Historical Grapevine Research

This week we went on a walking field trip to Downtown Grapevine to finish up our unit on historical buildings in our city.  Today Mrs. Vorachard helped us film using the green screen and we created our video.  Click here to watch Mrs. Hall's class video.  Click here to watch Mrs. Ganus' class video.  We hope you enjoy it and learn something about our town.  

 

Final Play Dough

Today we created the Play Dough we will give to Mrs. Walton.  We added color and scent to our high quality play dough we engineered.  We really enjoyed our work as chemical engineers.

Improved Play dough

We love having a space big enough for Mrs. Hall's and Mrs. Ganus' class to work together!  We had a great student helper and had many successful play doughs.  We are ready to use SCAMPER strategies that Mrs. Gable taught us to make a play dough that is a pleasant color and smells good.

Play Dough

We are busy engineering a high quality play dough. 

Field Trip to Main Street

We enjoyed looking at the historical buildings and all the fun holiday decorations today on our trip.

Week of 11-26

11-28  2nd Grade Field Tip to Grapevine Main Street 8:15-10:45.  Please make sure your child has good walking shoes and a jacket if needed that day.  We will be back in time for regular lunch. 

 

Cannon Community Service Project starts this week.  We will be collecting shoes for Soles 4 Souls.

See the following video for information.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwhjFmquyS0 

We will collect shoes between 11/28 and 12/19.

 

11-29 Cubs Night Out at CiCi's Pizza

 Parent Technology Academy

GCISD Parent Technology Academy is BACK! Sessions are scheduled monthly

 with more to come! Come and learn along with others about the ever-changing

 world of technology in which your children are living!

Sessions can be found on the Parent Technology Academy Webpage

Have a question about GCISD Parent Tech Academy or like to request a

 presentation? Let us know just email kyle.berger@gcisd.net

 

Thanksgiving Table Design Challenge

Can you use 12 index cards, 1 foot of tape and a small poster board rectangle to create a table that holds a "Thanksgiving Feast"? How much mass can your table hold? Check out some of our creations!

Grandparents Day

Butterflies

What an exciting day.  Our butterflies came out of the pupa today.

Musical

Musical Information

Hello 2^nd grade parents,

I can’t believe the musical is tomorrow Thursday night, November 15^th!  Students will need to be in the music room at 5:50pm for check-in. The musical will begin at 6:00pm. The entrance doors off Pebblebrook Dr. will open at 5:45pm. Please remember that students should be in school dress code. They will be on risers so their costume can’t take up too much space. See attached letter for costume reference. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

 

Musically yours,

Selena Garcia

Properties of Play Dough

Today we explored the properties of high and low quality play dough. 

Playdough Kick Off

Today we talked with Kristen Walton about how she uses play dough to help the children build their hand strength.  She asked us to work on engineering a play dough that she could use with her children.

Week of 11-12

11-12/11-16 Book Fair
11-14 World Diabetes Day- Wear Blue
11-15 2nd Grade Musical 6:00-6:30
11-16 Grand Friends Day 8:00-10:00
11-19/11-23 Thanksgiving Week Break

Parent Technology Academy 
Sessions can be found on the Parent Technology Academy Webpage
 

Heating Solids

Today we heated a solid block of chocolate until it melted.  They we dipped a pretzel in and watched as the heat was removed the liquid chocolate turned back into a solid.

Number Lines

Today we worked on identifying benchmark numbers on an open number line.  Then we coded the Ozobot to travel the number line and do different things at the different benchmark numbers.

Classifying Matter

Today we sorted matter based on properties.

Sensory Poems

Today we continued our study of sensory poems with some favorite cereals. 

Popcorn Poems

Today we worked on writing sensory poems about popcorn. 

week of 11-5

November and December Book of the Month Challenge

Nov./Dec. Book of the Month

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Upcoming Events
11-12 / 11-16 Book Fair
11-15 2nd Grade Musical 6:00-6:30
11-16 Grandparents Day

Plant Stem Engineering Challenge

We engineered plant stem models that show how the stems bring water up to the leaves of a plant.