Weekly News 11-9-22

Weekly News  11-9-22

*Be sure to sign up for conferences.

The link is in my email and on Mrs.

Pratt’s newsletter.

*In reading we focused on how to retell a fictional story in writing, stating the events in order. 

This is an important part of demonstrating comprehension of texts.  We practiced together

and on our own and will continue this work next week with realistic fiction.

*During writing workshop we finished fancying up our small moment stories and had a

fun author’s celebration with Mrs. Vise’s class on Wednesday afternoon.  Snacks,

friends and good stories. Next week we will shift our writing focus to a new genre,

realistic fiction series! 

*Our math work focused on efficient strategies for subtraction (counting up or counting

back) and using doubles facts to help us solve subtraction doubles facts quickly. 

*Short vowel, high frequency words were our spelling focus. We will finish this unit with

tests early next week and then start silent e words.  Our phonics work centered on more

consonant digraphs (wh and ph) and we read texts with lots of those patterns to help us

practice reading fluently.

*We completed our “Animal Adaptations” science unit and created bird feeders out of various

materials.  We went through a lot of steps in the design process and the kids were so excited

to try to think of creative ways to keep their bird of choice both well-fed and safe from cats!

*On Tuesday, while Woolwich residents came to vote, 2-P voted on our free choice activities

for Wednesday’s PE. The kids enjoyed filling out their own ballots!

Mapping sounds in words!

Planning bird feeder prototypes

Drawing two feeder prototypes

Illustrating our small moment books

Retelling fictional stories in sequence

Bird feeder buiilding

We are in the classroom on Election Day!

Math - showing our thinking on slates!

Author's Celebration

Brother-authors!