Day 169 - A Visit to the Burlington Community Garden - Mrs. Scott - Francis Wyman Grade 2

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(Last week) we took a walk out to the Burlington Community Garden.  For those of you who don't know about it, it is located in the back left corner of the field at Francis Wyman.  Master Gardner Mr. Coppola talked to us about the Community Garden.  Each student got to plant a bean seed in the school garden.  During our visit we also got to walk around the community garden to see what has already been planted.  Did you know that there is a large section where people plant and take care of vegetable for the Burlington Food Pantry?

                                     

Feel free to bring your child by during the summer to check out the progress our beans are making!

Day 149 - Friction - Mrs. Scott - Francis Wyman Grade 2

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Today Mr. Musselman came to 213 to teach us about friction.  Our class did some wondering, predicting, and investigating to see what types of materials were affected by friction and cause heat.  Mr. Musselman used an infrared camera to help us test the materials.

Day 45 - Fire Safety with Firefighter Greg - Mrs. Scott - Francis Wyman Grade 2

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We were very lucky to have firefighter Greg, a Boston Firefighter, come to Francis Wyman today to talk about fire safety.  We got to ask many great questions about fighting fires and what it is like to be a firefighter.  Along with our many questions we talked about how important it is for every family to have a meeting place outside where they will meet if there is ever a fire.

Firefighter Greg
              

 Firefighter Greg shows us all about the protective clothing he wears when he goes out to fight a fire.  Did you know that the pants a firefighter wears are called bucket pants

During his visit, firefighter Greg talked to us about the importance of staying down low in a fire.  We also talked about what to do if your clothes catch on fire.....Stop, Drop, and Roll.....never run!

                                  

Remember:

• It's important to have an exit plan
• Make sure you have two escape routes or ways to get out.  
• If both exits are blocked, go to the window and stay there...firefighters will go there first
• Make sure you know your address
• Change the batteries in your smoke detectors every time you change the clocks forward/back
• Get low and get out
• Stop, Drop, and Roll 

Thank you firefighter Greg!

Day 159 - North America Continent Book Project - Mrs. Scott - Francis Wyman Grade 2

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We spent many hours researching and learning about North America.  Our many hours of research was then transformed into peer and teacher edited informative writing and beautiful illustrations.

Tristan and Shalom

Matthew and Sneha

Amelia designing her Statue of Liberty illustration

Adwait working on his Niagara Falls illustration

Pranathi and Maya designing their page

Ashneel and Tyrese adding their writing to their page

Hamd and Bella working on their illustrations for the Interesting Facts page

Chloe and Nicolette's Animals page layout

The Finished Pages......

The cover of our book was done by Bella

Matthew and Sneha worked researched and designed the Countries page

Pranathi and Maya did a great job researching and creating one of the Landform pages

Eshaan and Rumaysaa worked together to research and create the other Landform page

Tristan and Shalom researched animals in North America

Chloe and Nicolette learned about and designed another Animal page

Amelia and Adwait Learned about Important Places in North America

Ashneel and Tyrese researched and created another page about Important Places

Bella and Hamd worked together to create a page of Interesting Facts about North America