Weekly News for 2-P 5-5-23
*Run Club was a big hit again this week!
*Author Matt Tavares joins us next Thursday at WCS!
*In math we worked on partitioning shapes into equal parts and on array number stories (multiplication). We completed unit 8 assessment work. Next up we will kick off unit 9 on fractions and equal shares. We have just one math unit left in the second grade math program!
*During reading workshop we compared and contrasted nonfiction passages about interesting topics. We are growing as learners who can name similarities and differences. Visual tools, like venn diagrams, have been a big help to record our thinking.
*We finished opinion writing with two last book recommendation letters mid-week and started a poetry unit. We learned that poets look closely at everyday objects with a “poet’s eye.” After practicing this around the room we made a list of potential topics and by the end of the week we were writing poems!!! Students each got their own blank book Friday to hold their poems; they immediately gave these a title, decorated the cover and began writing their poems inside.
*Our spelling focus was review for the past 5 units. In phonics we studied the -ea as short e exception rule and dipthongs (oi, oy).
*In science we continued our matter unit with an investigation called “Can you build a house out of cards?” Students worked hard on two challenges to build towers using only index cards and paper clips. The teamwork and perseverance was fantastic. We had a lot of success and had to think really hard about the properties of materials that make them fit or unfit for building.
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| Array concentration |
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| Math games help us develop our fact fluency. |
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| Jumping in the rain |
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| Mrs. Pratt brings another great book to share with us! |
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| Mystery Science STEM challenge: building towers |
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| We could only use index cards and paper clips. |
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| First to get their tower to the right height! |
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| Second challenge - get the base to hold up books! |
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| Working on 12 inch towers |
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| Success! |
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| We made a poster for Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Small.... |
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| to thank them for feeding us great food every day! |
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| Run club planking! |
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| Writing class exercise - studying the ceiling for our first poem |
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| Practicing this week's phonics patterns |
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| Our personal poetry anthologies |
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| Comparing and contrasting non fiction texts |
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