Weekly News 10-10-24

 Weekly News for 2-P 10-10-24

*Sneakers Mondays for PE and library books on Wednesdays. 

        

*In math we completed unit 3 and did review work for the upcoming assessment. This week we focused on odd and even number patterns, arrays with repeated addition and equal groups (early multiplication concepts). We practiced our doubles and doubles plus one facts also.

*During reading workshop we focused on folk tales as a genre and read many different tales. We identified the common traits of a folk tale and practiced naming the moral or lesson of each one. We also got more practice naming story elements, which helped us with our writing focus. 

*In writing workshop we turned to writing folk tales. After reading many models we started to design our own. We brainstormed ideas and used a graphic organizer to plan our folk tales. With the short week, we weren’t able to finish, but we wrote great first drafts that we will revise next week. Our grammar tie-in was on compound subjects and conjunctions.

*We have completed our 5th spelling unit on short u words.  Next up is -all and -alk words. In our UFLI phonics program we worked on -es and -ed endings (the 3 sounds that this suffix can make).  Students are so engaged in building words with magnetic letters and writing new spelling patterns in their mini dictation notebooks!

*In Go2 Science we got to go along with Beth and Curtis as they found teeth from two non-avian dinosaurs. We learned how water erosion can help expose fossils. 

On Thursday we said goodbye to our wonderful classmate and had a special celebration to honor him!

A big sister visits for Morse 9th Grade Community Service Day!

We worked in groups to take a noun and turn it into a sentence.

We practiced planning our folk tales together on the big board.

We sketched or wrote what we remembered about a folk tale we listened to.

Playing UFLI review games!

Practicing -es and -ing endings

Some buddy reading

Chief Merrill teaches us about the fire truck.

We played the Array Game in math.

Learning lots of fire truck facts

We got good reminders to learn our addresses!

We also got to learn about the ambulance.