Ms. Oshokoya's Weekly Agenda: Grade 2 Weekly Classroom 5-8-2026

🌟 Grade 2 Weekly Classroom Update 🌟

Dear Grade 2 Families,

We had another exciting week full of inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and hands-on learning in Grade 2! Students continued building their understanding across literacy, math, and social studies through engaging activities and discussions.

📚 Language Arts – Frog Research

This week, students continued their exciting frog research projects! 🐸

We explored:

🍽 Frog diets
🔄 Frog life cycles
👀 Frog appearance

Students practiced:

Planning and organizing ideas
Writing first drafts
Using research to answer questions
Sharing information clearly

It has been wonderful seeing students grow in confidence as young researchers and writers!

🔢 Math – Base 10 & Decomposing Numbers

In Math, students worked with:

🧱 Base 10 blocks for addition and subtraction
✏️ Drawing tens and ones
🧠 Decomposing numbers to solve addition problems

Students also continued strengthening their mathematical thinking through:

🔍 Esti-Mysteries
🗣 Explaining strategies and reasoning

🌍 Social Studies – Needs, Wants & Trade

Our Social Studies learning focused on:

🏠 Community needs and wants
🌎 Imports and exports
🤝 What trade is and why countries trade

Students created their own international trading cards and participated in a very exciting Class Trading Game! Students worked in groups to trade goods between countries using different transportation methods like:

🚚 Trucks
🚢 Ships
✈️ Airplanes

Students loved taking on roles such as:

Speaker
Recorder
Manager
Reporter

This was an amazing hands-on way to explore global connections and problem-solving.

🎨 Art – Mother’s Day Flowers

Students created beautiful Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired flower art for Mother’s Day. 🌸
Their artwork was vibrant, creative, and full of thoughtful detail.