Weekly News for 2-P 4-4-25
Second Grade Concert on April 15th
from 6-6:30 p.m.
*In math we practiced strategies to add big numbers, specifically decomposing one or both addends and adjusting numbers to friendly numbers before adding. The kids are making use of their strong place value skills as they do this work. We are also progressing with telling time to 5 minute intervals.
*We continued our force and motion unit with an investigation that combined magnets and engineering. In this lesson, students investigated magnetic attraction and repulsion. In the activity, “Invent a Magnetic Lock,” students appled their scientific ideas about magnets to create a useful product: a magnetic lock that can open a paper door. Students engaged in the engineering design process to test and improve their designs.
*In writing we wrote another persuasive piece; this time an essay to convince others about a location for a great field trip. We worked hard to organize our essay into more than 3 paragraphs! We are learning to support our reasons with specific examples. Our grammar connection this week was working on expanding the predicate in a sentence with “why details.” We revised our pieces to include at least one such detail.
*Our reading workshop time was spent exploring fairy tales. We read many different ones and got familiar with common features in a fairy tale, such as good and evil characters, forest or castle settings, elements of magic or talking animals. Students filled out fairy tale charts as they examined each story for these elements. They loved the chance to read different versions of fairy tales too.
*Our focus was on r controlled vowels in spelling this week. During our phonics time we learned about less common r controlled vowels in 2 syllable words and patterns that make the -ear sound in words.
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| Working on our magnetic doors |
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| We had to find a way to make a lock that would open with a magnet. |
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| We made door. models and designed several lock ideas. |
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| Free Choice Friday Fun! |
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| Door and lock model |
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| Getting the door ready and testing out the magnet |
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| Fairy Tale Chart |
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| Amazing 3 digit addition |
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| Math group working hard on decomposing big numbers to add |
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| 2nd Trimester Award Recipients |
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| Hard at work on spelling! |
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| A little April Fool's Fun |
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| We went outside to try to find the elusive Lipra Loof bird! |
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| Recess fun! |
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| Trapeze experimenting in process! |
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| Setting up the trapeze experiment |
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| Getting ready to release the "trapeze" |
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| Great teamwork! |
