In Reading Workshop this week, we learned how to play a reading game with our partners called "Guess What Comes Next". This game is played with books that have patterns of words. We have to be careful, because as books get harder, the patterns break! We read a ton of bear books this week, too. We read fiction and nonfiction bear books, and bear poems. We even read TO our bears! See the photos below.
As a group, we have learned a lot of sight words. See the photo below to know which ones we've learned together. Everyone also has their individual sight word rings as well.
We sharpened our editing skills in Writing Workshop this week. Check out a morning message that we had to edit in the photos below. We edited our narrative pieces and then celebrated by sharing our work with Mrs. Battersby's second graders!
We continue to measure in math, using wooden sticks as units of measurement this week. We measured hidden lines all over the room. We played a new game called "Double Compare" with a partner. Each student pulled two cards from the deck, added them together to get the
total and then
compared the totals. We also did another Exemplar. If I am making six gingerbread men, and using raisins for eyes, how many raisins will I need for them all?
On Teddy Bear Day, we sang and read to our bears. We wrote about our bears, too. We read the classic book,
Corduroy and then made our own bears to decorate the room. Now we have bears hanging from the ceiling! Last, we tucked them in and said "Goodnight", but they didn't go to sleep! See the photos below to see what they did!
We did one of my favorite lessons in Second Steps this week- we learned about
empathy. Empathy is looking at someone and being able to understand how s/he feels. Please use the word "empathy" at home when appropriate.
News and Notes:
- Book sleeves due Monday.
- Valentines Show (everyone's invited!) on 2/14 at 9:30 am
- Please send back your smocks by next Tuesday.
- Has your child logged on to Raz-Kids at home? Don't forget! I have made an individualized reading account for your child. Check it out.
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| Measuring with sticks |
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| Can you find the 6 errors? |
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| Our new Reading Workshop partners! |
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| Our shared sight word wall |
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| Look at how we found our bears on Friday morning! |
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| Our publishing party! |
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| Celebrating with second graders |
