Writing
This week we started our letter
writing unit. Since the kids have been writing letters all year (to our VIP’s
and in their Friday journals) we really focused on the parts of a letter and
punctuation in a letter.
The students practiced writing friendly
letters to kids in our classroom, and then wrote an answer letter back to their
partner.
Next week they will write to
someone they don’t see often (a grandparent, aunt/uncle, friend who lives far
away) and will get to bring it home to actually mail it!
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| Our letter to the 1st graders |
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| Checklist for parts of a letter |
Reading
In reading this week we discussed
using text evidence. This is where
they need to find proof in their
book to back up their answer. Lots of times 2nd graders think up an
answer, but it’s not always the one that the author is writing about.
As a class we read a book about Florence
Nightingale and practiced using
text evidence to answer questions about a difficult book.
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| Read and Feed! |
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| Mr. Moss (from Ashland Ridge) came to read the class a book as our Mystery Reader |
Math
The focus all week in math was
being able to split (or partition) a
rectangle into equal parts. We practiced using blocks, then using just a
picture of a square, and finally splitting a rectangle into equal parts without
a ruler or block. This will help students once we get to fractions as well as
when we start working on multiplication and arrays.
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| Playing 2 digit subtraction top-it to practice subtraction strategies |
