Weekly News 5-10-24

 Weekly News for 2-P 5-10-24

     *Author Melissa Stewart will be at WCS on May 14th!

*Run Club is WEDNESDAY next week.

 

*In social studies we learned about important patriotic symbols of our country (the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam and the Liberty Bell).

*In math we worked on fractional units of length, reading and writing money amounts in dollar and cents notation. We also practiced trade first subtraction, estimating money amounts and place value with big numbers. The kids loved playing a place value game called “Last Person Standing” on Friday. We worked with multiplication and equal number group stories as well.

*We continued to read books by author Melissa Stewart. We loved learning that the reason she writes nonfiction animal books is that she used to be a biologist! Ms. Luchies is preparing us so well for our visit with Ms. Stewart.

*Our reading and writing workshops were integrated with our science focus on birds and their adaptations.  After building background knowledge about birds last week, we tackled our first research project on a seed eater; the blue jay. We read many books and each got our own research packets about blue jays. It was fun to watch several videos to see these birds in action. We also listened to their calls. Students learned how to take notes on a graphic organizer. Next we practiced how to organize a report with a topic sentence, details and a conclusion. It was a big goal to figure out how to take notes and turn them into complete sentences. Second graders practiced drawing accurate blue jay pictures with how-to drawing guides.  We wrote final drafts of our reports and next week we will make a pop up blue jay project! 

*Our spelling focus was compound words.This was the last spelling unit of the second grade program. This means there won’t be more spelling lists from our Spelling Connections program. We will continue to practice spelling in our UFLI phonics lessons daily. In phonics we worked on low frequency patterns that make the long a sound and the long u sound). 

Fun art project with Mrs. Devin

Working on money-paying for items in various ways

A "Bird Club" has been created. Inside recess was a great time to sing fellow birders up!

Using nonfiction texts to take notes about blue jays

Working to learn the color pattern of the blue jay

We wrote our first report!

This is how we take notes about birds in this unit

Practicing drawing a realistic blue jay

We used our graphic organizer to turn our notes into sentences.

We tried many drafts of our drawings to get it just right

Looking great!

We spent some time decorating 3D bouquets for our moms - poems included!

Mr. H tired us out at Fitness Friday!