Weekly News for 2-P 2-13-26
*Thanks for sending coats, mittens, hats and boots, plus indoor shoes daily!
*We have been doing the “Literacy Olympics.” For each Olympic event there is a literacy challenge, such as read about a new country, or read an article about the Olympics. We have done many of these as a class and are all at BRONZE medal status. Some kids are opting to bring these home over break to try to achieve SILVER or GOLD!
*In math we introduced the centimeter and meter. Students used metric rulers and meter sticks to measure items around the room. We did a lot of work on finding everyday objects that can help us remember the lengths of feet, inches, yards, meters and centimeters. We also solved word problems about measuring.
*In social studies this week we worked more on our economics unit. We learned about natural resources and how we used them. We also spent time reading about producers and consumers. It was fun to sequence how items we buy get from a farm to a store!
*In writing we wrote drafts of our movie/book description pieces. We used a supportive template that helped kids organize their writing into 3 separate paragraphs. Our revising work was being sure we used adjectives correctly and also making sure we varied our sentence length as we wrote. Our grammar tie-in was practicing adjectives that tell how many (few, some, many, one, five, etc).
*Our focus was on prefixes (re, dis, un) in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced suffixes (s, es).
*In reading workshop we read lots of Chris Van Dusen books, as well as many books related to our Olympic literacy challenge!
*In Go2 Science Beth and Curtis brought us along to another island where they met some new creatures - iguanas and frigate birds. As we wrapped up the mission on Thursday, we realized that the evidence is that there are NO undiscovered penguins on the Galapagos islands. We really wanted it to be true, but we had to follow the evidence because that’s what scientists do!
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| Amazing to see Chris Van Dusen! |
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| Look what he drew for us! |
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| We loved him reaading The Circus Ship to us! |
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