Weekly News for 2-P 12-9-22
*Thanks for sending coats, mittens and hats daily!
*We continued to work on telling time to 5 minute intervals this week in math. In addition, we began working on place value concepts with ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. We used blocks, created base 10 drawings and did lots of counting and reading of big numbers.
*During reading workshop we shifted gears and studied nonfiction books. To integrate our science unit into our day, we read a lot about seeds and plants. We learned about common nonfiction text features such as the table of contents, headings, bold words, captions, labels, glossaries and indexes. We did scavenger hunts as we read, trying to locate and identify various text features. We talked about what purpose each feature served.
*In writing workshop we planned our first realistic fiction story by mapping out the characters, setting, problem and solution. Then we got to writing and worked to get our characters into some sort of trouble (problem) so we could get them out of said trouble (solution!). The kids are writing creative stories! Next we practiced editing our own work. During the “Daily Edit” we try to find the places we need to fix in our writing. We are doing this practice together as a class, with writing samples, to build these skills so we can transfer it to our own writing.
*In science we learned about seed dispersal through a fun investigation called, “How Can a Seed Travel Halfway Around the World?” We now know several ways a seed can get from one place to another. We made our own seed models and practiced flying them, as we stood on chairs, to see how we could get them to escape the “zone of darkness.” We also read about “gross” plants and their adaptations in Scholastic News.
*Our phonics work was silent e words. We did review work in spelling all week and next week we will tackle common long e patterns. In grammar we practiced parts of speech, past tense verbs, vowel teams and adding details to sentences.
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