Weekly News 2-2-24

Weekly News for 2-P 2-2-24

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

shoes daily!

          *In math this week we solved story problems in multiple ways and

completed the assessment for the pilot unit of Illustrative Math. We jumped

back into Everyday Math on Friday with Unit 6 which is “Whole Number

Operations and Number Stories.” 

*As part of reading workshop we read more narrative nonfiction and discussed

how the authors told these true stories in unique ways. Students love learning

about real-life events in story formats! We are working on main ideas, details

and enduring themes as we read these books. 

*Our social studies work focused on how tribal, local and state governments

work. Students enjoyed our “Studies Weekly” video that explained how

tribal nations work. 

*Our focus was on words with ed and ing suffixes in spelling this week. We did

-ew vowel teams in phonics and reviewed all the new vowel teams we have

learned in the last few weeks.  We used our new favorite game, called

SPARKLE, to practice common spelling patterns and high frequency words

this week.

*In science we completed the Mystery Science lesson called “How can you unlock

a door using a magnet?” To investigate magnetic attraction and repulsion we tried to

build a useful product; a magnetic lock that can open a paper door. On Wednesday

we completed this Mystery Science unit with the culminating performance task:

creating an ice board using our force and motion knowledge. Tricky stuff, but

we persevered! It was a beautiful session full of grit, creativity, teamwork, sharing

ideas and encouraging each other. 

*In science and writing we moved into our third experiment and built our own

catapults in teams of three. We revised our designs until we felt they worked

successfully. Our question this time was “Will the cotton ball or ping pong ball

go farther off the catapult?” We had a great time flinging our testers through the

air, collecting data and drawing conclusions. Our hypotheses were accurate!

We love fresh snow on a Monday!

Mystery Science - building a door that can be opened with a magnet

Testing out the design

Success

Roll and Write game with our phonics pattern

Writing our hypotheses for our catapult experiment

Solving problems in math

2-P is very enthusiastic about magnets!

Playing the mirror game with partners

We finished our performance task for our force and motion unit...

We created an ice board

that uses concepts of friction, push and pull

We have been reading Caldecott books with Ms. Luchies. We gave each a star rating and voted at the end.

Mirror game fun!

ice board engineers

Beth and Curtis explored glaciers in New Zealand.

Ice board planning

In math we collected data about our packets and lined up in order of our data.

We each tallied our own information.

Catapult design

And the testing is underway....

Our phonics review was a game they loved called, "FIND AND FIX MRS. POLS's VOWEL TEAM ERROR." They rocked it!

We measured how far the ping pong ball and cotton ball went off our catapults.

Collaborating to record our conclusions after the data was collected.

A little Friday reading time!

Lab booklet - materials list 

Our data table and diagram

And the conclusion

Fitness Friday smiles

Mr. H extends the plank challenge every week!

Boat Pose!

Recording our narrative nonfiction learning

Someone loves the plank challenge!