Weekly News for 2-P 11-15-24
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*Our math work this week was largely reviewing and assessing unit 4 on problem solving. Students worked really hard to show me all that they have learned about strategies for solving problems. We kicked off Unit 5 on Friday which will focus on strategies to fluently add within 100.
*During reading workshop we focused on reading nonfiction texts and pulling out facts and the main idea from the text. There was lots of excitement about the chance to choose their own topics with this work!
*In writing workshop we learned to write descriptive pieces about a chosen “hero” in our life. Students wrote facts and details about this special person and took this piece of writing all the way through the writing process. They wrote some truly beautiful pieces!
*Our spelling pattern this week was long a patterns. In our phonics program we worked on r controlled vowels.
*This week we kicked off our Wabanaki Nations of Maine unit. Using our Wabanaki languages book we learned about where the Wabanaki people live in Maine, what is important to them, and how they love nature. and We especially like hearing what their language sounds like! Our Scholastic News issue helped us see what a pow wow is like and we enjoyed learning about this celebration.
*We also worked on a Social Studies Weekly magazine about democratic principles like justice, equality and truthfulness. We will finish this work next week.
Roll and Red for this week's phonics skills 
We read and wrote about nonfiction in our reader's notebooks.
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| We are getting so good at using rubrics to guide our writing. |
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| We wrote pieces about our heroes. |
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| Our graphic organizer helped us plan our piece. |
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| We are using specific details! |
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| We learned that the Wabanaki people have many words for things that are important to them, like water and the forest, and also storms. |
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| We loved learning about the color words used by the Mi'kmaq people. |
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| A beautiful hero piece |
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| We are labeling conjunctions and verbs as part of our grammar work. |
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| Grampy is a hero! |
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| We learned about a Powwow. |
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| Scholastic News included a video of an acutal Powwow and it was so helpful for us to see this celebration. |
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| A little artwork from a student! |
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| We practiced high frequency words. |
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| We "map" the sounds and practice the heart part (the unexpected part). |
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| We played "Race to Add" in math today! |
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| A fabulous Free Choice Friday creation |
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| Race to Add! |
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| We shared our hero pieces and gave great feedback. |
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| Working in our Wabanaki Languages book |
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| We sorted rules vs. laws during social studies. |
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| As a class we brainstormed about Mr. LIbby as our hero. |
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| Doing magnetic words in UFLI helps us be strong spellers! |
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| We are learning to write good beginnings. |
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| We love to play "What's Missing" to help us spell high frequency words correctly. |
