Happy Weekend!
Our week in 2D was full of laughs and challenges. The students worked hard on new challenges and did so well! Please remember that tomorrow, Monday the 26th is Johnny Appleseed Day. Please have your child bring one or two apples with them to school for our fun filled day. It is also an early release day on Wednesday the 28th. The students will be dismissed at 12:50.
Reading
This week in reading we talked about strategies to help us keep going and meeting our reading stamina goal. We also focused a lot on stop and jots. This is basically note taking but the students did so well training themselves to stop, think and jot. We talked about the different reasons why you would stop and jot and came up with many. Here are a few we used- when we have a connection, we have an idea, when we have a wonder, when we find something interesting and when we picture something in our mind. The students did so well with this and were asking for MORE sticky notes!
Writing
This week we focused on our small moments and I was blown away. The students focused on adding details to their moments and really took their time on this one piece of writing. We looked at a small moment by comparing it to a watermelon seed. If the whole watermelon is your entire summer vacation and a slice of watermelon is one day of your summer vacation, we want to zoom in on one tiny seed from that day. Along with details, we talked about adding a hook (an engaging first sentence) to draw the reader in. We then took time to slow down and talk about spacing between letters and words. We also talked about punctuation and capitalizing the appropriate letters in a sentence.
Word Work
This week we practiced more challenging words in our word centers. The students did very well on their Friday word test and they were so excited to be tested on their weekly second grade sight words! Thank you for working on those at home, it is definitely evident!
Math
In math this week we talked about making the same number with different number sentences. We also talked a lot about even and odd numbers. The students learned a fun trick to tell if a number is even or odd. We began working with place value and figuring out if numbers are greater than, less than or equal to other numbers.
Science
We are currently investigating magnets and magnetism. We started our investigation in our room and found many objects that were magnetic and then we found many objects that we thought would be magnetic but weren't. The students have objects they want to test next and then we will be looking into the other questions we came up with, such as can magnets work with another object in between? The students are so excited to do some testing.
Dragonfly News
Monday September 26th- Johnny Appleseed Day
Wednesday September 28th- Early Release Day 12:50pm
I will see you today at the parade!
Have your dragonfly tell you if this number is even or odd:
898,772,355,902,429
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