Weekly News 10-30-26 (Scroll down for Chewonki pics)

 Weekly News for 2-P 10-30-26

  

   

    *In math we worked on two step number stories and dug deep into deciphering what a word problem was telling us in terms of computation - this is hard work! We are making many gains as a class and working cooperatively and collaboratively to solve tricky problems. We reviewed skills and concepts for the unit 4 test, which we started on Friday. We have a benchmark assessment of the first four units next week and then we will start unit 5!

*During reading workshop we read more nonfiction books and focused on text features such as headings, captions, photos, glossaries and the table of contents. We did scavenger hunts in books as we practiced finding these features and also identifying what information they gave us. We read lots of texts about seeds and plants to tie in with our science unit.

*In writing workshop we  switched to informational writing and chose topics for our own how-to books. On a brainstorming chart we planned our introduction, middle (the steps) and conclusion and then composed our first drafts. After revising for signal words (first, next, then, second) we edited and published these pieces! 

*  Our phonics work focused on the open/closed syllable words, the 3 jobs of y, and  -dge and -tch endings.

*We kicked off a new science unit called “Plant Growth and Interactions.” Our first investigation helped us learn how seeds can travel far distances and our second investigation had us making a model called a “fluffadoo” to mimic how some seeds can stick to animals and travel that way! 

*We concluded Mission Cetaceans with Beth and Curtis this week. After the final livestream we charted our data and analyzed the hypothesis. We came to consensus that the hypothesis was true: there are at least 5 species of cetaceans in the waters of the Baja Peninsula!

We wrapped up our current mission by reviewing the data to decide whether we thought they hypothesis was true or false! 

We made fluffadoos to help us see how plants travel.

Flufadoo testing in process

We learned about the bones in our hand and made these cool pictures of our hands.

Jammies!

Testing our seed models to see how they travel

Our Wacky crew!

We loved using our mini banks to practice coin work.

Bats in art!

Mega Star Monday!

Playing Ready Set Add in math!

Lots of Jane Goodalls in our wing!

We loved learning about the super bloom in Death Valley, California.

Chewonki

 

Sam brought lots of artifacts for us to explore.

Small animal skull

Moose bone!

Tippy!

Weekly News 10-23-26

 Weekly 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