Sharing our Speeches

We shared our POWERFUL speeches with Mr. Trill and the third grade last Friday!

The learners in the third grade were very impressed with our ideas!  They gave us many compliments and noticed that we were trying to PERSUADE them with our well written speeches.

Come by and read them for yourself when you are waiting for your family conference.

They are on the wall outside our classrooms.  We bet you'll be impressed too!

Multiplication Stories

We wrote our own multiplication stories for our friends to solve.

We read them and made sure our answers matched.

If our answers didn't match, we talked about why and tried them again.

Last, we placed our answers on the bottom of the posters to show our thinking.

Ta-Da!   This is how we KNOW that 7x5=35.

Four Rivers Students Visit Second Grade

 Previous EES student, Courtney Crafts and peer Nick Altimari are tenth graders at Four Rivers.  These dedicated students have joined in with a program entitled, “Do Something”.  This program encourages students to become active in their community based on something they are passionate about.

       Courtney and Nick visited our students with a mission of bringing smiles to the faces of children undergoing cancer treatment.  Our students got right to work creating masterpieces that would soon adorn the walls of Baystate Children’s Hospital.  The empathy, caring words and thoughtful additions to their illustrations were amazing signs of kindness, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

       Be watching for the photograph of their work on the walls coming soon to the Eagle Express!

  

 

100th Day of School !

 Today was the 100th day of Second Grade!

We celebrated all of our hard work in a "number" of ways.

We partnered up with a friend to complete a "100th Day of School" book.  In this book, we counted by ones, twos and fives to one hundred.  We also thought of 50 pairs of antonyms!  

Many of the students contributed to a 100th day snack by bringing in 100 dried pieces of food to add to a class snack mix.  We enjoyed 1, 900 pieces total!

Lastly, we went on a scavenger hunt for 100 Hershey kisses and efficiently placed them on our hundreds board.  (Don't worry, we didn't eat any!)

Enjoy the smiles...

New iPads! :o)

Mr. Smith shared some VERY EXCITING news with us this morning!

Our school received new iPad Airs for our students!

We were so excited to try them out.  After we discussed some safety rules, we explored a couple of geometry apps.  They connected beautifully with our math study.  We can't wait to use them in our classrooms too!

Darius is SO excited about our new technology!

Line of Symmetry

As a part of our geometry unit, we learned about the 

line of symmetry.

To show our learning, we worked with a friend to create a symmetrical design.

Gear Study

We learned about gears this week!  We worked with a friend to discover that a wheel with teeth is called a gear.  We also discovered that they work together in a gear train.