I am so proud of our 2-Gers for all of their hard work and accomplishments this week! We are on our way to filling up our Community Cube Jar for the second time. Students have been doing an incredible job practicing their songs for their Winter Concert and they can't wait to share them with you on Wednesday morning. Please enjoy these additional highlights of our studies:
Fundations: Our phonics pattern this week was words that end in, "y". These words can be so tricky because the "y" either sounds like, "e", or "i"!
Literacy: We finished reading our mysteries in guided reading groups and detectives did a great job decoding new words and building fluency. We loved having "Making Words" for one of our centers this week. Students had to make as many words as possible out of the letters in, "snowman". Have your 2-Ger show you what he/she made!
Writing Workshop: Wait until you read these mysteries! Writers are knocking my socks off with their incredible mysteries. We have been learning how to introduce a story and create suspense before talking about a problem that needs to be solved. Our talented gumshoes will share their work with you at our Mystery Morning Share on February 11th.
Math: Mathematicians began to learn about carrying and borrowing. We have a saying that helps us with borrowing called, "Bigger bottom (number), better borrow!" We'll be practicing using these strategies in the upcoming weeks as we engage in many different types of activities that require us to add and subtract double digit numbers.
Science: Scientists learned about momentum in our whole class experiment. We are having so much fun exploring powerful forces that we can not see. We tried knocking over small and large objects by rolling a marble down a track. We determined that the small marble only had enough momentum to knock down smaller objects.
Spanish: Our new Spanish teacher, Profe Mendez taught us how to play, "Loteria". This game is just like, "Bingo" and we had a blast! It was so exciting to see how many Spanish words we already knew.
Read Alouds: In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mrs. Gomes read us three amazing books during snack time: 1. Martin's Big Words, 2. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and 3. The Story of Ruby Bridges. We had some incredible and heartfelt discussions in 2-G about how the world has changed and how it can all start with one person who believes.
Enjoy your week.
Fundations: Our phonics pattern this week was words that end in, "y". These words can be so tricky because the "y" either sounds like, "e", or "i"!
Literacy: We finished reading our mysteries in guided reading groups and detectives did a great job decoding new words and building fluency. We loved having "Making Words" for one of our centers this week. Students had to make as many words as possible out of the letters in, "snowman". Have your 2-Ger show you what he/she made!
Writing Workshop: Wait until you read these mysteries! Writers are knocking my socks off with their incredible mysteries. We have been learning how to introduce a story and create suspense before talking about a problem that needs to be solved. Our talented gumshoes will share their work with you at our Mystery Morning Share on February 11th.
Math: Mathematicians began to learn about carrying and borrowing. We have a saying that helps us with borrowing called, "Bigger bottom (number), better borrow!" We'll be practicing using these strategies in the upcoming weeks as we engage in many different types of activities that require us to add and subtract double digit numbers.
Science: Scientists learned about momentum in our whole class experiment. We are having so much fun exploring powerful forces that we can not see. We tried knocking over small and large objects by rolling a marble down a track. We determined that the small marble only had enough momentum to knock down smaller objects.
Spanish: Our new Spanish teacher, Profe Mendez taught us how to play, "Loteria". This game is just like, "Bingo" and we had a blast! It was so exciting to see how many Spanish words we already knew.
Read Alouds: In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mrs. Gomes read us three amazing books during snack time: 1. Martin's Big Words, 2. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and 3. The Story of Ruby Bridges. We had some incredible and heartfelt discussions in 2-G about how the world has changed and how it can all start with one person who believes.
Enjoy your week.