Weekly News 10-28-22

Weekly News for 2-P 10-28-22

*Sneakers Wednesdays for PE and water bottles every day. Library books back for Monday!

        

*Our math thinking this week included work on name collection boxes and frames and arrows (where students have to follow and identify counting patterns).  We spent time reviewing concepts for our unit 2 assessment, which is now complete.  Unit 3, “More Fact Strategies,” is up next.

*During reading workshop we worked on author’s message, where students identify “big Ideas” or themes in literature. They did a great job articulating what an author wanted us to learn in a wide variety of fictional books that included messages like “follow your dreams,” “treat the Earth kindly” or “show kindness to others.”

 

*In writing workshop we learned some craft moves from author Jane Yolen, like making our reader wait (building suspense), using comparisons as we write and using sounds and bold words to bring our reader into the story. We spent a lot of time practicing our editing skills. Our writing stamina increases daily!

*Our spelling pattern this week was the “al” and “alk” pattern.  We practiced these words through sorting, proofreading, and using context clues.  Our grammar work reinforced contractions, punctuation, prefixes, verbs, vowel teams and accurate spelling.

*Mission Groundwater in GO2 Science came to an end and we learned that drinkable water was found.  Students wrote about their big take-aways from this mission and we made a poster comparing and contrasting the lives of students in this Kenyan village to our own lives. We also decorated our classroom door on Friday with all the things we learned during this mission, about another country and their customs as well as the need for clean water.

*Our phonics work this week focused on consonant digraphs, specifically sh and the two th sounds.  Students are showing such increasing independence with phonics patterns in their reading and spelling!

Mrs. Fuller and Ms. Luchies deliver our prize because WE WON THE PUMPKIN CONTEST!

Sorting our new spelling words

Here is our trophy!  We are VERY proud! 

Making the most of our inside recess time!

Playing with the train set while it rains!

We shared our stories and got some peer feedback.

Paint markers at inside recess

We are on our third book in this series and we love these books.

The WCS firefighters visited us on Wednesday to talk about fire safety.

We got to see what they look like in all their gear.

We also met the EMTs.

On Friday we recorded what we learned during our GO2 Science unit on strips of paper.....

We used our folders as a resource.

We had a bonus Go2 Science livestream on Friday and got to find out how much water is needed to find a village for a whole day.

The kids loving the chance to lead our grammar work at the board every day.

Working hard to publish our thinking about Mission Groundwater

Reader's Notebook sample about Author's Message in fiction

Each Kindness reminded us how important it is to treat others well.

On the last day of Mission Groundwater we wrote about all we learned!

The kids love using their magnetic letters to build words during our phonics work.

We met our new guidance counselor substitute, Mrs. Saufler and had a great time with her Friday.

We used the door to show our science learning.

Laurel made a mini Beth and Curtis!

On Monday we made monsters in Art!