Reading, Reading and More Reading! We Are Readers!!

Learning highlights from the week:

Math-  First graders finished up their investigation on fractions. Next week students will start a week-long unit on telling time to the hour and half hour. Second graders continue working on adding and subtracting 10’s and 100’s to numbers over 100. They are learning strategies to use place value to solve the problems.

Reading-Students continued their work with silent e or r controlled vowels.  Students are also in book clubs. Some books are Go Dog Go, Bink and Gollie, Owl Diaries and Merlin Mission - A Perfect Time for Pandas.  

Science-  This week we started a new life science unit on plants! We have beans germinating! Next week we will plant them. 

Mindfulness-  We continue to focus on optimism as well as how to use mindfulness to help us regulate our energy and emotions during the day. We have also spent the week reviewing classroom and schoolwide expectations.

 

Creating Our Very Own Board Games!

Learning highlights from the week:

Math-  First graders finished up their  work on measuring using both standard and non standard units and have started an investigation on fractions. Second graders continue working on adding and subtracting 10’s and 100’s to numbers over 100,

 Reading-Work this week groups worked on various phonics skills. Some students are working on longer blends and others on R controlled vowels.  Students are also looking for character traits, problems and solutions in their reading.    

Writing-  The exciting work of opinion writing. This week students selected a piece of famous art and wrote their opinion about it. They also wrote a review of their favorite movie or show.

Mindfulness-  We continue to focus on optimism as well as how to use mindfulness to help us regulate our energy and emotions during the day. We have also spent the week reviewing classroom and schoolwide expectations.

 

 

Circus Time in PE and Opinion Writing!

 

Learning highlights from the week:

Math-  First graders have been working on measuring using both standard and non standard units.  Today they worked with a partner to measure themselves to see how tall they were.

 Second graders have been working on adding and subtracting 10’s and 100’s to numbers over 100.  

Example:  

Number	10 Less	10 More	100 Less	100 More
186	176	196	86	286
403	393	413	303	503

Students have been building these numbers with place value blocks to give them a concrete model.  The goal is to be able to have students do this computation without the use of concrete models.

 Reading- Our word work this week centered around r controlled vowels and longer blends. We are also working on character traits both physical and non-physical.

Writing- We started Friday letters back up yesterday! Our learners were excited to send home a letter! We are also working on opinion writing! This week we learned the difference between a fact and an opinion. 

Mindfulness-  The unit on optimism continues through the end of March. I am optimistic that this weather will soon bring us warmer days and sunny skies.