Busy, busy, busy!

The last six weeks of school always seem to be the busiest - and this year is no different.

An empty office at the Department of Parks and Recreation.

- We have been role-playing with Kelli as city department workers - and going out into our own communities to find evidence of city departments at work.  We will even have some government workers come in to talk to us and answer our questions.
- We have been growing lots of new plants!  We now have cuttings from ivy plants growing on our windowsill as well as wheat growing inside of straws!
- We visited the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens on Tuesday and explored some of the thousands of plants in the gardens - we smelled them, touched them, looked at them - it was a great experience.

- We have been using clocks to explore elapsed time and creating timelines of events.
- We are currently writing play scripts based on Leo Leonni books we read independently.  We wrote a class play script about Leo Leonni's book Swimmy and acted it out too!
- We are reading more and more challenging chapter books and really growing as readers as we notice lots of new things as we read.
- Today we are having a visitor come to speak to us about Kenya - the country where our pen pals live.

...Whew!  And that's only some of the great things we're doing in second grade!  As the year winds down, though, we will need some time to reflect back on our year.  I'll be posting the students' reflections here as we work on them.