Weekly News 5-8-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 5-8-26

      Next week Run Club is on TUESDAY! 

*On Tuesday both second grades participated in a gallery walk all about birds. We looked at many artifacts; nests, feathers, eggs, bird photos, books, and more. We loved watching a live owl and osprey web cam as well! 

 *In math we are hard at work on Unit 11, studying data and graphs. We are learning the parts of a graph (title, categories, key, labels) and have learned to fill in and analyze picture graphs, bar graphs and tally charts so far. We will work on line plots next week. Students are enjoying the change of pace in math and are finding the word problems in this unit particularly easy after all the problem solving that’s come before.

*Our reading and writing workshops were integrated with our science focus on birds and their adaptations. After building background knowledge about birds last week, we tackled our first research project on a seed eater; the blue jay. We read many books and each got our own research packets about blue jays. It was fun to watch several videos to see these birds in action. We also listened to their calls. Students learned how to take notes on a graphic organizer. Next we practiced how to organize a report with a topic sentence, details and a conclusion. We built on our earlier writing units as we took our notes and turned them into sentences. Second graders practiced drawing accurate blue jay pictures with how-to drawing guides.  Next up we will edit and write final drafts of our reports, then we will make a pop up blue jay project! 

*Our spelling focus was trigraphs. There is only one more week left in the 2nd grade spelling program!  

*In phonics we worked on words with silent t and low frequency sound for /ch/, /gn/, and  signal vowels. As our patterns get more challenging we are doing extra practice. 

This is our notecatcher as we research each bird in this unit.

Taking notes on the blue jay

We strolled to the atrium to look at all the amazing art!

We loved our clay pieces.

On Monday we joined Mr. H in the gym for ACES and we did a quick HIIT routine as a whole school!

Bird partner work

New math game - Roll Down to practice subtraction from 100

We are learning to draw realistic blue jays!