Welcome to the Second/Third Grade Classroom

The tree project had the 2-3rd grade class "budding" with questions: How tall is the tallest tree? What kind of leaf is this? Is this made from a tree? What damaged this tree? How do the leaves fall off--what makes that happen? The classroom has student made trees sculpted and shaped from Boxes and Junk, experiments and measurements, and sketches and artistic endeavors galore. Students are investigating and discovering what trees are, how they live, and how we interact with them everyday in Illinois and around the world.

Our second/third graders are keen to read new literature, connect ideas from mathematics, write and imagination, and share their wonders of the world around them and in other places. The classroom is a community where choice and collaboration are highly valued, where listening and debate are encouraged, and where teachers and students gain new understandings each day.