$47.20 Toward Haiti Reflief Fund!! Well Done Second Graders!

Our Helping Haiti Friendship Pin Project finally came to a close as we counted the money earned selling our beautiful little pins throughout the school. Small groups of students each worked together to use what we know about money and value and counted our earnings. Each group got a slightly different answer (hard, counting so much money with 2 or 3 other friends, but useful cooperative learning opportunity!!). All groups were certainly "in the ball park" with their counting (only a dime or two off)! The final tally was $47.20! WOW!! That's almost $50.00.... and that's a lot of money! We will forward our money to the Helping Hands Club who will donate their collection to Haitian Relief. Connecting our second graders in a global, humanitarian, creative way with our Haitian brothers and sisters in need! Now that's what I call "stepping up to the plate" second graders! Well done!
Other news... We continue our skills practice with double digit addition (with regrouping/carrying) up to three digit numbers and will begin our geometry unit soon. We will explore the attributes and differences/similarities in 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, learn their names, and vocabulary involved when working with geometry (flips, turns, face, vertex, sides...). Fun unit!
We will also begin our magnet unit soon! Understanding north, south, attract/repel, poles, how magnets work as well as how society uses magnets as tools. Fun!
Our social curriculum is also embedded in everything we do in the classroom. Learning how to make good responsible choices for your learning, the art and skill of active listening, attending to tasks, working independently or cooperatively with other students and caring and respecting one another is fostered every day in second grade! We have really come together as a thoughtful invested community of learners working together to make our classroom a wonderful place to stretch, take risks, and try new challenges!