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We
have been noticing many changes in our seacoast town in
Massachusetts. The leaves are turning beautiful shades of orange,
red, and yellow. The days are getting shorter, and the air is
getting noticeably cooler.
We have read many books about fall. Our favorites are listed above.
Our reading inspired us to conduct
pumpkin investigations
and to go on a class nature walk. We have also written a class verb
poem, individual
sense poems, and a
class book titled Second Grade Nature Spies.
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Hello Fall Hello
Fall
hello to ...
Picking assorted size pumpkins from a pumpkin patch,
Playing touch football on a field,
Harvesting dark, red, plump cranberries from a bog,
Hiking on a leaf covered trail through the woods,
Climbing bare trees on a cold, windy afternoon,
Trick-or-treating in our neighborhoods on a dark
Halloween afternoon,
Decorating our houses with ghosts, pumpkins, and crispy
brown cornstalks,
Planting bulbs and Chrysanthemums in our gardens,
Bobbing for apples in a cold water filled bucket,
Cheering for the E-squad Tigers on a sunny chilly
morning,
Dressing up in scary costumes to scare people,
Rolling in the colorful leaves in the side yard,
Belly-flopping in the orange and green leaves under the
old apple tree,
Spinning, spinning, spinning until we get really dizzy
and fall in the orange, brown, and green leaves,
Baking pumpkin, apple, and squash pies in the kitchen on
a cold fall afternoon,
Eating scrumptious pumpkin chip cookies on a bright
sunny chilly afternoon,
Building chubby scarecrows stuffed with hay and leaves
outside in the garden,
Fall is here! We love it! |
We really enjoyed our pumpkin investigations and our class nature
walk.
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Massachusetts Frameworks:
English Language Arts Standards
1. Students will use agreed-upon rules for informal
and formal discussions in small and large groups.
2. Students will pose questions, listen to the ideas
of others, and contribute their own information or
ideas in group discussions or interviews in order to
acquire new knowledge.
3. Students will identify the basic facts and main
ideas in a text and use them as the basis for
interpretation.
4. Students will identify and analyze how an
author’s words appeal to the senses, create imagery,
suggest mood, and set tone, and provide evidence
from the text to support their understanding.
5. Students will write with a clear focus, coherent
organization, and sufficient detail.
6. Students will write for different audiences and
purposes.
7. Students will demonstrate improvement in
organization, content, paragraph development, level
of detail, style, tone, and word choice (diction) in
their compositions after revising them.
8. Students will use knowledge of standard English
conventions in their writing, revising, and editing.
Math Standards: Science and Technology Standards:
1. Organize, classify, represent, and interpret data
using tallies, charts, tables, bar graphs,
pictographs, and Venn diagrams; interpret the
representations.
2. Formulate inferences (draw conclusions) and make
educated guesses (conjectures) about a situation
based on information gained from data.
Science and Technology Standards:
1. Sort objects by observable properties
such as size, shape, color, weight, and texture. |
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