Weekly News 10-23-26

 aWeekly News for 2-P 10-23-26

*Sneakers Mondays for PE 

*Library books due back on Fridays

  * Chewonki visits for  "Mammals of Maine” on Monday morning!     

*In math we are steadily moving through Unit 4, 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 equations that help them find the unknown number. 

*During reading workshop we turned to nonfiction and read a lot of informational how-to books that give step-by-step directions on how to do or make something. We learned the characteristics of this genre and read many examples so that we could write our own. This prompted us to try one of the how-to experiments - making a liquid rainbow! 

*In writing we did the narrative writing prompt to showcase our skills with crafting a piece of writing in this genre. These will be scored and shared at conferences. We turned to nonfiction writing toward the end of the week, beginning our own how-to pieces. This work will continue next week.

*Our phonics work focused on open and closed syllables and word ending patterns, specifically -tch and -dge.

*In our Go2 Science work Beth and Curtis got a visit from a curious cetacean and we got to see how a cetacean flipper compares  to the human hand! We enjoyed some underwater filming and saw lots of bottlenose dolphins below the surface! We have lots of cetacean data recorded so far. 

*Our social studies work this week focused on studying landforms, learning the 7 continents and labeling a world map.

Planetarium!

building -dge words in UFLI

Playing Time Bingo Friday!

New addition to Free Choice Friday

These fellas made a train track that brought you right to a zoo full of animals!

Our submission for the Book Character Contest

Along with its companion pumpkin, done by Mrs. Vise's class

We read how-to books and one was about how to make a liquid rainbow.

We had to conduct the experiment!

Making creepy carrots!

Look at all the ways we can decompose 64!

Nonfiction book response

Sharing our writing

We went to see Mr. Libby working on the roof.

Coin Graph

Practicing money amounts

Writers sharing

Weekly News 10-16-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 10-16-26

*Sneakers Mondays for PE 

*Library books due back on Fridays

*Planetarium Visit (@ WCS, Friday, 10-23)

*Glow Run ( 10-23)

        

*This week we kicked off unit 4 in Reveal Math. We learned how to solve word problems using addition and subtraction equations. Part of this is reading a problem carefully to figure out what the unknown quantity is. We used “part-part-whole” diagrams to help us organize our information and practiced putting a ? in place of the unknown quantity.

*During reading workshop we worked more on reading realistic fiction and identifying two reasons a book could really happen. We also worked on telling the problem and solution in these stories.

*In writing workshop we took our realistic fiction stories through revision and editing and published them. We did final copies in Google Docs with some important keyboarding lessons. Students were proud to create stories with action and  dialogue! Our grammar tie in was using pronouns to replace subject nouns in sentences to make our writing flow smoothly.

*During UFLI phonics we reviewed -ed and -ing endings and worked on open and closed syllable words.

*We worked more on our geography unit, learning about continents (we loved singing the continent song) and various landforms. Students made their own map grids. We also learned lots of new vocabulary (plains, rivers, oceans, valleys, mountains) and studied the difference between physical and political maps.

*Our Go2 Science work had us following along as Beth and Curtis looked for cetaceans in San Ignacio Lagoon. We saw a whale spy-

The inspiration for our book pumpkin!

Sequencing number sentences

Uno Addition

Self portraits in art

Fact family math activity

Our creepy carrot pumpkin, painted in art class

Art free time on Friday

Cetacean research

Data from Go2 Science

hopping and got a close look at some gray whales. We also got to see some super cool bones on a beach and a curious whale calf!

 

Weekly News 10-8-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 10-8-26

No school on 10-9 for PD and 10-12 for Indigenous People’s Day

        

*We had a visit from the WCS firefighters on Thursday. As they talked to us about fire safely they reminded us to have a planned family meet up spot for home fire alarms. 

*In math we completed unit 3 and did review work. We took the assessment and portfolios will come home next week to give you detailed information about your child’s progress with these skills. We kicked off Unit 4 which will focus on problem solving! We are writing lots of equations and learning to include the unknown! We are also working on counting mixed coins (pennies, nickels and dimes). 

*During reading workshop we worked on reading realistic fiction and identified this genre as books that are made up, but COULD really happen. We read a lot of realistic fiction - we are  tackling this genre in writing workshop so this helped us get prepared.

*In writing we drafted realistic fiction stories after mapping out characters, setting, plot and the beginning, middle and end. We also wrote our full drafts and learned how to do a peer writing conference. We revised for organization and ideas.  Our grammar tie-in was learning to use pronouns to replace proper nouns in our writing! We will do more revision with this piece next week.

*During UFLI phonics we worked on -ed endings and -ing endings. 

Our social studies work this week focused on the types of communities: rural, urban and suburban. We worked to identify what you might find in each type of community. We enjoyed a virtual helicopter ride over 6 communities and we identified every single one correctly, providing evidence for whether it was rural, urban or suburban.

We made our own grid maps!

Writers give feedback on our realistic fiction stories.

We decided the firefighter's helmet is VERY heavy!

Learning all about the tools on the fire truck.

We got to see a firefighter wearing all the equipment.

Playing a math game called Up and Down!

More map practice

We are responding to realistic fiction!

Working on a realistic fiction book with partners

New heart word game!

types of communities