Weekly News 12-20-24

 Weekly News for 2-P 12-20-24

  

  School resumes on Thursday, January 2, 2025! Happy Holidays to you all!

          *In math we did lots of review work on addition strategies and completed the unit 5 assessment. Students are growing in leaps and bounds with their ability to decompose and adjust numbers, then check their answers on the  number grid for accuracy. 

*In writing workshop we revised, edited and published our invention reports. We learned to write paragraphs for this piece and did a separate paragraph for the beginning, middle and end. We continue to work on crafting clear sentences and are all striving toward increased independence with capitalization and punctuation.

*Our spelling work was /k/ sound patterns.  Our phonics work centered on the short and long sounds made by -oo or -u. 

*We had a school-wide holiday sing-along Thursday afternoon and Friday was filled with fun in our classroom community. We engineered the tallest snowmen we could (out of toothpicks and marshmallows), drew holiday penguins, ate popcorn and fruit,  listened to some holiday music, did holiday fun packets and more. What a great group of kids - we have a blast together - and I’m so grateful for their joy every day. 

Enjoying some snacks

Draft of an invention report

Here is our editing checklist

Talented artists!

We each chose a stuffy to hang with us for PJ day on Friday!

We loved doing a "directed drawing" from Kids Art Hub!

Artists at work

Playing games with friends

Addition bingo

Snowman Challenge

Stem challenge on Friday - how tall can you make your snowman?

Busy constructing

We liked working on our holiday fun packets with a cozy "fire" and music.

Holiday Sing Along!

Listening to the other kids' sing!

Social studies work

Hard at work on a final draft

Publishing our reports

We made cocoa mugs with Ms. Sturgeon.

We listed the things that warm us up!

Peer review work in writing

1st Trimester Award Recipients