2nd Grade Does the Zoo

Before I show you all the wonderful pictures from our AMAZING day at the zoo here are a couple of things we did this week!

Writing:

We wrote an outline for our own fiction stories. The students had to figure out who their characters were going to be, what the setting, problem, and solutions were going to be as well. 

In writing we also are working on correct capitalization. We did some book hunts for capital letters and sorted them into groups. On Monday we will be labeling those groups so that we have a great anchor chart of when we should use capital letters in our writing. 

Reading/Social Studies

We incorporate Social Studies into our literacy time. This week we started exploring different types of communities: rural, suburban, and urban. The first day students students went through and labeled what they noticed in each type of community. 

We also had pajama day this week!

We also spent time this week discussing author's purpose. We use the acronym PIE for Persuade, Inform, Entertain. We looked through different books to decide why the author wrote each book. We will continue to work on this in both reading and writing throughout the year. 

Math

We have practiced our "quick" math facts of using doubles, doubles +1, doubles +2, and -0/-1. The games that students played this week focused on using the facts that we have learned. They are recording lots of math problems each day in hopes that they will become quick memory facts so that they don't need to use number lines/hundreds charts/fingers to do their math facts.

Using their knowledge of -10 to play squares

The highlight of the week was our trip to the Blank Park Zoo!!

I will add pictures as I get them from the different parents that came on our trip, but here are some to get us started. :)

First we had a program from the zoo where they shared 4 animals with us.

Then we toured the zoo! It was a beautiful day to walk around and we all had an amazing time!

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Of course that much fun is exhausting. :)