What an amazing week! 2-Gers helped favorite book characters come to life on Character Dress Up Day. The creativity in the room knocked my socks off! It was so wonderful to share our love for reading and to inspire readers to try out new kinds of books. During our celebration, students stood up to share who they chose and why. We loved hearing about lots of personal connections to characters, as well as love for adventure. Please enjoy these additional highlights of our studies:
Literacy: Readers learned how to do our new center called, "Making Sentences" this week. We are working on putting segments in order and attending to capitalization and punctuation. Another big element of this center that carries over into our reading and writing is checking our work. 2Gers continue to focus on rereading sentences to make sure that they make sense.
Wrting Workshop: We are getting ready for publishing day! Writers have been listening to elements of Jane Yolen's book, Owl Moon. This beautiful book models how to take one small moment and stretch it across several pages, while including great details. In one lesson, we listened to Jane's words and responded by sharing what "moved" us.
Math: Mathematicians continue to build our knowledge of place value. This week we played a game called, "Pairs to 100" that required students to work on trading ones to tens and tens to hundreds. Mathematicians are doing an amazing job working through centers. A skill that we are working on building throughout each unit that we study is any number plus or minus ten.
Fundations: 2Gers focused on the vowel teams, "ea", "ee", and "ey". We are learning rules to help us determine which one should be used and why. Students are frequently pointing out vowel teams we've learned during all of our studies. Ask your 2Ger to help you find some during nightly reading! Next week, we'll work on "ou" and "ow".
Science: Scientists are doing an incredible job learning about nutrition. This week we learned about the "Others" - treats that are better to have once in a while. Ask your scientist to tell you all about the royal food groups and how they help us stay healthy.
Enjoy your week!
Literacy: Readers learned how to do our new center called, "Making Sentences" this week. We are working on putting segments in order and attending to capitalization and punctuation. Another big element of this center that carries over into our reading and writing is checking our work. 2Gers continue to focus on rereading sentences to make sure that they make sense.
Wrting Workshop: We are getting ready for publishing day! Writers have been listening to elements of Jane Yolen's book, Owl Moon. This beautiful book models how to take one small moment and stretch it across several pages, while including great details. In one lesson, we listened to Jane's words and responded by sharing what "moved" us.
Math: Mathematicians continue to build our knowledge of place value. This week we played a game called, "Pairs to 100" that required students to work on trading ones to tens and tens to hundreds. Mathematicians are doing an amazing job working through centers. A skill that we are working on building throughout each unit that we study is any number plus or minus ten.
Fundations: 2Gers focused on the vowel teams, "ea", "ee", and "ey". We are learning rules to help us determine which one should be used and why. Students are frequently pointing out vowel teams we've learned during all of our studies. Ask your 2Ger to help you find some during nightly reading! Next week, we'll work on "ou" and "ow".
Science: Scientists are doing an incredible job learning about nutrition. This week we learned about the "Others" - treats that are better to have once in a while. Ask your scientist to tell you all about the royal food groups and how they help us stay healthy.
Enjoy your week!
