Happy February! We had an amazing week in 2-G. On Friday, we celebrated Half-Way Day! It is hard to believe that we've been in school for 90 days...time flies when you're having fun in second grade. To celebrate, we created characters that were half one thing and half another. Ask your 2-Ger to share his/her creation with you! Enjoy these additional highlights of our week:
Math: Fractions! This week we started our fraction unit by learning about halves and doubles. We are "halving" so much fun! Next week, we'll focus on thirds and fourths.
Literacy: Our biographies are coming along beautifully. In addition to the research/writing that students are working on, we are also designing timelines. Students are learning to decipher between the main events in someone's life and other information provided in texts.
Social Studies: To wrap up our Japan study, we had 4 special guests come to 2-G to help us learn how to do Japanese calligraphy. Students had the opportunity to use real calligraphy brushes and ink to paint characters that spell out their names. In addition, students got to choose one or two other words to try to write. We have learned so much about Japan and we are excited to share our Animoto Japan movies with you soon.
Writing Workshop: Writers learned to write Japanese Haiku poetry. This 3-line poetry follows a structure of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. All Haiku poems are traditionally about nature. Writers did a wonderful job learning to identify the number of syllables in words and creating beautiful poems.
Fundations: Our spelling patterns this week were, "or" and "ar". We call these types of patterns, "r controlled vowels." We wil continue learning about these types of words next week as we learn about "ir" and "er" words.
Enjoy your first week of February!
Math: Fractions! This week we started our fraction unit by learning about halves and doubles. We are "halving" so much fun! Next week, we'll focus on thirds and fourths.
Literacy: Our biographies are coming along beautifully. In addition to the research/writing that students are working on, we are also designing timelines. Students are learning to decipher between the main events in someone's life and other information provided in texts.
Social Studies: To wrap up our Japan study, we had 4 special guests come to 2-G to help us learn how to do Japanese calligraphy. Students had the opportunity to use real calligraphy brushes and ink to paint characters that spell out their names. In addition, students got to choose one or two other words to try to write. We have learned so much about Japan and we are excited to share our Animoto Japan movies with you soon.
Writing Workshop: Writers learned to write Japanese Haiku poetry. This 3-line poetry follows a structure of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables. All Haiku poems are traditionally about nature. Writers did a wonderful job learning to identify the number of syllables in words and creating beautiful poems.
Fundations: Our spelling patterns this week were, "or" and "ar". We call these types of patterns, "r controlled vowels." We wil continue learning about these types of words next week as we learn about "ir" and "er" words.
Enjoy your first week of February!
