Ms. Hill’s Super 2nd Graders

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Blast Off! Today in science there was an explosion. All we needed was mentos and diet coke. Those things sound pretty harmless right? Guess what?! When Ms. Hill put the mentos in the diet coke, the soda shot up all the way to the tops of the trees! WOW! Don’t worry, we didn’t do it inside or our desks would have been covered in sticky soda. We watched from a safe distance the incredible geyser. We were so excited we felt like mad scientists ourselves.

Ms. Hill: What happens when you mix a solid with a solid?

Caleb: It makes a really yummy snack!

We’ve been jamming out every morning to our own version of the Aretha Frankin original. (Video of our singing soon to come!) Here’s our song that helps us remember the golden rule and how we are going to have the best year ever!

Treat others the way you want to be treated

Use kinds words, Show you Care

All I’m asking … is for a little Respect (just a little bit x4)

R E S P E C T  find out what it means to me

R E S P E C T the best way to be!

Today Ms. Hill brought in her guitar and we sang. We shook hands and said hello.We got to build with cubes in math time. We played “Find Someone Who”. We had to ask our friends questions to find out who could fill in the blank. My favorite part was the game we played outside on the playground .And soon we will be talking to you in sign language because Ms. Hill has been teaching us a lot of signs! We also learned how to say Mrs. Vandenende’s name. It was really long just like the book Chrysanthemum. We made new friends and I think it is going to be a awesome year.

-written by Ms. Hill’s class

Hello New Friends!

Ms. Hill here! I am so excited about starting a brand new school year. We will have so many wonderful adventures. Learning with one another we will experiment, read, explore, discover, laugh, and create. Second grade is a marvelous year and we get to share it together! Can’t wait!

Have you ever been to the Ackland? The Ackland is a museum with lots of paintings and sculptures. We did lots of fun activities. We listened to music and then sat in front of painting that matched the song. We saw portraits or paintings of people. We also went to a gallery of Jacob Lawrence and his art work. The coolest sculpture we saw, you could actually stand on! Normally you aren’t allowed to touch the art work. But , this was like a ramp. It had 18,000 little fake plastic people who were holding large flat panels of glass. You could walk across and see their hands and the tops of their heads. It was pretty awesome!

The saddest part was when we heard about Mr. Ackland who died and is now buried under the museum. But his sarcophagus was cool to look at. We are excited to go back next Wednesday!

We said a sad good-bye to our winged friends. It has been incredible and inspiring to watch their transformation from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. In the words of Zachary, good luck out in the wild!

- Ms. Hill’s class

Beep! Beep! Beep! We heard the sound of the fire alarm. Quickly we lined up and walked outside. We waited and waited in the cold. Brrr… While we were waiting, we heard the sound of a fire truck. “Could they be coming to our school?” “Is there really a fire?” we wondered. The firefighters DID pull into our parking lot. They all got out to check if everything was okay. It was! False alarm! Phew! Someone had accidentally tripped the alarm. Walking back inside we were all very happy that there wasn’t a real fire.

-Ms.  Hill’s Class