Weekly News for 2-P 11-11-24
*There is no school next Tuesday (Professional Development Day due to elections) or Monday, November 11th (Veterans Day).
*We are moving through Unit 4 of Reveal Math. We are working hard on problem solving. Our focus has been on representing and solving “add to” problems, “take from” problems, “put together” and “take apart problems,” as well as two step number stories. Students are making great strides creating number sentences (equations) that help them find the unknown number.
*During reading workshop we read a lot of narrative nonfiction, a new genre for us. We learned that these books share non-fiction information in a story format. We learned the real story behind “Winnie the Pooh!” and about the man who created the Crayola crayons.
*In writing workshop we learned to revise our realistic fiction stories by adding dialogue, checking to make sure our sentences used conjunctions (and, or) and for complete plots. We also practiced editing for capitalization and punctuation. On Friday we shared our published pieces and had many proud authors!
*Our spelling pattern this week was high frequency words. Next up is silent e words. Our phonics work focused on the open/closed syllable words and -dge and -tch endings.
*In Social Studies we worked through our newspaper that focused on Community and how we are part of a school and home community, and what responsibilities that entails. We learned a bit about laws and responsibilities as well.
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| Checking out the specimens at our Mammals of Maine presentation |
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| Kyle answering our questions |
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| Moose leg bone! |
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| Getting ready to meet Tippy! |
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| Here she comes.... |
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| Tippy eats! |
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| We got to see her up close too! |
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| Writers shared their revisions this week! |
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| UFLI practice time on slates |
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| Feeding our new fish, Dixie Hop! |
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| Math partners |
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| Decomposing Numbers 3 ways |
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| Playing Halloween Bump in math |
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| Champs at decomposing numbers |
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| Playing "eyeball" math games |
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| We love to prepare for Spelling Celebrations by practicing our UFLI words with games. |
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| Rhythmic drumming! |
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| We did bat crafts with googly eyes to go with our Scholastic News magazine topic. |
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| We learned a lot about how baby bats get raised. |
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| Math partner work |
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| Snack break! |
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| A little painting time |
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| We love Free Choice Friday morning to start our day! |
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| So much great revising this week! |
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| Our finished published stories - two full weeks of work |
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| We made covers for them before we shared! |
