Mrs. Hardin's Second Grade Class!: October 2013

Bottom View Farms Field Trip

October 30, 2013 the kindergarten classes took all of the students to Bottom View Farms here in Portland. It was such a great day to spend at the farm riding on the hay rides, picking pumpkins, eating homemade ice cream, and playing at the farm. The students loved it, but were extremely exhausted by the end of the day. On the bus trip to the farms, they were loud and so excited, but that atmosphere changed on the ride back to the school. There were barely any students talking because they were so tired. It turned out to be a great first field trip for most of my students.

Scotty & Mrs. Hardin

A.J., Dylan, Kaiden G., and Jake enjoying the train ride.

Oh no, my class is all locked up!

Fire Station Day!

Here are some pictures from when we went to visit the volunteer fire station next to the school. We enjoyed our walk to the station and the information that the fireman provided for the students. They even got to climb in the fire trucks and try on their heavy helmets. We went on September 23, 2013

Turn and Talk

We do a lot of turn and talk about our subjects and book discussions. Here are a few pictures from September that I took of the class sharing their books.

Halloween in Kindergarten

Today was a fun and exciting day in Kindergarten. We cut open our class pumpkin from our field trip yesterday, and investigated it. First, I had all of the students to reach their hand inside and pull a handful of the pumpkin out on a plate. They were then instructed to sperate the seeds from the pumpkin goo. They loved doing this!!! We are currently learning about our five senses, so we applied our knowledge to the pumpkin investigation. The students then, counted all of the seeds that they had and wrote the number on a post-it note. We described what the pumpkin looked like, smelled like, and felt like. Some students put their finger in the pumpkin and tasted it. In math we are learning more, same as, and fewer, so we attached our post-it notes that had our number of seeds on it to graph paper and compared the amounts as same, fewer, or more. After inside recess, we enjoyed our Halloween cookies. I feel like our pumpkin investigation was a success. They were all excited to bring their seeds home to show their parents.