We had another fantastic week in 2-G! On Thursday, we turned our classroom upside down during our fort building party - what a blast! Students worked together to design creative spaces to play in for our Community Cube Jar fill-up celebration. Please enjoy these additional highlights of our studies:
Literacy: Readers are doing an amazing job in Literacy centers. A big goal for all readers is to really think about what is going on in the story as we read. Have your 2-Ger talk with you about they book they're reading at home. We are learning to come up with describing words to talk about characteristics of the people and/or animals in our books. We also learned about compound words this week and got to play a "Match it" game to create words.
iPads: Mrs. Mazzocchi, our computer teacher, came to show us how to use our new iPads. We learned how to play an awesome math/fact fluency game called, "Sushi Monster". Now we have iPad math as one of our math stations every day!
Social Studies: This week 2-G started to learn about kids and their families in Japan. We learned that just like the United States, Japan has lots of different types of land and many different types of homes. We also loved exploring the Japanese flag and its meanings. On Tuesday, we did a special project to prepare for our upcoming Thanksgiving Feast. We wove our placemats that we will use on our special day. They look beautiful!
Science: Scientists practiced doing a magnified drawing. We are learning to draw a circle in our observation journals and draw just what we see through our loupes.
Math: Mathematicians are working on creating and solving story problems. We learned that each story problem is set up just like a number sentence. Each has 3 parts: 1. An amount you start with, 2. An amount that is added or taken away, and 3. A sum or difference in the end. We had so much fun bringing numbers to life!
Enjoy your week.
Literacy: Readers are doing an amazing job in Literacy centers. A big goal for all readers is to really think about what is going on in the story as we read. Have your 2-Ger talk with you about they book they're reading at home. We are learning to come up with describing words to talk about characteristics of the people and/or animals in our books. We also learned about compound words this week and got to play a "Match it" game to create words.
iPads: Mrs. Mazzocchi, our computer teacher, came to show us how to use our new iPads. We learned how to play an awesome math/fact fluency game called, "Sushi Monster". Now we have iPad math as one of our math stations every day!
Social Studies: This week 2-G started to learn about kids and their families in Japan. We learned that just like the United States, Japan has lots of different types of land and many different types of homes. We also loved exploring the Japanese flag and its meanings. On Tuesday, we did a special project to prepare for our upcoming Thanksgiving Feast. We wove our placemats that we will use on our special day. They look beautiful!
Science: Scientists practiced doing a magnified drawing. We are learning to draw a circle in our observation journals and draw just what we see through our loupes.
Math: Mathematicians are working on creating and solving story problems. We learned that each story problem is set up just like a number sentence. Each has 3 parts: 1. An amount you start with, 2. An amount that is added or taken away, and 3. A sum or difference in the end. We had so much fun bringing numbers to life!
Enjoy your week.
