Second grade is beginning to introduce our Asia Unit
Last Friday we watched a video on a traditional Chinese New Year (this year it's February 10th), Miss Stark read us a story about the New Year and we made red lanterns with Chinese characters on it to decorate our classroom.
In China red, corresponding with fire, symbolizes good fortune and joy. Red is found everywhere during Chinese New Year and other holidays and family gatherings.
We will really kick off our Asia theme starting next week with a week full of Chinese New Year activities.
We ask that the students wear RED to school on Monday to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
On Monday, we made Valentines to give to the children of Children's Mercy Hospital. The cards will be given to a branch of 1st National Bank of Leawood, KS and will be disributed to the children at the downtown location from 2:30-3:30 on Valentine's Day.
In Science we got to do TWO experiments that had to do with energy. One on light energy and one on heat energy.
Tuesday's experiment: We learned the that there are three types of material that light energy comes in contact with.
Opaque: an object that lets no light pass through {black paper, aluminum foil}
Translucent: an object that lets little light pass through {paper towel, napkin}
Transparent: Object that allows all light to pass through {glass, gallon plastic bag}
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| Georgia and Sloane testing out the paper plate |
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| Making our hypothesis about what we think will or will not allow light |
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| Testing out the aluminum foil |
Wednesday's experiment: We talked about heat energy; how we use it and how the Earth uses it. We did an experiment with tea bags using hot and cold water.
Conclusion: we learned that when the object {water} is hot, the molecules move faster; when it's cold it slows down. That is why the hot water absorbed the tea bag flavor faster.
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| Molly seeing the difference between hot and cold |
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| Maeve and Connor adding the tea bags |
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| Kathryn and Anna seeing whats |
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| Ethan writing down his observations |
In math, we had a fun change from our regrouping and in honor of the 100th day of school being last week, in groups we sorted and graphed 100 SKITTLES!
We sorted them by color, counted, and put our findings in a bar graph, then we gathered as a class to see what the highest and lowest color was. In both classes we found GREEN was the highest and poor PURPLE was the lowest.
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| Joshua, Ethan, and Atem sorting the colors |
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| Tempting not to eat right away! |
Of course we got to enjoy a tasty, rainbow treat afterwards!
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