Smart Play Home School Group

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2007

2ND GRADE HISTORY - reviewed archeology. long discussion about last year's dig and whether or not the artifacts found were real. Began unit 2 (ranae - you might want to add "unit" and "lesson" to your LA dictionary) Romans. they were very excited. talked about the roman empire and how far it spread, rome being located in italy, the use of latin and the latin origin of words in english. read the story of romulus and remus. they were upset by the story, how remus is killed. isaac in particular was upset and actually had tears in his eyes about remus being killed. it is a disturbing story - you might want to check it out in the reading room. made coins - they want to do more of those - they were going to give the coins to their "beary's" and "meow-meow." very cute.

2ND GRADE SCIENCE - reviewed meter, centimeter and millimeter. they remembered these today. talked about scales and creating scientific scales so that scientists all use the same units of measure. read the history of Fahrenheit and Celsius and how Celsius became the standard as it is simple to use. learned that water freezes at 0 degrees C and 32 degrees F. water boils at 100 degrees C and 212 degrees F. the human body temp. is 37 degrees C and 98.6 degrees F. this would be good to review - there are notecards in their folders for this. made our own thermometers and set the freezing, boiling and body temp. points on these. I got some photos to send in next month.

they were too silly during science especially- i'll have to make sure they get some time before class to burn off some energy:) otherwise a good day... they spent their free time making a camp site for the bears in Holden's room...

Rachelle