Category 2nd Grade

After the Thanksgiving break, both 2nd and 3rd grades returned to math. Second grade is focusing on the tables, while third is moving forward with long division. String star patterns help give a visual representation of the tables which are…

Second graders are completing their last week of our Saints and Heroes block. Saint Francis and Saint Kevin are featured here from the chalkboard and watercolor paintings. I find it very interesting that animals become the messengers of the higher…

Form drawing is not only a beautiful experience and art, it is a curriculum element that strengthens thinking, planning, and will forces. The line’s movement requires sustained attention, a fluid pursuit, and spatial orientation. Here, third graders used three unbroken…

Second and third grades painted using mixed colors from primary colors.

Autumn colors burst out in the painting lesson last week. Painting is a weekly lesson where stories, nature, and color studies are explored. Second grade is studying heroes and saints. Often animals play a strong role of virtue or of…

The second and third graders joined first grade on a nature walk through Lakewood Forest Preserve. Third grade is wrapping up a block focusing on farming stories and multi-digit multiplication. Students learned through stories about how corn is harvested. Second…

Fables and trickster stories pair with place value math lessons in the current second grade block of study. Third graders are exploring the country life as experienced by Walter King with stories about his crops, his father’s farm machinery, and…