Studying and building schema for work with fractions! #rps2nd

More work with fractions today! Math games are our favorite! #rps2nd

Studying and discussing the moral/lesson in traditional literature in small groups using Scholastic Education quick reads! #rps2nd

Today for Earth Day STEAM time students are using Kodable to practice using loops to shorten code through a beach clean up activity! #rps2nd

These beautiful flowers were donated to #rps2nd to plant to make our Crestwood Courtyard even more colorful and inviting! We can't wait to have the students plant them when the warmer weather sticks! Reviewing our plant and measurement units to separate them evenly will be fun!

Our butterfly is hanging in our outdoor space! These kids did an amazing job!! 🦋

Here is this year's class designed dress as well as the art they helped design that is now hung up in our quiet reading area/courtyard! The legacy of 2022-2023 Crestwood 2nd graders is physically represented in this cheesy picture of me! ♥️🦋

Thank you to the city of Rockford, city hall and city manager Thad Beard, fire and police departments, historical museum hosts, and the art staff at Pour'd for another amazing 2nd grade field trip yesterday! #rps2nd #rpscrestwood Rockford Police-Fire City of Rockford

Students planted flowers and refilled bird feeders to spruce up our outdoor reading space and finish where we started with our plant and animal relationships unit and PBL from the start of the day year! #rps2nd

I can identify and build 3-dimensional shapes. #rps2nd Strawbees

STEAM challenge: design a domino chain reaction that climbs up a pile of books!

One of the things I ♥️ about high ceiling, low floor math challenges are the ways they stretch all Ss to understand real-world problem solving! I tell Ss that I don't sit at home solving lists of problems, I use math in everyday situations. These help them see math IRL! #rps2nd

Searching for geometry vocabulary examples in nature! #rps2nd

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Used this simple STEAM challenge on day one (last week) to introduce collaboration, problem solving, and group norms as well as to describe the design thinking process... and have some FUN! #rps2nd #rpscrestwood

After working hard on NWEA, students got to work in teams to complete a KEVA challenge - this group chose to make a maze! #rps2nd #rpscrestwood

How can a tree travel around the world? In this week's Mystery Science lesson, students folded papers to represent different seed types and practiced dropping them to avoid the dreaded zone of darkness! #rps2nd #rpscrestwood

We love that our local KDL library offers so many Wonderbook options! My daughter loves chapter books and loves that she can listen to them easily with this resource!