Sound energy

Exploring sound energy.

Book Fair

The Book Fair is coming and Mrs. Berumen needs your help. If you can volunteer to spend some time helping out, please go to the link shown below or call the office at 817-251-5680.

Pajama day!

Who wouldn't want everyday to be pajama day?  We had a fun comfortable day lounging in our pajamas! :)

Fire prevention program

The children went to a fire safety prevention program this morning and learned a lot, make sure to ask them about it!

Light Energy

We have been exploring light energy this week. Students learned that light travels in a straight line and reflects off of a mirror. A curved surface reflects the light differently than a flat surface and makes our face look silly or even upside down! Have you ever looked at your reflection in a spoon or a funhouse mirror?

We need your help!

Parents, I need your help before Oct. 31st.  The children in Mrs. Step's and Mrs. Ganus' class entered a contest through Lego Education.  This is a project that we have been working on for the past 5 weeks ( some groups got done while some did not).  The children created their own story or changed the ending to one of Mo Willems Pigeon books.  We have now submitted our finished projects into the contest to try and win some Lego starter kits and autographed books by Mo Willems, but in order to do that we have to get as many "Likes" as we can on our projects by Oct. 31st.  I have included below the instructions on how to do this with a list of our projects!  We would appreciate any help you can give us where we can proceed on to the next level for a chance to win.  Thank you!

Project titles:

New ending to the Pigeon finds a hot dog.

Don't let the pigeon be a superhero

Don't let the pigeon go to China

The pigeon wants candy

Don't let the pigeon drive the truck

Don't let the pigeon play basketball

New ending to don't let the pigeon stay up late

Don't let the pigeon press the button

Red Ribbon Week

Red ribbon Week kicked off today with wear red and super hero masks.

Red Ribbon Week is this Week!

Play Dough

Today we shared our final bath of play dough with the P-K students.

Help!!!!
Second grade will be engineering instruments in a week and a half.  We really need help with some of the supplies.  If you have any empty tissue boxes, empty paper towel rolls, empty toilet paper rolls, and any paper cylinders (oatmeal container).  We thank you in advance for your help.  Your student may come home for this project and ask for some additional supplies for their specific instrument.  We can't wait to show off the instruments on STEM night in November.
Thanks!!

Second Batch of Play Dough

Today we created our 2nd batch of play dough. We analyzed our 1st batches carefully and really improved with our second batches.

First mixture

Today we followed our process to make our first batch of play dough.

Properties of mixtures

We mixed two of our materials to look at the properties of them combined. 

Properties of Matter

Today we looked at the properties of the materials we will us in our play dough process.  We used microscopes and ProScopes digital microscopes to see the properties up close.  

Quality Tests

Today we tested high and low quality play dough and came up with texture and usage test to use on the play dough we will build.

Kona Ice

Kona Ice came today for our three states of matter project and surprised us with snow cones.

Reminder!!!!!

Students are expected to be in their classrooms no later than 7:45 and not walking in the front door of the school at that time.

Play Dough Experiment

Today we did an experiment testing many different types of play dough and clay.  We wanted to see what properties we think our play dough should have.  

Playdough STEM Kick Off

Today 2nd grade had a visit from Mrs. Marshall our PPCD teacher here at Cannon. She told us how important playdough is in her classroom.  She asked us to help her develop a high quality playdough for her class.  We will have to use chemical engineering and our knowledge of matter to help us achieve this task.  

Celebrate National Walk to School Day with your child this week by walking to school on Wednesday.  Either walk to school with your family and neighbors or join one of our school waling groups!  We will have two large groups that will meet to walk together.  One group will meet at the parking lot of the First United Methodist Church, on the corner of Church St. & College St.  The other group will meet at the corner of Dogwood Dr. and College St.  Both groups will have staff members walking with students.  They will meet between 7:00-7:15 and will begin walking to school at 7:15.  Hope you can join us!

Supplies needed

Mrs. Highfill, the Design Studio teacher, is requesting second graders to bring the following items:

*Shoe Boxes
*Wooden Skewers
*Pipe Cleaners
*Masking Tape
*Markers
*Straws

The second graders will be starting to design Cardboard Automata soon!

Storybook pumpkins

The following note will be coming home on Monday, however we thought we would give you the weekend to start on this great project.  Please read the following picture for the rules and guidelines.  All entries are due to school by Monday, October 20th.

Here is an example of the characters Piggie and Elephant by the author Mo Willems.

Hi,

The Design Studio would love the second graders to donate any of the following....

*Shoe Boxes
*Wooden Skewers
*Pipe Cleaners
*Masking Tape
*Markers
*Straws

We will be starting to design Cardboard Automata soon