CLASSROOM SPOTLIGHT

Ms. Johnston’s | 2nd Grade Class

In Stemscopes, students discovered what bodies of water are like worldwide. They performed an experiment in which they formulated a glacier using aluminum foil to represent the ice and formed grooves in the foil to represent the rivers.

They placed pieces of ice on top of their mountain to see this change occur. They noticed after 5-minute intervals that the ice that melted flowed down the rivers on their mountain, which flowed into bigger bodies of water such as lakes and oceans.

Students were very interested in seeing these real-world transformations and the movement of water.

Book Campaign

This year, students will be encouraged to read outside of school and daily. Our goal is to build the reading habits of our students. It has been proven that the more you read, the better reader you become. To encourage leisure reading, Longwood will hold our first 1,500 Book Campaign.

Students will pledge to read 1,500 books over the course of the 22-23 school year. Currently, we are at 1,311 books! Please encourage your child to read every night for at least thirty (30) minutes. When we reach our goal, we will have a school wide celebration in April!