Charlotte and Grace

Dear Families and Friends,

Welcome back to our blog! Since we last posted we have an update. Each second grader has taken time to think about their topic and what they know.

Here are some things that Charlotte already knew about jaguars:

• Jaguars eat sloths
• Jaguars are good climbers
• Jaguars rest on tree branches

Grace wrote a book about deforestation. Here are a few things she knew:

After doing this we discovered we had a lot to learn! Here are a few wonders we are hoping to answer:

• Charlotte wonders if jaguars have tried to eat people
• Charlotte wonders if the mother and father care for their cubs together?
• Grace wonders what birds do when their homes are chopped down?
• Grace wonders how the people of the rainforest deal with deforestation?

Wish us luck during our research! Stay tuned to Turn To Two for more information from other bloggers.

Sincerely,
Charlotte and Grace

Julia and Izzy

Dear Families and Friends,

We are thrilled to be the first friends to blog to you about the rainforest. Each second grader chose to research a topic from the rainforest. Julia is researching medicinal plants and Izzy is researching the howler monkey. It is a long and exciting process. We started by creating folders to put all of our research in. One of the things you will find in our folders is a Wonder Wheel.

A Wonder Wheel is a wheel of things that we wonder (or want to know) about. These wonders are our guiding questions. We use them when we are researching. Every step of the way we have all learned something new.

A howler monkey has a body that is two feet long and a tail that is two feet long, too.

Medicine from the medicinal plants in the rainforest are used all over the world to cure people from diseases like cancer.

We hope you enjoy learning this information about the rainforest.

Stay tuned to Turn To Two for more fun facts about the rainforest...

Sincerely,

Izzy and Julia

Welcome Friends and Families to our first blog for...

TURN TO TWO!

As a second grade team, we learned how to create a blog today.

Here are some things we know how to do:

• create colored words


• post pictures and videos


• change the font size


• use bullets and numbers (we used it to create this list!)


• spell check


• align words


• create links to websites


• preview and post

Be sure to check back to learn more about the rainforest! Stay tuned...

Welcome to Turn To Two!

April 23, 2010

Dear Families,

Second grade has been learning about the rainforest. Exciting discoveries are being made daily; we thought we'd let our families in on the research process by sharing our thoughts and information through a blog. During our study, each student will get a chance to blog to families a snippet from their rainforest research. Be sure to tune in next week to Turn To Two for an exciting update about the rainforest!

We hope you enjoy this peek into the rainforest world!

Chief Bloggers,
Ms. Conlon and Mrs. Ralton