Weekly News 2-6-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 2-6-26

 *Thanks for sending coats, mittens, hats and boots, plus indoor shoes daily!

*In math we started unit 7 and the kids are loving the chance to do some measuring. We are working on the equivalencies of 1 yard = 36 inches = 3 feet. We are practicing measuring around the room with inches, yards and feet - so many things to measure. We also learned about centimeters and meters. The kids are improving their measuring accuracy and are solving simple measurement word problems easily!

*Our reading workshops were focused largely on reading books by Chris Van Dusen to get ready for his upcoming visit next week. We are so excited to meet one of our favorite authors and illustrators. 

*In social studies this week we kicked off a new unit on economics. We learned about natural resources, consumers, producers, goods and services.

 

*In writing we worked on another type of descriptive writing - this time with a journal entry. Students brainstormed events and details about a particular day and then drafted pieces that sequentially relayed the information. We continue to work on creating clear, complete sentences, and using adjectives and details to elaborate on our topics. This week our grammar lesson was on possessives - so we are just starting to learn when to use an apostrophe to show ownership. This will be a work in progress!

*Our focus was on word endings (ing, ed) in spelling this week. During our phonics time we practiced suffixes (silent letter words and reviewed many vowel teams).

*In Go2 Science Beth and Curtis brought us along as they explored lava tunnels and a very unusual forest on the island of Santa Cruz. We also got to see them find MANY Galapagos tortoises and find out how people are trying to protect these interesting creatures! Our mission is closing soon and we haven’t seen any evidence of penguins - Beth and Curtis remind us we have to follow the evidence to do good science! 

Grammar Game "Roll a Sentence!"

Math partners solving measuring problems

Go2 Science Observations

Working with a Guidance guest teacher on ways we can INCLUDE everyone!

Author's Circle- sharing our poems

Playing a fun UFLI game together

Lots of measuring this week

We LOVE our tape measures!

Nonfiction text partner work

FUN SNOW!

Scientists engineering ice boards

Spelling challenge game!

We recorded everything we measured around the room with our tape measures.