Writing
The students have been hard at working writing many types of
poems! So far they have done: List poems, “two-words-on-a-line” poems, riddle
poems, concrete poems, and diamond poems. It has been so fun to hear all of
their ideas for writing poetry! They will be assembling these into poetry books
at the end of our unit.
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| Reading through poetry books |
Reading
This week the class used a lot of their literacy work time to
finish up their planet research and create planet posters. They have used both
books and computers to do research. It has been good practice to work
collaboratively in small groups.
Students also did some work with the difference between facts
and opinions. We will use this learning to do some opinion writing during May.
Over the next couple of weeks I will be pulling individual
students to do their reading benchmarks. For this I read with each child
(usually 2 or 3 stories) and they tell me all about what they have read. These
help form my reading instructional groups.
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| Moon phases with mini oreos! |
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| Writing sentences about the moon |
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| Facts and opinions with Skittles |
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| Mercury |
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| Venus |
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| Mars |
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| Jupiter |
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| Saturn |
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| Uranus |
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| Neptune |
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| Pluto |
Math
We have spent some time reviewing many 2nd grade
concepts. Our biggest focus this week has been on rounding (so we can work on
making estimates next week). We practiced round 2 and 3 digit numbers to the
nearest 10 and nearest 100. The class will apply this next week when they work
on making estimates.
We also learned about splitting rectangles, squares, and
circles into equal shares. The class practiced with halves, thirds, and
fourths.
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| Creating equal shares with squares |
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