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Weekly News
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We started our animals unit in Choice Time! First the students had a chance to create upcycled decorations for the classroom. Then this past week they did centers for life cycles, animal riddles, different types of teeth, and animal tangrams. If you’d like to volunteer to help with choice time, please sign up here.
In Literacy, first graders learned about the silent w in wr- words, practiced spelling 2-syllable words, and continued working on suffixes and fluency. We are wrapping up Unit 5 this week and moving on to Unit 6! In Unit 6, we’ll learn more silent letters, parts of speech, hone our skills with tricky spellings, and continue building our fluency and reading comprehension. In Knowledge, we continued our unit on Geology, learning more about volcanoes and minerals. After this short unit, we’ll be doing some persuasive writing practice.
Second grade literacy spent the early part of the week reviewing “to be” verbs, plural versus singular spelling of nouns, titles(Miss, Mr., Mrs., and Ms., and punctuation and capitalization in grammar. We then introduced the ‘al’ spelling of the /aw/ sound, for example: salt, hallway, and walrus. We wrapped up the week by finishing the Skills Unit 4 with an assessment on the skills taught during Unit 4wsq. Next week we will dive into Skills Unit 5. Buckle up!
In math, first graders finished Topic A! We did a quick lesson on telling time to the half hour (though we got more practice during learning groups) and we spent some time making and breaking groups of 10 to make 2-digit numbers. Next week we will start Topic B which will continue honing our understanding of place value (18 < 81, 2 tens = 20 ones).
Second grade math class worked through Topic C by learning how to partition circles and rectangles into equal parts and labeling them halves, thirds, and fourths. While these shapes can be divided into equal shapes and parts, we also learned that equal parts of identical shapes can be different shapes. Towards the end of the week we began learning about time. Currently we are learning about A.M and P.M and reading analog clock times on the hour and half past each hour. Telling time on analog clocks are fun activities to practice at home with your student.
…Critter Corner… Shadow and Mr Fuzzy Cheeks are doing great and excited about spring! They are in need of a little TLC so if any of our parents are interested in helping out, they could use some extra bedding and/or food and hay if anyone is interested in donating to the class pets. Thank you!