January 28, 2022

 Good Afternoon,

  I hope you all have had a great week.  It has been a fun week at school and I hope your child has been keeping you in the loop.  

No skid and board day, no worries!  The kids were excited that we had a chance to work on a literature project with the book What Am I? An Animal Guessing Game by Iza Trapani.  The book  has the reader is asked to identify several animals after reading riddles which describe their specific qualities. After we read through the book, the students broke up into teams and created their own animal riddles and illustrations.  These will be turned into a book that I hope to share next week (via the blog).  If you want to hear the original book, check out the video below.

Mr Cadwell missed the last two days this week.  He was suppose to start his social studies unit but that will now start next week.  I instead used the time to finish up our geography unit over the past two days.  We spent the last two days talking about positive and negative consequences that happen when we change natural characteristics of land.  The students also completed the final assessment that involved key vocabulary from the unit.  

Ms Figdor had this to say about 2nd grade math this week: "This week in 2nd grade math we wrapped up a unit on measurement. Students did several activities where they described the height of objects by comparing them to other objects. Through comparing objects students started to think about how fractions could be used when measuring. During Number Corner we learned a new game where the second graders practiced equal group multiplication. Students used repeated addition and skip counting to solve these equal group multiplication problems. Next week our focus will be threes. Students will identify, describe, and extend the counting-by 3s pattern."  First grade math had students working on magnitude of a number by placing a specific number between two no points.  For example, they may see 0 and 100 on each end of a number line.  They would then be asked to place 79.  There placement and explanation would demonstrate to me their understanding of where the number would be placed and why.  There was also work with using efficient strategies to solve more addition problems.  

NOTES:

*I did not send homework bags home today.  

I hope you all have a great weekend.

Peace,

Mr. Young