What an exciting week last week! I was so very impressed with each of you in the show. You all made the perfect little woodland creatures! My Mom really enjoyed meeting all of you!
This coming week is Character Counts week. Each day we will talk about a different pillar and what it means to uphold those traits throughout our life. Each day if you would like, we will be wearing certain colors to represent the pillars. The colors will be listed on your assignment sheet as well as on the Eagle Eye.
Last week…
Even with our crazy schedule last week, we managed to do a lot of learning.
In Reading- We reviewed our vocabulary from ‘Princess and the Pizza’ and ‘Grandpa’s Teeth’. We used our vocabulary as passwords to move around the classroom as well as to leave the classroom. We played vocabulary BINGO with our words from both weeks. Once we made our BINGO cards the game was a lot of fun. This week we also had vocabulary flashcards posted on the blog page for extra practice. Everyone seemed to enjoy this new way to study. The class worked hard to use all of our vocabulary words and managed to get 4 words up to our word windows.
Math- We continue to move through Unit 7. This week our most fun lesson was our Wubbles lessons. In this lesson we continue to look at multiplication but in a different way. A Wubble is a creature who doubles every day. You were only allowed to bring one friend home for Spring Vacation, yet by the end of the trip you were left with 128 Wubbles. What are you going to do? You’re probably going to get in trouble with your mother if she finds out! Ask your second grader and see if they remember our solution to this odd problem.
We also began to look at measurement with a special look at length of jumping and arm span. We will continue to look into measurement in our upcoming days.
Writing- We are so very close to finishing out All About Books. I think we are all going to learn a lot about the interests of our class. If you would like to learn to swim, play basketball or baseball, learn about rocks, fish or gymnastics we will have a book for you.
Spelling- While we did not have spelling last week, due to our short week, we will continue with our spelling sorts this coming week.
Social Studies (UBD)- Everyone is doing such a fantastic job taking notes that are focused and really covering your country topics. We have finished our note taking on all three of our chosen topics. We will move onto sorting our notes and start to learn how to determine which facts are most important in what would help a new student the most when coming to Arlington Heights and Ivy Hill.
