2-7-25

 Weekly News for 2-P 2-7-25

     *Thanks for sending coats, mittens, hats and boots, plus indoor shoes daily!

*In math we started unit 7 and the kids are loving the chance to do some measuring. We are working on the equivalencies of 1 yard = 36 inches = 3 feet. We are practicing measuring around the room with inches, yards and feet - so many things to measure. The kids are improving their measuring accuracy and are solving simple measurement word problems easily!

*In social studies this week we learned about using a compass rose and a map key (or legend) to help answer questions about a map. We are good at finding the symbols on a map that correspond to what they represent. We also read about how we can describe a geographic location and how they can sometimes change over time.

 

*In writing we wrote drafts of our movie/book description pieces. We used a supportive template that helped kids organize their writing into 3 separate paragraphs. Our revising work was being sure we used adjectives correctly and also making sure we varied our sentence length as we wrote. Students, after editing with their checklist, were very excited to make a google slideshow with a title page, their typed piece and an image about their book or movie. Learning to use these technology skills was fun and engaging. They were so proud of their final products. Our grammar tie-in was practicing adjectives that tell how many (few, some, many, one, five, etc). 

*Our focus was on prefixes (re, dis, un) in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced suffixes (s, es).

*In Go2 Science Beth and Curtis brought us along as they  explored the reefs around a remote, tropical atoll. We were all amazed by the colorful corals and the schools of reef fish. We loved watching them snorkeling among beautiful corals, reef fish, and encountering reef sharks too! We are developing strong feelings about the hypothesis!

Lining up our 1 inch objects

 

We loved the snow to play in!

Fort success!

Quite a tunnel!

We loved using the "fluency phones" to hear ourselves read our movie/book descriptions. 

We were listening closely to see if we had a good mix of sentence lengths in our pieces.

Our goal was to revise our pieces to make them smooth.

As part of our revising we highlighted any adjectives we had used to describe our movie, characters or setting. 

We are such good decomposers!

Measuring our feet

Searching the room for every day objects that were about 1 inch, 1 foot and 1 yard

Proud of his slideshow!

WE found lots of things that are about an inch - we can use these everyday objects ot help us remember standard sizes.

Look at all those adjectives!

This is the chart we made to help us remember objects for these standard lengths.

We measured our feet to see if they were close to 12 inches or not....

We saw so many sharks with Beth and Curtis this week!

More measuring!

Our current evidence for the mission

Weekly News 1-31-25

 Weekly News for 2-P 1-31-25

     *Thanks for sending coats, mittens, hats and boots, plus indoor shoes daily!

*In math we completed assessment work for unit 6 and math portfolios will come home next week with updated information on your child’s progress. We kicked off unit 7 on measurement. We worked on identifying what an inch is, why we need standard measurement units, and also began to work with feet and yards. Kids love measuring things around the room. We are working to carefully line the ruler up with the beginning of the object to be accurate.

*In social studies this week we kicked off our final unit of the year on maps and geography. We learned about the difference between physical, political and road maps. We also explored the compass rose. We will do lots of practice work with reading and interpreting maps in the coming weeks.

 

*In writing we revised and published our journal entries from the week before. We are learning to be more independent using our editing checklists every week. Then we dove into another type of descriptive writing - a movie description. We will each describe a favorite movie over several paragraphs. This work will carry into next week as we will revise to make sure we have varied sentence lengths.

*Our focus was on inflectional endings (ed, ing) in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced dipthong and vowel team review and silent letter words as well. 

*In Go2 Science Beth and Curtis brought us on an adventure to a school in Fakarava. It was fun to see how their school compares to ours! Then they explored the reefs around this remote, tropical atoll. We were amazed by the colorful corals and the schools of reef fish. It was fun to see how Beth learned to turn a coconut into coconut milk! We had a lot of questions and as always, they answered all of them! 

Oor planning for our movie (or book) description pieces

We used our tape measures to measure things all around the room on Friday. 

We measured our lockers....

water bottles....

The "Sittin Kitten"

Here's our new fish, hoping 3rd time's the charm!

We even measured our lego creation.

Pickles the fish got measured too!

One of the smurfs got measured as well.

Free Choice art makers!

We practiced estimating and measuring common class objects.

We know so many graphemes...no wonder we spell so well!

Go 2 Science this week gave us lots to draw about.

A little movement break with Beth and Curtis

Math partner work

Playing a UFLI game on the big board

We made maps of our classroom.

Map maker!

We created a map key.

Here is Pickles!

Concentrating on the next step in map making.