weekend!
-Laura Hill
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