Weekly News for 2-P 3-28-25
*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. We also practiced telling time, counting mixed coins and our addition facts daily!
*We did the first two sessions of the COGAT this week and will complete the last portion early next week. Students were super flexible with a new learning experience!
*We enjoyed our field trip to the Maine Maritime Museum. The kids loved seeing the Chris Van Dusen exhibit and enjoyed learning about old ships and how cargo is transported from place to place.
*We continued our force and motion unit with an investigation about the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, “Trapeze Tester,” students built a model trapeze. They made observations and took measurements of the motion of that model and used that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze. Then in our next investigation, “What Can Magnets Do,” students explored the surprising properties of magnets and experimented with an invisible force that acts at a distance. In the activity, Magnet Discovery, students used ring magnets and common objects to discover the push and pull of magnets and how magnets attract certain types of metals. The magnets were a big hit!
*In writing we revised, edited and published our persuasive letters to Mr. Libby. We continued to work on prepositions during our grammar connection. Next week is a persuasive essay. Mr. Libby stopped by after reading all of our letters and gave us very positive feedback about the quality of our writing!
*Our focus was on contractions and abbreviations in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced how to drop the e at the end of a word before adding a suffix and how to change the y to an i before adding some suffixes.
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