By Greg Rodden

My teacher’s name is Mrs Erickson and she has a husband, a dog, and a daughter. Let me tell you how her class is doing so far this year.

In science, the class is working on making terrariums and aquariums out of two soda bottles put together as one environment. We have started to put gravel, dirt, flower seeds, and water. As the days go by we have to put a little bit of water in every day for the seeds to keep growing into plants.

We went on an exciting field trip to the Pequot Museum. The Pequot Museum tells about the Pequot Indians and how they survived and ate. The models the museum has seemed so real. We had also gone down an escalator inside a glacier. It seemed as real because the water was dripping down the walls. We also walked on a bridge that was under a small river.

The children in Mrs Walker’s class have already started to read books on stories that are true and stories that are make-believe. They are starting a story called Keep the Lighthouse Burning Abbie, which is a true story about a girl who kept a lighthouse burning through a tremendous storm off the cost of Maine in 1856.

The class has also been working on their math strategies with “doubles” and “doubles plus one.” Most second graders don’t have a bit of trouble remembering the math facts for doubles up to 9…1+1=2, 2+2=4, 3+3=6, etc. Many kids can recite these automatically.

On October 31 there was Book Character Day at SHS. The way they do it is the children pick out a favorite book character and bring or wear a prop to signify their character. All the students each got a chance to share their report. Mrs Walker also chose a book character.