Weekly News

 Weekly News for 2-P 4-11-25

Second Grade Concert on April 15th from 6-6:30 p.m.

Students should be there by 5:45. 

   

*In math we did the assessment for unit 9 and kicked off unit 10 on subtraction, working to subtract 10 and 100 from 3 digit numbers. Then we learned to use base 10 blocks to represent and solve subtraction problems. The kids immediately noticed they could apply the strategies from our addition work into this new unit.

*Beth and Curtis introduced our last mission of second grade on Tuesday - Mission Biodiversity in Borneo. We heard from biologist, Dr. Whitman, who wants us to go to the island of Borneo to test her hypothesis that forests with large trees will have greater biodiversity than forests with smaller trees. We are excited to follow along on the journey!

*In writing we began our last persuasive piece; a book report. Students chose a favorite book and began by filling out a chart with key details; title, author, setting, characters and plot. Then they went a step further and recorded the beginning, middle and end. Next we began to draft our introductory paragraph! We completed our four paragraph draft and will revise and publish next week.

*Our reading workshop time was spent exploring poetry. We read so many different types of poems and learned to find rhyming pairs and interesting words. We learned to summarize poems and create mental images of what we read. Students loved reading poems with friends and worked to record their thinking on a poetry response page. They LOVED collecting tokens on “Poem in Your Pocket Day!”

*Our focus was on r controlled vowels again in spelling this week. During our phonics time we learned about less common spelling, such as  -ear, -are, -air patterns and alternate long a patterns (ei, eigh, ea, ey). 

 

Book Club - hard at work on nonfiction text work

GREEN DAY!

PJ STUFFY DAY!

We loved the blueberry ice cream!

Trying to cheer up our fish, Pickles, who sadly didn't make it through the week. :(

"Here's the result." EMPTY! 

Free choice Friday!

Rocket Math practice

Book Report in progress

Poetry response sample

book report planning sheet

Rehearsal for our concert!

FRIDAY's Tray- amazing!