ADVENTUROUS AUGUST

Welcome to second grade at St. James Day School! We are starting our learning adventures every morning with tactile tubs. Students enter the classroom, unpack their things and are given 15 minutes of time to play with various manipulatives. This quickly becomes a highlight of the morning and is an excellent opportunity to move our bodies before sitting down to listen and learn.

Second grade has also attended Chapel twice this year. During our chapel service we sing and learn a lesson from the Bible and Mrs. Susannah shares campus news.

Workshop began in second grade as well. During workshop students move about the room to various stations and practicing skills taught throughout the week. Stations currently include:

Listening & Media: Students get to listen to our weekly story and watch interesting videos that cover topics discussed in class.

Writer’s Workshop: Students respond to literature, illustrate vocabulary words, and use graphic organizers to develop writing skills.

Library: Students read books covering various topics and reading levels to practice and reinforce reading strategies.

Teacher Table: Students meet with me in small groups and we practice spelling sounds, math strategies and comprehension, and build relationships with each other.

STEM Fridays are also a class favorite. Every Friday we take what we have read and learned throughout the week and complete various experiments. We are currently learning about the physical properties of matter and how to classify objects into groups using color, shape, flexibility, texture and temperature. We investigated different cookie types and groups them based on their different or similar physical properties.