Weekly News 5-1-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 5-1-26

Next Tuesday we take our 2nd trip to Maine Maritime Museum to learn about the lobstering industry!

 *In math we started the week with review work, completed the 3rd Benchmark Math Assessment of the year and then kicked off Unit 11 on Data Analysis. We learned how to fill in a picture graph from data on a tally chart. We will keep practicing our 3 digit addition and subtraction work to help us master those challenging skills. 

*This week we did a mini social studies unit on Civics. We learned vocabulary such as government, leaders, laws and citizens. Big questions we tackled included, “How can one person make a difference?” and “How can leaders help their communities?”  Students asked lots of thoughtful questions and we had rich discussions. 

*In Go 2 Science Beth and Curtis traveled to a new area to continue testing their hypotheses. We are seeing so many interesting animals: ocelots, a tree climbing anteater, monkeys and more! We are collecting lots of data about capybaras and have a suspicion that the hypothesis may be true! 

*This week we kicked off our annual bird expedition and will be integrating science into our reading and writing for the remainder of the year. This is a highly engaging unit that helps students gain research practice and synthesizes many of the skills we have learned in second grade. We began by studying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. Then we learned about their anatomy. Next week we will tackle learning about the function of their beaks and feet.

*In writing we spent the week joyfully creating poetry! We learned how to add rhythm and repetition to our poems, and how to use line breaks effectively. We are really writing beautiful poems from the heart! The energy in the room of young poets was refreshing. They will each be creating a booklet of their own poems to share with their families soon.

*Our focus was on digraphs in spelling this week. During our phonics time we learned about less common spelling patterns, such as alternate long u sounds and the two sounds of ough.

 

We learned about some historical people who did important things for their communities long ago.

Mr. Libby stopped by to hear all of our poems!

Poem in Your Pocket Day is always fun!

We had several "poet share circles" this week to share our amazing writing.

Social studies collaboration work

We published and shared our book reports before turning to poetry for the week!