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Welcome to our second grade site. My name is Sharon Karr. This is my 26th year of teaching here at BES. Altogether I have 36 years of teaching experience. As you will see, we are busy learners, exploring our world and working together to master new skills. Second graders bring a lot of creative energy and inquisitiveness to each day. |
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Mrs. Karr's Second Grade 2009/2010
September
We sifted the compost bin and sorted our red worms from their castings. All of that rich soil was put into the butterfly gardens outside of our classrooms. Next spring we will plant new flowers in them.
 
 
Drop Everything and Read is our favorite time of day!
  
Practicing our math skills with number strips
  
We worked on identifying the plants in our butterfly gardens to create a map of each plot.
  
We painted posters of the stages of a rotting log for our study of decomposition.
  
 
October
We carefully observed red worms and earthworms. We also did experiments to see if they prefered a wet or dry towel, a light or dark place, a smooth or rough surface.
  
We had a pumpkin cookie store for math. We could buy a cookie, frosting and candies to decorate it. They looked so awesome. But the best part was eating them!
November
Our new math unit was all about investigating shapes. Some of our work was exploring making rectangles with geoboards and constructing 3-D boxes.
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December
In science, we began our study of earth materials. We rubbed rocks together, put them in water and sorted them to discover their properties.
We are doing a math activity called Counting Bags. We discovered that putting the objects in groups of ten made it easier to count them accurately.
After reading Eve Bunting's book, Night Tree, we decorated our own tree with food for the animals. First, we made strings of cereal. Then we took all the food we brought from home and went out on Clark's field to find the perfect tree. When we were done we had time for some sliding fun! We hope the animals and birds enjoyed their Christmas feast.
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January and February
  
We continued our study of earth materials. We used 3 different size screens to sort a sample of river rocks into dishes of pebbles, gravel and sand. Then we glued samples of the sizes to our recording sheets.
  
Our math unit was all about collecting, sorting and recording data. Here we are using different materials to show how we would sort and represent the answers to the question: What is your favorite winter activity?
  
After reading The Snow Child by Freya Littledale, we painted our own snow child in the style of Barbara LaVallee, the illustrator. Then we wrote a summary of the story and told about our favorite part.
  
We celebrated the 100th day on February 10th with some fun activities. One was to count out 100 classroom objects to see how far they would reach.
  
Our school collected an amazing amount of pennies for the Pennies for Peace program. It helps build schools for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The fifth graders came to help us roll some of the pennies. We worked hard - 2 rolls make a dollar!
  
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