Hood Museum and Planting Tulips

By planting tulips, we are Citizen Scientists taking part in the Journey North study of plants, climate and seasons.  More information is on the Journey North link on this page.  

We needed to follow scientific protocols by planting only Red Emperor tulips in a site with good sunlight and away from foot traffic.  

We use a coordinate grid to help us find where our tulip bulb is planted.  

The other group cleaned out the back gardens and decorated with corn stalks and pumpkins.

Plant Hike and Learning with Math Centers

 WES and SME second grade classed joined Maggie Stoudnour on a hike to Southworth Park to explore plants.  Students participated in three activities:

• Collecting Seeds to stick on a seed bracelet
• Tree Identification and bark rubbings
• Field games

We were lucky to have a beautiful day for a hike!

Attaching a new seed to a seed bracelet. 

Lunch Break!

Math Center games are an engaging and exciting way to practice math facts.  Two days per week Mrs. MacGowan and Mrs. Winchester come into the classroom to do centers with us.

Make ten

Addition Facts Bingo

Doubles Facts Bingo

All School Hike

A hiking we will go...

What a beautiful day to hike!  Thanks to all the chaperones who joined us.

As we put our Three Sisters Garden to bed we have been studying plant parts.  We looked at different seeds and this week planted our germinated bean seeds and put them in our grow lab.

Literacy in second grade

During independent reading time we read "Just Right" books from our Browsing Boxes.

One writing project we are working on is making a class Tunbridge Fair alphabet book.