{Natural Disasters}

The Twosies made waves with our Natural Disasters Unit! They loved this project and the room was trembling with excitement! 

Each group researched a Natural Disaster. They then shared their learning through the creation of a Weather Report video. We used a green screen and an app called Veescope Live to be able to insert a weather map and footage of the natural disaster. 

Here is what our set up looked like:

The video had to include the following information:

-where the disaster could occur

-how it forms

-an interesting fact

-its appearance

-effects on land, animals, or plants

-precautions people should take

-a disaster from history

Enjoy!

Earthquakes

by Tomas, Jack, and Sky

Flash Floods

by Vidur, Madilynn, and Hudson

Hurricanes

Molly, Finley, Grady, and CJ

Blizzards

by Audrey Anna, Hadyn, and Allie

Tsunamis

by Sawyer, Dani, Charlotte, and Levi

Tornadoes
by Payne, Mitchell, and Crystal

{Twosies Read Dr. Seuss}

We celebrated Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day with some exciting guest readers.

Jack's brother Will came and read Dragons Love Tacos to us.

Mrs. Hilley tweeted a picture and the author of the book "liked" our post!

Some middle schoolers from MBMS came to read to us as well!

Hadyn's dad also came and read to us. He read Green Eggs and Ham and had the whole class in stitches! 

Before he left, Mrs. Hilley made him demonstrate the worm!!!

Of course, Hadyn had to show off too...

The class wrote metaphors using My Many Colored Days as a model:

Metaphors

We also wrote our own Fox in Socks tongue twisters using alliteration:

Tongue Twisters

{Second Grade Sweeties}

The Twosies celebrated Valentine's Day with lots and lots of conversation hearts!!

First, we used conversation hearts to practice our math skills. The Twosies used the hearts to find the area of a large heart outline and then they sorted them by color. They presented their data in fractions and a bar graph. 

Next, we conducted some experiments with the hearts. We dissolved the hearts is different liquids and melted them with heat!

Lastly, we used the hearts to demonstrate the Scientific Process. We wanted to find out how many hearts we could stack before the tower would fall. The Twosies formed a hypothesis, conducted some research, recorded their data, and then analyzed their results.

Life in second grade sure is SWEET!

{Famous Georgians}

The Twosies completed research on some historical figures that impacted Georgia and the United States. They worked in groups to complete a research guide and then created a Google Slides Presentation to share their work. Each presentation had to include a slide for the Early Years, the Middle Years, and Later Years and include their figure's greatest accomplishments.

James Oglethorpe

Mary Musgrove

Tomochichi

Juliette Gordon Low

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jackie Robinson

Jimmy Carter

{Alaska Research Projects}

For their first research projects of 2018, the students chose an area of Alaska to research and present to the class. They could choose any method of presentation to share their knowledge. The students created posters, Google Slide Presentations, and videos. All of the research and work was done by each student. The videos were even filmed and edited by the students!

Alaska's History

History of Alaska by Hudson Brindley

Alaska's People

Alaska's People by Payne Pruitt

Alaska's Landscape

Alaska's Landscape by Dani Chihuahua

Alaska Landscape by Mitchell Cozart

Alaska Landscapes by Jack Morgan

Alaska's Climate

Alaska's Animals

Arctic Fox by Crystal Zhen

Harp Seal by Molly Adkisson

Narwhals by Grady Price

Alaska's Attractions

Alaska's Attractions by Tomas Rodriguez

The Iditarod

Iditarod by Vidur Karumbaiah

Iditarod by Levi Verrastro

The Northern Lights

{Growing Greenhouses}

We are so excited about the progress we have made towards our STEM project this year.
At the beginning of the year, the second grade students were presented with this video:


This led to lots of conversation about child hunger right here in our own community! The students then created their own version of the video:



The second graders were asked to share ideas of how we at Malcom Bridge could do our part to end hunger. It was decided that we would grow food in greenhouses to share with the hungry.

We met with Oconee Food for Kids to share our ideas and start a partnership with them.

We experimented with many materials to decide which allowed for the most growth.

We researched to find which areas of the school received the most sunlight.

We researched different types of greenhouses.

We visited the Malcom Bridge Middle School Greenhouse and learned about its structure and function.

 

We researched fruits and vegetables to determine what each class would plant.

Vegetable Research

We presented our persuasive projects to our classes.

Vegetable Presentations

We voted on which fruit or vegetable we would plant.

Then we planted...

The students created labels for each plant.

They gave each cup exactly 2 cups of soil.

They sorted seeds, so that we could put 5 in each cup.

They measured the greenhouse bed, so that the seeds could be evenly planted.

We are now in the research stage again. We planted two different types of watermelon seeds and we have some growing in our cold frame greenhouse, hoop greenhouse, inside our classroom in cup greenhouses, and in the MBMS greenhouse. We are collecting data to see which location provides the fastest and best growth!

{Cranberries, Cranberries}

Our Thanksgiving Unit led us to learning all about cranberries. We experimented first to see if cranberries would sink or float. When we discovered that they did in fact float, we cut them open to figure out why.

A cranberry has four air pockets inside that cause it to float. 

We then put the cranberries in hot water to see what would happen. The heat caused the air inside to expand and the cranberries popped open. We could hear the air bubbles escaping and the skins rupturing. 

Next we explored with dried cranberries to see if we could make the cranberries dance! The bumpy surface of the dried cranberry creates many ridges. We placed the dried cranberries in soda and watched as they rose to the surface and then fell back down to the bottom. This happened over and over and made the cranberries look like they were dancing!

Last, we made cranberry catapults to see who could launch them the farthest distance! It was so much fun!

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving Feast: