Weekly News 1-5-24

 Weekly News for 2-P

1-5-24

     *Thanks for sending coats, mittens, hats and boots, plus indoor shoes daily! 

  *In math we began a pilot unit from Illustrative Math. Please see the letter in your child’s take-home folder for more details about the pilot. The focus of this unit is adding and subtracting within 100, based on place value, properties of operations, and the relationship between addition and subtraction. This week we practiced solving bigger missing addend problems with multiple strategies. We used both manipulatives and paper-pencil methods to solve. Students enjoyed the warm up routines, especially “Which One Doesn’t Belong.” Each lesson has a “cool down” where students get to show me how they can apply the skill from the lesson. 

*In Social Studies this week we focused on important documents for our country. We learned about the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

*During reading workshop we read and explored nonfiction texts about force and motion. Our learning target was to pull factual information from resources. Our next science unit and writing unit will combine under the umbrella of writing lab reports. The students are currently building background knowledge about force and motion through informative videos, books and Mystery Science lessons.

Each student has a vocabulary book to record important definitions that will aid them when they do upcoming experiments. 

 

*In writing workshop we finished up our “All About Book” writing by adding conclusions, rereading and editing our work and adding color illustrations. Students have done a great job sharing information about a topic they know a lot about. 

*It was a focus on /k/ patterns in spelling this week (c, k, ck). Next week is silent letters.. Our phonics was centered on long e and long o patterns. The reading and spelling progress is amazing to see! 

Using cubes and towers of 10 to add big numbers

We loved using the sticks in Guidance to go with the rhythm of a song.

Stick music!

Author at work

Putting the final touches on our All About Books

Big numbers call for big unifix cube trains

Partners solved challenging problems together

We solved combining and comparing problems.

More writing work

Illustrations that match the text

We learned about important US documents in Social Studies.

Partners playing "Roll and Write" to master our new phonics patterns.

Roll and Read is fun also!

Roll and write Example

We kicked off a new Mystery Science unit with an Iceboard anchor phenomenon to get us hooked and invested.

Mathematicians sharing their partner work with the class

Sample of our math work this week

All About Soccer

All About Birds

We also practiced reading data in math.

Kids love doing the math routine "Same but Different" where they search for similarities and differences.