Mystery Skype

Today Mrs. Kennedy's Second Grade Super Stars participated in another Mystery Location Skype. This activity involves a global connection with another class somewhere in the world. Each class asks yes or no geography questions back and forth until the correct location can be figured out. Today we figured out that the mystery class is in Texas. Some of the questions were - "Are you landlocked?" "Do you border the Atlantic Ocean?" "Are you a western state?" Are you west of the Mississippi River?" "Do you border Mexico?" We also exchanged some interesting facts about our states. It is a lot warmer in Texas than in Massachusetts. Our question asking skills and geography vocabulary and knowledge is improving. This is fun game you can play at home using a map.

Multiplication Stories

Mrs. Kennedy's Second Grade Super Stars have been busy in math learning the concepts of multiplication and division. The students are so excited that they can multiply. One of our math stations last week was to write multiplication stories using the iPad. It's always exciting to see such creative mathematicians.

Goodbye President Obama, Hello President Trump

Last week Mrs. Kennedy's Second Grade Super Stars experienced history in the making on Inauguration Day. We watched a very interesting live streaming video about flipping the white house. It was amazing to see the hour by hour timeline of how the current president has to move out of the White House and hours later the new president moves into a newly redecorated White House. On Inauguration Day we witnessed President Trump taking the presidential oath. The students found it fascinating that they were babies the last time we had a new president and they will be eleven or twelve the next time we have a presidential election. Below is a video of the messages that the students have for President Obama and President Trump.

Be sure to have your volume turned up while the children are talking.

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday celebrations. I have posted some pictures from my family's Christmas celebration. I had a wonderful day with my family. Some of my favorite traditions were unwrapping presents on Christmas morning, making the Yule Log for dessert, eating a roast beef English dinner with my family at my parents' house and pulling English crackers and wearing the paper crown.

Please share about your vacation week by adding to the padlet below.

                             

Holiday Traditions

During the month of December Mrs. Kennedy's Second Grade Super Stars learned about different holiday traditions. After sharing lots of our favorite holiday traditions the students created their own google slide showing their own family holiday traditions. They also wrote a personal narrative describing their favorite holiday tradition. They brought this piece of writing home on Friday in their homework folders. There are two versions of the slide show for you to view. One is a google slides presentation and one is in a video format. Our final activity was recording a holiday message to share with you. We hope you enjoy these holiday presentations.





                                                           Merry Christmas!

Geography

Today we were very fortunate to have an excellent in school field trip. Second-grade students participated in a geography game show presented by Neal Nichols. Mr. Nichols combines his artistic talent with his geographical knowledge to teach students about geography around the world. After a whole grade interactive presentation, Mr. Nichols visited the second-grade classes individually to teach them even more about geography and drawing. Our very own Christina won the Geography Game Show by being a good listener and paying very close attention to all the facts that Mr. Nichols shared with us. He asked some very challenging geography questions about our world. Click on this  link to go the Geography Game Show website to learn more about this program. Thank you to our awesome PTO for funding this great in school field trip.

                    

Jacoby GHO

Today we were lucky enough to be able to have a Google Hangout with our classmate Jacoby. He is visiting his family in Ecuador for the holidays. Jacoby shared what he has been doing this week with his family. He went to a place near the equator where he could put one foot in the northern hemisphere and one foot in the southern hemisphere. He also told us it is 70 degrees and windy today in Ecuador. We were so excited to tell him that it was snowing in Middleton today. While we were talking with Jacoby Neil the geography man was visiting our classroom and he drew a picture live on GHO of South America for Jacoby. Even Dr. Carreiro came down to say hi. This was definitely meaningful global learning at its best.