Weekly News for 2-P 4-17-26
*In math we spent lots of time refining our 3 digit subtraction skills. We often prefer using base 10 shorthand for regrouping as 2nd graders but also have practiced adjusting to friendly numbers, counting up to solve or decomposing one number to solve. We completed the unit 10 test and will keep working on these skills as we enter unit 11 on data analysis after break.
*This week in Go 2 Science Beth and Curtis started their first full day in the Pantanal and encountered wildlife at every turn! We LOVE seeing so many neat animals. Each day we are collecting data about how many adults are in each group of capybaras and how close they are to the water. Later in the week we saw firsthand why capybaras need to stay alert and close to the water!
*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 will LOVE collecting tokens on “Poem in Your Pocket Day” after break.
*Our focus was on r-controlled vowels again in spelling this week. During our phonics time we learned about less common spelling patterns, such as alternate long a (ey, ei, aigh) and words that say /ear/. These are some tough patterns!
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| Tracking our data on capybaras in Go2 Science |
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| Recording drawings from our radish experiment |
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| Money game! |
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| Observing our radishes and how they changed |
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| Slime Party fun! |
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| Tie game! |
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| Slime creation |
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| We loved our blue/purple day treat! |
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