Welcome New 2nd Graders :)

We had a great 1st day of school :)  I was very lucky to meet these 23 fabulous students.  I look forward to our school year together.

Scary Song

Scary Songs- 12 Days of Halloween

Have a Great Summer :)

I will miss you all! I look forward to seeing you as 3rd graders in the fall!!!

PBL at SciWorks

We recently visited SciWorks (thanks to CERTL) to "test" our hypothesis from our recent PBL lesson titled, "Time to Ride." The students had to develop a plan for all the students to get an equal amount of time on the racetrack. There were 22 kids and 5 bikes. The students voted on the best plan and that was Shyniya, Lucas, and Bradley's group that decided that there will be 4 rounds of 5 bikers and 1 round of 2 bikers and they will each get 6 minutes, which equaled a total of 30 minutes. They had a blast and the plan worked perfectly!! I am very proud of all my students for working together.

Check out the pictures from our trip :)

"All A Flutter"

Wednesday, May 19th the 2nd graders from Kimmel Farm visited the All A Flutter butterfly farm in High Point, NC. We enjoyed seeing first hand each stage of the Monarch Butterfly's life cycle.

Question for my class. What did you enjoy most about the field trip and what is something new that you learned?

Check out the pictures from our trip :)

Problem Based Learning

Last week our 2nd graders participated in a kaleidoscope of Problem Based Learning focused on different animal lifecycles. The following PBL's were conducted: Creepy, Crawly, Caterpillars (Mrs.Cherry), Stages of Metamorphosis (Mrs. Dezarn) Love Those Ladybugs (Mrs.Ellington), Who’s Making That Noise? (Mrs. Fala), The Duck and the Butterfly (Mrs. Yarbrough). It was a great opportunity for the students to participate in several authentic learning scenarios, as well as for the teachers to practice their skills they received this year through their training with CERTL.

"Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a learning/teaching methodology based on the principle of using problems as a starting point for the acquisition of new knowledge and a learning/teaching methodology designed to create learning through experience and the reinforcement of existing knowledge."

Problem Based Learning Cases from CERTL - The Center of Research, Teaching and Learning. Wake Forest University Health Sciences. 9 Apr. 2009 http://www.certl.org/ .

Question for all 2nd graders at Kimmel Farm. "Did you enjoy the PBL kaleidoscope last week and what did you learn from this experience?"