End of the year

This is the final blog post for this school year. It's been a GREAT year with some of the best kids ever! We've had a lot of fun and we've also learned so much. Your teachers will miss you. Have a safe and enjoyable summer and keep reading those chapter books! We love you all!

Field Day

We had our field day activities on Tuesday, June 8th. It was a blast! We had a relay race, jumped the hurdles, threw nerf javelins, played tug of war, and much more. The coaches passed out orange CCE field day bracelets and we got to dance! Not your normal day in second grade at all.

The Butterfly Release

Over the long Memorial Day weekend all of our caterpillars turned into beautiful butterflies! After observing them for a few days we let them go in our butterfly garden. The circle of life continues...

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

We're observing our caterpillars and labelling their body parts on a diagram. We've seen a play about the lifecycle of a monarch butterfly. We're creating caterpillar and butterfly crafts daily. We have lots and lots of books about caterpillars and butterflies. I guess you could say we're becoming experts!

I'm so hungry I could eat some dirt!

To introduce our next unit in science we brought in the most delicious kind of soil - dirt cake! Of course we completed a lab sheet on our observations using our senses and -last but not least - tasting! I wonder what we'll do with rocks...

Arts Extravaganza Week

Wow! What a week! We had an assembly EVERY DAY and saw fantastic, talented artists from all over! On Monday we saw Sugar and Spice Puppetry, Tuesday brought us two percussionists from the Jacksonville Symphony, Wednesday we heard, recited, and acted out poetry with Glenice Redmond, Thursday the African Musicians from EPCOT treated us to music and dance, and today we heard a banjo and listened to bluegrass music! I LOVE Chets Creek!! Tonight is the culminating activity - it's our Arts Extravaganza! Plenty of free art activities in the dining room, guest artists all around the building, and student art work covering the walls.

Our field trip to the zoo

Today we went to Jacksonville Zoo. What a perfect field trip to take the day before spring break starts! We were able to see lots of the habitats we've been studying in science. The education program let us touch a snake, baby alligator, rabbit, and box turtle. The kimodo dragon and penguin exhibits were very popular! It was a beautiful day and our wonderful parent chaperones helped to make it even more special for the kids!