SUMMER YEA!!!!
YOU DID IT!
Congratulations to all the students at SJS for THRIVING during this crazy year of school! We may have experienced some tough times together, but your resilience and perseverance has really paid off! I was so happy that our last few days together felt more "normal". We started with some time doing the Ultimate Trojan Circuit together, and you all killed it! It was such a joy to see you all working to be your very best to complete the obstacle course and cheer each other on. What a great day it was, even with the sprinkling rain on our heads!
Our last day together was spent remembering some fun times in second grade, as well as getting into some competition with our Minute to Win It games. I have never had a class try so hard or do so well at the competitions!
I will miss you all dearly and hope you have a great summer! Make sure to #flexyourfaith to everyone around you, and keep on being the wonderful sons and daughters of Christ that I know you are.
Love always,
Mrs. Hunker
Logic Puzzles
We have been practicing our critical thinking skills with logic puzzles! While we had to try some of our puzzles 2, 3, or even 4 times, we didn't give up and just kept trying!
Save the Dinosaurs!
We recreated Jurassic World in our classroom! The dinosaurs needed saving from Isle Nublar, and we created boats to help them float to safety!
It was a great way to practice our design cycle; when our first try didn't work, we had to re-think and re-design our initial plans. Some of us even made life-jackets for our dinosaurs!
Kite Building
Thanks to all the beautiful weather we've been having, we tried to build our own kites!
We talked about the parts of a kite like the tail, the bridle, the keel, the sail, and the spars
While we only had one student's kite successfully fly, we learned a lot about what is needed to make a kite fly and practiced our teamwork as well!
Easter Egg Hunt!
Happy Easter! We are keeping the Easter Season going with some fun themed activities, including an Easter Egg Hunt!
Once we found the eggs, we had to try to count the coins inside and figure out how much money was in each egg.
We may not have gotten to keep the eggs (or money!), but we had a blast anyway!
LEARNING THE ROSARY AND WORKING ON GRAMMAR
The second grade got the opportunity to learn more about our faith by exploring the Rosary. We talked about why we pray the Rosary and reviewed some of the prayers. We ended our conversation by making a visual guide to help us when we pray the Rosary and by praying a decade of the Rosary together.
We also got to be a little more "hands on" with our grammar lesson! We played a game called "Scoot"-social distance style. We tried to solve the fill in the blank task cards while rotating in the hallway and using our crayons. It was the first time Mrs. Hunker heard her class ask for more time for grammar!
FUn with Friction!!
2nd Grade
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Resources
Specials Schedule
If you do not remember if your child’s pod, please email me and I will let you know.
Day 1
- Pods A/B: STEM
- Pods C/D: Art
Day 2
- Pods A/B: Art
- Pods C/D: Music
Day 3
- Pods A/B: Music
- Pods C/D: Library
Day 4
- Pods A/B: Library
- Pods C/D: Phys. Ed
Day 5
- Pods A/B: Phys. Ed
- Pods C/D: STEM
Enrichment Opportunities
Xtramath: This is an app you can download for free on your tablet, or click the link below then click sign in, clicking on “Student”, typing my email (ellen.hunker@sjs-amherst.org), typing their name, and their 4 digit pin. If you need your child’s 4 digit pin, please email me and I will send it to you. This app is GREAT for practice with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.
Epic
You can access books on Epic to read by going to getepic.com, selecting me as their teacher, and entering our class code. If you need this code again, please let me know.
Prodigy
A LOT of students have been telling me about Prodigy, and after playing for a few minutes, it seems really cool! I don’t have a teacher account set up (yet), but if/when I do I will let you know! You can still sign up without me having an account to play at home. This is a GREAT math game.
In-Class Resources
Below you will find some photos or information that we are using in class this week. I am hopeful that this will be beneficial for both my in-class and distance learners.