Weekly News 10-18-24

 Weekly News for 2-P 10-18-24

*Sneakers Mondays for PE 

*Library books due back on Wednesdays

        

*This week we completed the unit 3 test in math that focused on number patterns. We grew our skills by counting by 2,s 5s, and 10s within 3 digit numbers. We will continue to practice that skill as it can be a tricky one. We also practiced making arrays and equal addition sentences. Our next unit will center on problem solving strategies. 

*During reading workshop we worked on reading realistic fiction and identified this genre as books that are made up, but COULD really happen. We read a lot of realistic fiction - next week we will tackle this genre in writing workshop so this helped us get prepared.

*In writing workshop we took our folk tales through revision and editing and published them. The kids really wanted to type them, so they learned to create a google doc and typed their own stories (with some help from Mrs. Pols). Our grammar tie-in for this week was working on compound subject sentences and using conjunctions (and, or) as we write more complex sentences.

*We did -all and -alk words in spelling. During UFLI phonics we worked on -ed endings and -ing endings.

*Our Go2 Science work had us exploring lots of fossils with Beth and Curtis. So many animal teeth to look at! (We got the chance to dig in our own specimen trays this week and had fun searching for “fossils” just like Beth and Curtis!). We are gathering evidence to help support or refute the hypothesis. Next week is our last week of the mission and we will need to analyze all the data we have collected.

*In our Mystery Science work we completed an investigation about birds and how you could design a bird feeder to attract particular birds. This involves thinking about how birds eat, what they eat and how we can make bird feeders safe from cats. We had a lot of fun building the prototypes. We also completed our animal biodiversity study by examining the different habitats of bats who live in Bracken Cave in Texas. We learned that they also live under a bridge in the city nearby. Our observations helped us record what types of animals or plants lived in each habitat.

*We kicked off our first social studies unit by learning about what historians do and how they use primary and secondary sources to learn about the past. It was fun to look at lots of different examples of these sources.

We had an author's circle to share our folk tales on Friday!

Very proud of these young authors!

We started Studies Weekly and learned about historians and sources.

We sorted primary and secondary sources.

We especially liked artifacts and old diaries and maps.

Writing partners got together to practice reading their folk tales.

We are learning to give feedback to our writing partners.

Kids loved this science/art project. These are hanging in our window showing all the bones in our hands and glowing in the sun!

We use an editing checklist for our writing every week.

We labeled subjects and conjunctions in grammar.

More writing partners.

Free Choice Friday-painting

Free choice Friday- dolls and animals

Free Choice Friday - the lego crew

Tracing our hands for our bones science/art project

Doing a movement break with Beth and Curtis.

Beth always leads us in a fun movement break.

We played a new game called "Can you draw on your head?!"

As part of our Mystery Science unit on biodiversity we studied bird habits.

Then we designed bird feeders.

We built our prototypes to fit a particular bird.

Lots of creative work!

Authors working together on their pieces

Beth and Curtis are always digging for bones....

so we did too!

Each kiddo had their own tray and had to hunt through it....

to find their cut up name on a bone puzzle.....

and also some "real" bones!