Our Field Trip

The first thing we did on our field trip was we went on the hayride. We saw decorations like ghosts and dancing skeletons. We saw a giant spider. Trashaad saw a dead dude. Robert saw a fake martian.

We got to pick pumpkins from the pumpkin patch!

We had to be careful not to get a smushed pumpkin. We cleaned off the dirt from our pumpkins. We got back on the hayride with our pumpkins and drove by a strawberry patch.
We went to go see how apple cider was made and then we went to a musical show.

Then we went to see Granny. We learned about the old times and even got to see a slingshot toy.

Then we got to eat lunch. Thank goodness, we were soooooo hungry! After lunch we went to see the animals.

Finally we took a class picture.

Matter

Today we learned about matter. Matter is everywhere and everything is matter! Matter can be liquid, solid, or gas. Solids don't change their shape unless someone changes it for them. Liquids can change their shape if you change what the liquid is in. One example of a gas is the air around us, or the wind that blows in your face. The air is made up of different types of gases. We can use our senses to figure out if something is a solid, liquid or gas.

Pencils are solids!

Water is a liquid!

The air we breathe is a gas!

Here is our class!

They are CRAZY!

The first and second day

We learned about the rules. They are 1. Be respectful. 2. Follow directions. 3. Try hard. We learned not to run, except on the playground and in PE. Every day at school, we say the Pledge of Allegiance. We always do great work!

We learned there is a banner that counts how many days we've done our homework. If one person or two people forget their homework or do not do their homework we have to put our count back to zero. On day 10 that ALL of us have our homework, we ALL get prizes.

We decorated our homework folders today. It was raining outside, so we played at centers instead.

Welcome to Second Grade!

I hope you all have had a wonderful summer and are as excited as I am to start our year together! This year, as a class, we'll be working on this blog. Sometimes I will post information and happenings to the blog, and sometimes students will be asked to post their work or summaries of what has been going on in class. This will also be the place you'll be able to see pictures of us hard at work at school. I would like to encourage families to leave us comments after we post! I look forward to meeting all of you very soon!

Love,
Mrs. Eckert