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After doing a lot of yoga in gym class, it was finally warm enough to do gym class outside again. We learned a lot of stretching exercises and played games to improve our fitness. We are looking forward to learning more about them soon.

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After talking a lot about graffiti, and different styles from writing to comics, we took a closer look at street artist Keith Haring. We read a picture book and learned a lot about him and his art. His sister calls him "The boy who just kept drawing". His figures are very special, they have no face and are very abstract. He was also a very special person. He didn't care about making a lot of money, he wanted his art to be accessible to everyone. He also included children in his work.

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In math, we talked a lot about lengths. How tall are you? How long is a car? What else can we measure in our classroom and outdoors?
We also practiced addition and subtraction with two-digit numbers. We also practiced multiplication and started division. In the meantime, we can even read the time. We are very happy about how well we can calculate in the meantime!

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We enjoyed making a dance inspired by our city for the Spring Celebration. Afterwards, some of us wanted to make a dance inspired by the ocean, so we worked in small groups to make tableaux, with low, middle and high shapes. Then we added movements to our tableaux to make a dance, and lastly we performed for one another.

Now, we're exploring negative space (and positive space). We use our shapes to make obstacle courses for one another. It's amazing how much we can do, now that we know about shapes and tableaux!

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2nd grade has been learning new songs and working more on using our bodies to find rhythm and beat. They also worked very hard memorizing the words and melodies for “Good Day Sunshine” which I hope everyone enjoyed in the Spring Celebration! Recently we’ve started learning more about instrument families through listening to Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” as well as explored playing music from “the Lion King” on percussion instruments called Boomwhackers! We’ll be exploring instruments and instrument families more as we close out the year.

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The students are working extremely hard to produce poems during our writing block. We have discussed that poems can have repetition, can be an emotional outlet and as poets, we can be as funky with our writing as we want to be. For example, not using punctuation, writing in lower case letters, and changing the fonts of certain words to represent importance.

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Grade 2 has just started their book series unit. This unit is going to prepare them for third grade because we are focusing on the characters across a series and how they handle problems. Our main goal during this unit is to understand character traits and use evidence from the text to support our ideas. We are also working very hard to annotate important ideas within the text as well. The students are reading Junie B. Jones, Flat Stanley, Pinky and Rex, and Mercy Watson.

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Grade 2 is taking a break from Phonics until 3rd grade, but during this mini-unit, we focused on homophones. We learned the difference between the major homophones they encounter in their reading and writing such as "there", "their" "they're" and "to", "two" and "too". When students are writing or reading at home and they come across these words ask them what they mean and how they know the author chose the correct version of the word.

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This Science unit is all about plant adaptations. So far students have learned the parts of a plant and what a plant needs to survive. Students have grown their own plants and have discussed how to rehab an unhealthy plant. We will continue to focus on different plants and what they need to thrive.

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The topic in ourSachkunde class the last few weeks has been spring flowers/ early bloomers (Frühblüher). In keeping with our season, we discussed which flowers bloom in the spring. What do they look like? How do they smell? Can I eat them, too? To go along with that, we did a reading walk. The solution word was spring. We were able to discover a lot about the different plants in our early bloom booklet.

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In German class, we worked a lot on our spelling. Many strategies helped us with this. We got better and better in our spelling tests. We also practiced presenting and introducing each other to a fairy tale we had read. We discussed how we could understand words we didn't know in a text while reading and how we could look up words in the word list. We often went to the library at school to borrow books. We can't wait to get more involved with books in the coming weeks.

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In Social Studies, grade 2 is learning all about the difference between rules and laws and why we need both as a society. We will continue to explore city government, state government, and the federal government as well.