Friday February 24th, 2017

Today we are bringing home a sheet to fill out at home. We need to record the ages of the people in our family. You can include everyone who lives in your house (mom, dad, brothers, sisters, grandma, grandpa) Please put the name and age. Your child is welcome to draw a little sketch to go with it: FOR EXAMPLE:

We will be using this information next week to create our own family chart and figure out some exciting differences in our ages and future ages! 


Current Events:
We are very excited to be talking about things that we can do to help the Polar Bear. By helping reduce greenhouse gasses we hope that the polar bear's habitat will remain a safe a viable place for it to live. On Monday February 27th 2017 it is INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY. We have talked about what we can do to help:

-walk to school
-bring our thermostat down by one or two degrees to save energy
-keep our lights out longer
-recycle, reduce and reuse


On Monday we are challenging ourselves to go the whole day at school with no lights and no technology and to turn our heat down a degree or two in the classroom. What can you do at home to help? 

If you do turn your thermostat down can you send in how much you turned it down for Monday and how long you went without lights so we can add up all the energy saved on Tuesday February 28th?

http://polarbearsinternational.org/get-involved/international-polar-bear-day

If you find an article in this website about International Polar Bear Day that you would like to share with the class, please print it out and bring it in and we can add it to our NEWSWORTHY WALL. 
We are also practicing reading with FLUENCY. This means we can read smoothly, accurately and with expression! If you find a NEWSWORTHY article (from any of the sites posted on Wednesday February 22nd BLOG) please print it off and let your child practice reading it. If they bring it to school then they can practice reading like a NEWS REPORTER up in front of the class!! They will also get to add their article to the CURRENT EVENTS GRADE 2 BREAKING NEWS wall!! 

Science

Yesterday we learned about room temperature and some different temperatures that are important. Ask me what normal room temperature is? What temperature does water freeze at? What temperature does water boil at? 

Our challenge yesterday was to see if we could take hot water (70 Degrees Celsius) and cold water (0 Degrees Celsius) and mis them together one spoonful at a time can we make Room Temperature water? 

We made a hypothesis and reviewed how to read a thermometer. Ask me how the water felt? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q48kxEzwubQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2CH1cUkMgs

We talked about how water molecules move when they are hot vs when they are cold. 

To show how hot water molecules move faster, spread out and rise, and diffuse into the colder water watch this science experiment. This is an easy one to try at home too!

http://coolscienceexperimentshq.com/water-temperature-experiment/


We also talked about normal body temperature and what happens when we get a fever or when we start to shiver. 

Over the weekend let me use the thermometer to find out my normal body temperature!