Weekly News for 2-P 5-12-24
*Author Melissa Stewart will be at WCS on May 14th!
*In math we continued to work on equal shares (fractions), refining our language and understanding of halves, thirds, and fourths. We partitioned shapes into equivalent parts and learned to name wholes. We also dug into place value with bigger numbers and practiced reading, writing and building numbers in the thousands.
*We read lots of books by author Melissa Stewart, who is visiting us very soon. We learned that she writes nonfiction books about animals and shares lots of important facts in her books. Right up our alley!
*We kicked off our annual bird expedition this week, which integrates literacy with science and research. Students enjoyed seeing lots of bird artifacts at our gallery walk in the forum! We learned about the characteristics of a bird and their anatomy. We also got familiar with their feet and beaks as we began to identify how particular feet and beaks help a bird function.
*Our spelling focus was digraphs. In phonics we worked on low frequency patterns that make the /ar/ sound in two syllable words, or the /air/ sound within a word.
*In science we completed our unit on matter with another fun experiment. We learned that the properties of a material are what make them useful for particular jobs. We explored three models of soil to see which would be the best for building. Students had a great time being “Soil Captains” and “Water Wizards” as they put each soil through a sticky test, a clump test and a clean-hands test to see which would be the best soil to build a mud house.
*Our livestreams with Beth and Curtis featured a lot of very interesting animals in Namibia. On one route they explored, we saw some grazers, browsers, AND some carnivore excitement! They also encountered a rather large gathering of elephants at a water hole and we learned about ways elephants can communicate with each other.
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| Using pattern block templates to do fraction work |
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| Expanded notation work |
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| Reading about birds |
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| Labeling bird anatomy |
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| Buddy reading about birds |
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| Concert ready |
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| Looking good! |
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| Science - the stick test - does the material stick to the toothpick? |
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| Stirring the "mud" |
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| More concert cuties |
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| Second grade gals |
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| Stirring the mud |
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| After the first part, using the mud in the cups, we dumped it on and did further investigating |
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| Will it stick to the spoon? |
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| Can we make it into a ball? |
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| Lots of good work on the properties of "mud" that make it good for building |
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| Maine Maritime Trip 2 - learning about lobster traps |
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| The wall of local buoys |
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| Allie teaches us about lobstering on the coast of Maine |
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| We learn all about lobsters and their anatomy |
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This is the "does it stick on your fingers test?"
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| The lobster game begins! |
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| Here are the hungry customers |
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| The lobstermen set out |
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| The chefs await the lobsters |
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| So they can cook them up |
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| Measuring the lobsters to see if they are big enough to keep |
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| Closing the trap! |
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| The director of the lobster pound |
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| Delivering the lobsters to the hungry customers |
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| We were fascinated by this skull Beth and Curtis shared |
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| Bird Gallery Walk |
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| We investigated artifacts |
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| Lots of nests |
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| And feathers |
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| Turkey feathers |
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| We even saw some eggs |
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| Examining owl pellets |
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| We recorded our observations on notecatchers. |
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| We are majorly obsessed with bird web cams! |
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| We jazzed up our roll and read work by making sentences with words we are learning. |
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| Our 8th grade buddies wrote us stories! |
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| Fitness Friday |
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| We can name characteristics of birds. |
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| We are playing Namibia Bingo - seeing so many animals during each livestream is super fun |
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