Good Afternoon,
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| This kid hit a home run during baseball |
We are in the midst of three different projects that all involve some form of reading and writing. The students continued to work on their Pokemon cards and have been really excited about them. We work on these on Wednesday mornings and the students keep asking to have more time to work on them. Most of the kids are now working on writing the opinion piece for the back of the card. We started thinking about our next science unit that looks at animals, their habitats, and other important information. The students spent the last two days looking through different animal books to help them decide which one he/she will focus on. Today they made their decision and started reading more in depth about their animals. We will start with a look at the black bear and I have asked a game warden to come in and speak about their needs, habitat, and other information. The warden will be here 5/19/22 during our science time. The third project will start up on Monday as students start applying what they have learned about writing non-fiction books and create a book about the sugaring process and include their learning about the states of matter.
My hope is that we will have a gathering, in June, where all of this work can be presented. I am working on finding a date and will keep you in the loop.
This week in math, the 1st graders completed their unit 6 assessment. We have also been spending a lot of time on subtraction tasks and problems. The new unit will focus on place value and continue to develop a deep understanding of numbers to 120. Yesterday the students developed the best strategies for estimating a bag of Popsicle sticks.
Ms Figdor had this to say about 2nd grade math: During second grade math we have been continuing to explore concepts in geometry. We learned about tessellation and created our own tesselating shapes by combining triangles, rectangles, and squares. In addition, the second graders have continued to develop their understanding of how to find the area of shapes. We have explored how multiplication can be used to find the area of rectangles. Students explored how identifying the dimension (rows and columns) of a rectangle can help them find the area of rectangular shapes. Then students learned how to use repeated addition, skip counting, or multiplication to find the area. Next week we will wrap up our unit on Geometry.
That is all for now. I hope yo have a great weekend.
Peace,
Tommy
