Way to go, 2-G! We had another wonderful week in 2-G. On Tuesday, we said, "See you soon" to our pre-prac student teacher from Boston College, Julia Holzwassser. We have loved having Ms. Holzwasser in our classroom every Tuesday and in January she'll return to be our full-time student teacher! We are thrilled to welcome her to our community. Please enjoy these additional highlights of our studies:
Literacy: Readers were introduced to our new mystery unit this week. We all worked together to solve, "The Mystery of the Stolen Pumpkins". Over the next weeks we'll be reading mysteries and studying their components and language in guided reading groups. We even get to fill in our own detective logs!
Writing Workshop: Our current writing study focuses on Winter Acrostic Poetry. Each session, writers work on a specific poem. This week we wrote about a jacket, a hat, and a penguin. Writers are challenged with using a variety of describing words. These poems are beautiful and we can't wait to publish them in a few weeks.
Math: Graphs and data, oh my! Mathemticians learned how to collect and represent data with three different types of graphs this week. We learned about bar graphs, picture graphs, and line graphs. On our last day we got to create our own bar graphs and survey our peers. These graphs will soon be on display in our hallway!
Social Studies: Researchers learned about Japanese Schools, origami, and Japanese homes. We loved seeing real images and hearing stories from kids in Japan to help us learn more about their culture. We learned that there are a lot of amazing similarities and differences between the school lives of kids in Japan and our own. On Wednesday we created an origami cup and an origami cat. We now know how important symmetry is in the art of origami and we look forward to creating more in the future.
Workshop: In workshop, 2-Gers are being asked to open their minds and think creatively. On Tuesday, Mrs. Gomes gave us a page with some small designs on it. The challenge was to create something new out of each design. It was so fun to see how every 2-Ger pictured something different. On Thursday, we worked on brainstorming ideas for, "Things that are hot". The list that students came up with would knock your socks off!
Enjoy your week.
Literacy: Readers were introduced to our new mystery unit this week. We all worked together to solve, "The Mystery of the Stolen Pumpkins". Over the next weeks we'll be reading mysteries and studying their components and language in guided reading groups. We even get to fill in our own detective logs!
Writing Workshop: Our current writing study focuses on Winter Acrostic Poetry. Each session, writers work on a specific poem. This week we wrote about a jacket, a hat, and a penguin. Writers are challenged with using a variety of describing words. These poems are beautiful and we can't wait to publish them in a few weeks.
Math: Graphs and data, oh my! Mathemticians learned how to collect and represent data with three different types of graphs this week. We learned about bar graphs, picture graphs, and line graphs. On our last day we got to create our own bar graphs and survey our peers. These graphs will soon be on display in our hallway!
Social Studies: Researchers learned about Japanese Schools, origami, and Japanese homes. We loved seeing real images and hearing stories from kids in Japan to help us learn more about their culture. We learned that there are a lot of amazing similarities and differences between the school lives of kids in Japan and our own. On Wednesday we created an origami cup and an origami cat. We now know how important symmetry is in the art of origami and we look forward to creating more in the future.
Workshop: In workshop, 2-Gers are being asked to open their minds and think creatively. On Tuesday, Mrs. Gomes gave us a page with some small designs on it. The challenge was to create something new out of each design. It was so fun to see how every 2-Ger pictured something different. On Thursday, we worked on brainstorming ideas for, "Things that are hot". The list that students came up with would knock your socks off!
Enjoy your week.
