combine materials that when put together can do things that they cannot do by themselves such as building a tower or a bridge and justify the selection of those materials based on their physical properties.[2.5D]

· Students should be given a variety of objects that they can use to build a structure with and then explain why they constructed it in the way that they did

· Allow students to talk about other pieces (shape, size, etc.) that would have been helpful to have and explain why

· Talk about any extra pieces that were not needed

· What are the physical properties of the unused pieces

· The pieces of a flashlight (battery, bulb, container, spring, etc) can be used as a demonstration

· The parts of a mechanical pencil or pen can be used as a demonstration

NOTE: This applies to anything that is a mixture of other things

Including: 

• Physical properties of materials that help them do new things when combined to create something else 

•Examples of systems / objects that are combination of items that do not function the same as if they were separated: 

   Brick walls without mortar 

 Lemonade without sugar 

 Cake without flour 

  Swings without the seat portion 

 The kids had soooo much fun with this! First they planned their bridge on paper. Some of them had great ideas to start with, others had even better ideas after I simply showed a Google image search page of bridges.  It was so much fun to walk around the room and hear their reasoning! DOK 3 Baby! Go scientists, go! They were given several choices for materials & some even asked for additional supplies. They had to build a bridge that would support a toy car. Most of them made amendments to their original design. 

Place Value Math

Birthday girl

2nd grade turkey

Happy boy!

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Birthday boy!

Fall is so beautiful! I just wish it would slow down! Feels like it will be winter in no time.

The 2nd six weeks is flying by! We have so many awesome readers! They are just flying through their reading levels! I am so proud of them! In Math we are counting coins & comparing their values & adding with coins. We have also just finished up our graphing unit. In Science we are learning about sound, magnets, motion, & matter. Check out this cool sound game using a guitar to defeat Rackweed. The kids loved this!http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/sound/play/ All the games on this site are really awesome & engaging! This guitar game gets harder, it was even difficult for me!

We have been working hard keeping up with our Data Notebooks- I will try to get  picture soon! Students are tracking & graphing their behavior, reading levels, tests, and writing samples for each six weeks.



Here are a few of my sweet boys peer teaching a new Daily 5 Center. ABC Stick order. I wrote all of our word wall words on the sticks, they choose 8, and alphabetize!

Here are our 2nd grade ambassadors. They are teacher selected and represent an ideal student and citizen at Lawndale Elementary. These two students are very hard workers, polite, always follow the rules, and work hard to set examples for their classmates. Proud of you two little Lawndale Bears! :) Keep up the good work!

Just a little class room rearranging:::

Whisper phones: 

We use these for Read to Someone during Daily 5.