Weekly News 11-13-26

 Weekly News for 2-P 11-13-26

*Conferences are Monday, November 23rd from 12:00-6:00 pm.  If you haven’t signed up yet, there are still spots available.

*Monday and Tuesday (November 23rd and 24th) are half days with noon dismissal.

*We had a presentation from Lynn Vajda, our speech therapist, on Tuesday about her career as a veteran. This was so impactful for students to hear! 

      *In math this week we kicked off Unit 5, which will focus on strategies to fluently add within 100. We worked on doubles facts and how we can decompose one addend of an addition fact to make adding more efficient. We also practiced turnaround facts and adding 2 two-digit numbers using place value strategies. We are playing lots of fun games to practice our facts and improve our mental math skills.

*During reading workshop we continued to connect our reading with our science unit. We focused on reading nonfiction texts about seeds, plants and pollination. We worked on the skill of “going back to the text” to pull out facts and the main idea, and also to draw conclusions.

*In writing workshop we turned our attention to writing news stories, which was a fun change. Some topics included our Chewonki visit, new pets and the new balls purchased for our playground. Students got a chance to practice writing a piece that answers who, what, where, how and why information about their topic. It was a challenge to keep it to the facts but we persevered!

* In our phonics program we worked on r controlled vowels. There are a lot of words that have r controlled vowels! Time, exposure and practice help students know which vowel is the one to choose as they learn to spell these words. 

*We completed two more Mystery Science investigations this week and wrapped up our plant adventures unit with a special virtual field trip to three special places in Death Valley!  One was designed to help us think about plant habitats and how much water and sun a plant needs and another was to see if a plant can survive without light. We are checking our radish experiment daily and the kids love watering and caring for them. Our observational skills are growing! 

We are getting our portfolios ready for our families! 

Drawing how our radishes looked after two weeks

Cold weather? Better jump rope to stay warm!

Playing a doubles math game!

We love to play math games to learn our facts!

Our young scientists loved our visit to Death Valley - we saw three special parts of the area on a virtual field trip and compared the source of water in each location!

Mrs. V did a wonderful Veterans Day presentation for our grade in the forum. We learned a lot!

New math game called SCOOP - we loved it!

We did a fun experiment that helped us learn about how plants in different habitats can thrive or die.

We had lots of questions about the MREs Mrs. V brought to share.