Welcome to 2nd grade!!Each week I will be updating our website. Please visit it frequently to learn about our classroom activities.Once again thank you SO much for being SO generous with your contributions to our classroom. Thank you very much for the gift certificate for First Communion. I definitely will find use for a manicure!NEWS OF THE WEEK:LITERACY:The last couple weeks we finished our read along Charlotte's Web. We compared and contrasted the book and the video. We have been reading biographies. We chose a biography and did a book report on the person. We will be sharing these this week. In writing, we have been writing fiction stories taken from an event that actually happened in our life. We will be self editing these stories this week and making final copies. MATHLast week we learned about multiplication. We found out that skip counting can help us. This week we are on to division.RELIGION:We've been talking about carrying on Jesus' work. We learned about Father Damien and saw a short video on Molokai. This week we are learning to pray like Jesus.SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIESIn Science we have begun our insect unit. We are observing vials of mealworms, have a cricket habitat set up, and we have some vials of silkworm eggs. Many "pets" are inhabiting our classroom!