We've been hard at work wrapping up our eighth week!
Second Grade has been hard at work with Summarizing, Main Idea, and Inference. We read some wonderful books on acceptance called Yoko and The Invisible Boy. We are learning to use the text to give us clues for not only envisioning what is happening, but to also help us figure out meanings of unknown words and inferential ideas. We completed Love That Dog in Third Grade -- a wonderful journey watching the character, Jack, unfold as a writer. We have been using annotations -- AKA margin notes -- to show our thinking, questions, and deepen our understanding of the author's purpose. Fourth Grade also finished Hate That Cat (which Third Grade is clamoring to read next),, and completed a thorough analysis from both the perspective of a reader and a writer.
In writing, we are building our drafts and learning about revision, specifically how revising takes work and the help of others. We will be forming writing groups soon, so we have "critique" sessions to help us build, refine, and clarify each story for publication.
Second graders used equations to represent addition and subtraction problems. The addition sentence had a missing number for example, 13-X=7 and X + 4 =9. We also read Game Time! Then added and subtracted to find a
Thanks to all for the opportunity to sit down and conference together. We enjoy spending time with you, too!!
Second Grade has been hard at work with Summarizing, Main Idea, and Inference. We read some wonderful books on acceptance called Yoko and The Invisible Boy. We are learning to use the text to give us clues for not only envisioning what is happening, but to also help us figure out meanings of unknown words and inferential ideas. We completed Love That Dog in Third Grade -- a wonderful journey watching the character, Jack, unfold as a writer. We have been using annotations -- AKA margin notes -- to show our thinking, questions, and deepen our understanding of the author's purpose. Fourth Grade also finished Hate That Cat (which Third Grade is clamoring to read next),, and completed a thorough analysis from both the perspective of a reader and a writer.
In writing, we are building our drafts and learning about revision, specifically how revising takes work and the help of others. We will be forming writing groups soon, so we have "critique" sessions to help us build, refine, and clarify each story for publication.
In math this week fourth grade worked on subtracting whole numbers and decimals. Tile Tabulations was an activity we played by making six digit numbers and finding the sum and differences.
Third graders found amounts of money by counting coins and bills. We read The Penny Book that was about subtracting and regrouping using pennies and dimes.
We also played a game called Mania Money and compared money amounts.
Second graders used equations to represent addition and subtraction problems. The addition sentence had a missing number for example, 13-X=7 and X + 4 =9. We also read Game Time! Then added and subtracted to find a
shin guards for the soccer players. We also played a game called The Ferris Wheel.
We've continued exploring physical properties of matter in science, both measurable and observable. Today's Classifying Matter stations proved to be exciting and challenging as we measured and observed texture, mass, relative density, magnetism, and states of matter.
In social studies, we completed our map study which resulted in some pretty fantastic work!
We introduced a new method to help us attentively listen and empathize. S.B.L.R. stands for Stop, Breathe, Listen, Respond. We find that sometimes in conversations we are so eager to respond and relate to the other person that we don't slow ourselves down and really HEAR them. We have practiced role playing and getting a chance to feel what the other person is feeling, then responding. We've noticed that we leave the conversation feeling heard and valued.
Thanks to all for the opportunity to sit down and conference together. We enjoy spending time with you, too!!
I really enjoyed making these maps in Social Studies! I liked this because I thought the clear overlays were awesome!
ReplyDeleteYep! I agree with Nora they were awesome ! It was the coolest map I have ever made!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Nora and Raquel the maps were really fun to make and turned out really awesome !
DeleteNoah really really enjoyed "Love that dog" it is his new favorite book , he said it is the saddest book he has read and he won't forget it in a hurry , Thank you Mrs. Forrest
ReplyDeleteThanks Lee! It is one of my favorites too! I love how the character Jack unfolds and reveals what he cares about through his poetry!
DeleteI really enjoyed "Love That Dog" to it was really deep!!!!
DeleteThat is such a coincidence I thought that the map we made was really cool as well.
ReplyDeleteThe maps we made in social studies was awesome!I loved the clear sheets!
ReplyDeleteI think that was smart to use the overlays on the map, I have an over- head projector and overlays at home and I never would of thought of using them like that!
ReplyDeleteI loved drawing with those markers that we used ! I loved it ! I would like to do something like this again soon!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI really love our Texas maps! Every time I open my Social Studies notebook and see it on the front I think, "Wow. I'm really proud of that! Wish we could do something like that again soon!"
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Zoe. Those markers were really cool. I had never seen those before.
Well, this response is turning into a book, so... yeah!
So glad you enjoyed making the maps, Eva! And you should feel proud--you guys did an awesome job! :)
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