Mrs. Cochran

October 2008

Greetings from 2nd grade! We are already 3 days intot eh 2nd 9 weeks! That's hard to believe! Where has time gone? I guess we have just been having such a great time learning that time has slipped away!

REMINDERS- Please send in a HEALTHY snack with your child EACH DAY. The children get hungry before lunch so they need something good to nibble on. :)

Here's what we've been working on...

Reading- I Guided Reading we have been sounding out words, reading for context clues, asking questions, talking with eachother about what good readers do when they get stuck on words, and much much more!

Science

Welcome back to all! Happy 2008! We are already eagerly back to work and ready to learn as much as we can!

For these first 2 1/2 weeks we will be embarking upon Light and Sound in science. The students have been learning how light behaves, that all materials are either transparent, translucent, or opaque, what reflection is, what refraction is, that light travels in straight lines, that a prism bends light, what convex lenses do (magnify), and what concave lenses do (make images smaller).

For additional resources on light...go to the following websites

www.howstuffworks.com

www.sciencemadesimple.com

www.exploratorium.com

Always for the children,

Mrs. Cochran