Weekly News 3-12-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 3-12-26

     *Thanks for continuing to send boots and indoor shoes (our playground is very muddy and wet!). 

*In math we kicked off unit 9 with 3 digit addition work. We spent time adding 10 and 100 to 3 digit numbers mentally. Then we practiced adding two 3-digit numbers with and without regrouping. We are using base 10 blocks for this work right now and our place value knowledge is really helping with that! We are also practicing telling time to 5 minute intervals and addition facts every day.

*In reading workshop we worked on identifying how a main character in a fictional book responds to challenges or events and WHY they respond that way. Lots of great work with quality literature and critical thinking skills!

*We continued the annual Chickadee Award program and heard a new book every day in specials. In our booklets we gave each book a star rating, told about the author’s message and recorded our favorite part.

*In Science, as part of our “Material Magic” unit,  we did another investigation about matter, called “Can you really fry an egg on a hot sidewalk?” We learned about insulation and how some materials insulate better than others. It was fun to test different materials to see which would be the best oven mitt. Styrofoam was the winner! 

*In writing we kicked off our third and final writing book of the year and began to learn about opinion writing. Students chose an opinion about school and supported that opinion with reasons and evidence. They felt this work was quick and easy after the longer research piece they just finished. Students revised their work and published final drafts, as always. Our grammar tie-in this week was adverbs.

*Our focus was on double consonant words in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced prefixes and suffixes. We are reading and writing multisyllable words!

 

Donating to the Purple Penny container

Mrs. Babcock read us a Chickadee book.

Sharing our habitat research reports

Free Choice Thursday

Science experiment - using a variety of materials to test insulation

UFLI leader

Science recording sheet

Rainy inside recess fun

The cars are always a hit!

Reading workshop thinking

Opinion writing

Dr. Seuss Cafe (scroll down after for 2 more posts)

 We went to Mr. Shea's room for the annual Dr. Seuss Cafe!

Beautiful menu

Our hosts!

Yummy snacks

A fun jiggly thing to stand on

Your brother might be reading to you!

Reading the menu

Hearing a Dr. Seuss story

The Grinch greeted us

A good time was had by all!

Science!

 This week we kicked off our "Material Magic" unit and learned about absorbency, stiffness and softness. We made "hats" as pat of a challenge - great engineering work.

Weekly News 3-6-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 3-6-26

     *Thanks for sending coats, mittens, hats and boots, plus indoor shoes daily!

*In math we worked on telling time to 5 minute intervals (tricky!) and learned about a.m. and p.m. We did review work for this unit and took the test on Thursday. We will continue to work on both time and money going forward, as they are skills that require lots of practice and repetition. 

*In reading workshop we celebrated Women’s History Month by reading about famous women such as Jane Goodall, Serena Williams, and Helen Keller. Our skill focus was identifying the main idea and answering literal questions about a nonfiction text.

*We kicked off the annual Chickadee Award season this week and got to hear from 3 guest readers already. Students will hear all 10 books and rate them in their Chickadee booklets before the final vote takes place!

*We kicked off our next science unit, “Material Magic.” In this unit, students explore the properties of materials! We will describe and classify different types of materials by properties like hardness, flexibility, absorbency, and the ability to conduct heat. On Thursday and Friday we tested materials for absorbency, softness and stiffness.

*In writing we completed our 2nd week of our habitat research projects. We focused on revision; adding adjectives, facts, captions and definitions. We also, added an appositive (an interrupter that tells about the subject noun). We edited our drafts and wrote final copies.

*Our focus was on dipthongs in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced prefixes (un, re, pre, dis).

 

Doing peer reviews of our habitat reports

Reading is WILD!

Studying famous women

Mr. Libby reads us our second Chickadee Book!