Weekly News

 Weekly News for 2-P 11-21-25

*Conferences are Monday,  November 45th from 12:00-6:00 pm. I look forward to seeing you all!

*Monday and Tuesday (November 24th and 25th) are half days with noon dismissal.

 *We kicked off unit 5 in math this week. We worked on doubles facts and how we can decompose one addend of an addition fact to make adding more efficient. We also practiced turnaround facts and adding 2 two-digit numbers using place value strategies. We are playing lots of fun games to practice our facts and improve our mental math skills.

*During reading workshop we focused on reading books about the Wabanaki people. We enjoyed learning about their way of life and what’s important to them. 

 

*In writing workshop we turned our attention to writing news stories, which was a fun change. Some topics included our Chewonki visit, Wacky Wednesday and Spirit Week. Students got a chance to practice writing a piece that answers who, what, where, how and why information about their topic. It was a challenge to keep it to the facts but we persevered!

*Our spelling pattern this week was long a patterns.  In our phonics program we worked on r controlled vowels and common long a patterns.

*This week we kicked off our Wabanaki Nations of Maine unit. Using our Wabanaki languages book we learned about where the Wabanaki people live in Maine, what is important to them, and how they love nature. We especially like hearing what their language sounds like! Our Scholastic News issue helped us see what a pow wow is like and we enjoyed learning about this celebration. We also learned about the first Thanksgiving!

News Stories

Turkeys from art class

Blue and Gold!

Writing a thank you to our 8th grade scientist partners

Blue and Gold Day!

Working hard to publish our news stories

Athletic Wear Day

A little concert after music class

Fun with 8th grade science class

WACKY HAIR!

Yummy Thanksgiving Lunch

Measuring how far our balloon cars went

Twin Day!

Practicing our listening/observation skills

UFLI Game!

Playing a doubles math game

Dress For Your Future Career Day!

Sharing our hero writing with the class

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Weekly News 11-14-25

 Weekly News for 2-P 11-14-25

*Conferences are Monday,  November 24th from 12:00-6:00 pm.  If you haven’t signed up yet, there are still spots available.

*Monday and Tuesday (November 254h and 25th) are half days with noon dismissal.

*Spirit Day info is attached to my weekly email.

          *Our math work this week was largely completing the trimester benchmark assessment.  Students worked really hard to show me all that they have learned in units 1-5 of Reveal math. We kicked off Unit 5 on Friday which will focus on strategies to fluently add within 100. 

*During reading workshop we focused on reading nonfiction texts and pulling out facts and the main idea from the text. There was lots of excitement about the chance to choose their own topics with this work!

 

*In writing workshop we learned to write descriptive pieces about a chosen “hero” in our life. Students wrote facts and details about this special person and took this piece of writing all the way through the writing process. They wrote some truly beautiful pieces!

* In our phonics program we worked on r controlled vowels.

*We completed our Geography unit with a final project where we each drew a continent, named it and added/labeled at least 5 landforms (mountains, rivers, valleys, oceans, lakes, plains or islands). Students had fun naming their continent! 

Hero Writing

We played Last Kid Standing in math and they loved it (place value game).

Our final geography project was to create a continent with at least 5 labeled landforms.

On Wednesday we went to the 3rd floor!

We joined 8th grade scientists.

We worked with them to create a balloon car!

We had several model choices.

In sall groups our 8th grader helped us every step of the way.

Next week we will try them out!

Weekly News 11-7-25

 Weekly News  11-7-25

*Be sure to sign up for parent/teacher conferences. The link is in Mrs. Pratt’s newsletter and my email. 

*In reading we focused on reading a new genre; biography. We enjoyed reading about many important people such as Amelia Earhart, Louis Braille and Jacques Cousteau. Students drew illustrations to represent their learning and recorded facts. They also explored biographies of interest in Pebble Go! 

*During writing we completed our how-to books after revising and editing. Then we shifted to a new piece, a description about someone we consider a hero. Our biography work helped us understand ways in which someone can be a hero. We brainstormed a main idea and details about our chosen hero and wrote our first drafts. 

*In math we worked on two step number stories and dug deep into deciphering what a word problem was telling us in terms of computation - this is hard work! We are making many gains as a class and working cooperatively and collaboratively to solve tricky problems. We reviewed skills and concepts for the unit 4 test, which we took on Friday. We have a benchmark assessment of the first four units next week and then we will start unit 5!

*Silent e words were our spelling focus. Our phonics work centered on -dge, -tch and -le word endings as well as the different sounds a final y can make. 

*We worked more on our geography unit, learning about continents (we loved singing the continent song) and various landforms. Students made their own map grids. We also learned lots of new vocabulary (plains, rivers, oceans, valleys, mountains) and studied the difference between physical and political maps.

*We read a Scholastic News article about Veterans Day and watched a short video about this important holiday.

Writing partners share their plan for our hero pieces.

Subtraction Uno!

Getting and giving feedback on our writing helps us grow as writers.

We loved learning about Jane Gooddall.

We are reading biographies. 

Students drew and wrote about each person we studied.

Practicing subtraction

PJ Day cuteness!

As part of our geography work we made our own map grids.

We worked on matching geography terms in a fun game.

We loved reading about Jacques Cousteau, with a special assist from a 2nd grader for French pronunciation! 

Buddy reading on PJ day

Free Choice Friday: the lego crew

The stuffy crew

School-wide recess (Woolwich Way ticket reward) means you might spot your big sis!

Tic Tac Toe is a fun way to practice our UFLI words.

We are learning about landforms on physical maps.

We used this organizer to plan our hero pieces.