We went to Mr. Shea's room for the annual Dr. Seuss Cafe!
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| Beautiful menu |
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| Our hosts! |
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| Yummy snacks |
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| A fun jiggly thing to stand on |
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| Your brother might be reading to you! |
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| Reading the menu |
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| Hearing a Dr. Seuss story |
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| The Grinch greeted us |
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| A good time was had by all! |
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.
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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).
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| Doing peer reviews of our habitat reports |
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| Reading is WILD! |
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| Studying famous women |
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| Mr. Libby reads us our second Chickadee Book! |
Weekly News for 2-P 2-27-26
*Thanks for sending coats, mittens, hats and boots, plus indoor shoes daily!
*In math we started unit 8 and worked on money. We reviewed coin values and counted groups of mixed coins, using skip counting strategies. We made combinations of $1 and solved word problems involving money. Next up is telling time.
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*Our reading workshop was spent reading biographies for Black History Month. We learned about Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson and more. Students completed mini posters telling what they learned about these historical figures.
*During social studies we completed our “Economics” unit, learning more about producers, consumers, trade, wants and needs. We also learned about the people in a community who provide goods and services.
*In writing we began a two week research project on habitats, which will be a photo essay! Students chose a habitat to research, using Pebble Go and various texts on their topic. They took notes about the habitat’s temperature, plant life, and animal life. On Wednesday we began to draft our essay. We spent time drawing the illustrations that will accompany our report. Our grammar tie-in was learning to recognize appostives and we will learn to use them in our reports.
*Our focus was on -oo words in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced suffixes (er, est, ly, ness, ful).
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| Reading biographies together |
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| Learning about Ruby Bridges |
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| Biography Mini Posters |
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| Building words with ly suffixes |
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| Working on coral reef research |
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| Researching Billie Williams on Pebble Go |
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| Sample notes for our habitat research |
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| Finding more facts about habitats using different sources |
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| Hard at work on a rough draft of our photo essay |
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| Proud researcherss |
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| Team work makes the dream work! |
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!
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| PE FUN |
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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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