I had a very exciting weekend! I was able to go to my first Bears game today! Even though we did not win, it was such a fun day! I hope you all had some fun this weekend as well!
Reading: We read a wonderful story 'The Patchwork Quilt' last week. This story prompted such wonderful conversations all week. As a class we continued to discuss generations and how maybe our grandparents would create a quilt, whereas our generation may just go to the store and buy a quilt. Is either way better? The class also had a great discussion about how quilts tell stories. Last week our focus was learning different genres. We reviewed fantasy as well as the elements of realistic fiction.
Math: We are coming to an end in Unit 4. We continue to work on addition strategies as well as estimating. As a reminder- sometimes estimating is appropriate and students should know how to estimate as well as find an exact answer. If your second grader is ever stuck with estimation please try to help them change one or both numbers to a close but easier to add by. Our rule in class is to change one of the addends to a number that we can count to and reach by 10s.
Social Studies: Everyone has been thrilled to see Social Studies on our schedule. We will be continuing to learn map skills and talk about 'us on the map', our place.
Writing: We learned about quotation marks last week, "Hooray"! We have been turning our fantastic interview with Mrs. Crowley into a quilt. We are making strong connections between reading and writing this week. Each quilt square has included on it the question asked by someone in class with the answer and an illustration. We will be finishing these and creating our quilt next week.
Upcoming Events:
Friday: "Traveling Towards Good Behavior" Party
-Wear your PJ's
- Bring a blanket for our movie
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