Weekly News 2-27-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 2-27-26

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

*In math we started unit 8 and worked on money. We reviewed coin values and counted groups of mixed coins, using skip counting strategies. We made combinations of $1 and solved word problems involving money. Next up is telling time.

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*Our reading workshop was spent reading biographies for Black History Month. We learned about Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson and more. Students completed mini posters telling what they learned about these historical figures.

*During social studies we completed our “Economics” unit, learning more about producers, consumers, trade, wants and needs. We also learned about the people in a community who provide goods and services.

 

*In writing we began a two week research project on habitats, which will be a photo essay! Students chose a habitat to research, using Pebble Go and various texts on their topic. They took notes about the habitat’s temperature, plant life, and animal life. On Wednesday we began to draft our essay. We spent time drawing the illustrations that will accompany our report. Our grammar tie-in was learning to recognize appostives and we will learn to use them in our reports.

*Our focus was on -oo words in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced suffixes (er, est, ly, ness, ful).

 

Reading biographies together

Learning about Ruby Bridges

Biography Mini Posters

Building words with ly suffixes

Working on coral reef research

Researching Billie Williams on Pebble Go

Sample notes for our habitat research

Finding more facts about habitats using different sources

Hard at work on a rough draft of our photo essay

Proud researcherss

Team work makes the dream work!