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| Indoor Recess Monday |
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| Paint Crew |
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| Reading Fairy Tales with partners |
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| They made a whole town! |
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| Paper Tower Designs |
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| Engineering a sturdy paper tower |
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| Our first design needed to be 12 inches tall! |
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| Amazing spelling! |
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| And this second challenge had to be 6 inches and hold a book. Very hard! |
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| Prefix/suffix sorting |
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| We created longer wrods |
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Weekly News for 2-P 3-20-26
*Parent/Teacher conferences are happening next Thursday between 12pm - 6pm. Both Thursday and Friday of next week (3/26 and 3/27) will be half days for students, with dismissal happening at 12pm.
*In math we worked on regrouping ones and tens when adding 3 digit numbers. We used our place value knowledge (decomposing numbers) to help us do this and also learned the strategy of decomposing only one number and using an open number line to solve. Another strategy added to our repertoire was to adjust addends to friendly numbers. Because we did all these strategies during our earlier addition unit, they were familiar to students.
*Our reading workshop time was spent exploring fairy tales. We read many different ones and got familiar with common features in a fairy tale, such as good and evil characters, forest or castle settings, elements of magic or talking animals. Students filled out fairy tale charts as they examined each story for these elements. They loved the chance to read different versions of fairy tales too.
*We finished the annual Chickadee Award program and heard the last three books. We will vote in library with Ms. Luchies next week and can’t wait to find out the schoolwide results.
*As we continue to learn about materials and matter, we did a fun exploration called “Can you build a house out of cards?” Students worked hard on two challenges to build towers using only index cards and paper clips. The teamwork and perseverance was fantastic. We had a lot of success and had to think really hard about the properties of materials that make them fit or unfit for building.
*In writing we worked on a persuasive speech. Each child came up with an idea of a club they would like to start at school. Their speech was written to persuade others to join the club and ended with a “call to action.” Our grammar tie-in was prepositions and prepositional phrases.
*Our focus was on -er and -est suffixes in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced suffixes and prefixes and doubling rules for words that end with one vowel and one consonant before we add a suffix (i.e. hopping, bagged, bigger, flattest).
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| The MUD TEST! |
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| Our "data" |
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| They were able to make balls with two different soil types |
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| Messy experiment |
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| This one aced the clump test |
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| Teamwork! |
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| Mixing and checking |
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| Stirring process |
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| Toothpick test |
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| Proud persuasive Writers |
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!
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| Donating to the Purple Penny container |
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| Mrs. Babcock read us a Chickadee book. |
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| Sharing our habitat research reports |
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| Free Choice Thursday |
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| Science experiment - using a variety of materials to test insulation |
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| UFLI leader |
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| Science recording sheet |
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| Rainy inside recess fun |
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| The cars are always a hit! |
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| Reading workshop thinking |
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| Opinion writing |
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