Happy September already! We had a short but full week and it looks like another short week will be in order next week as well. I have had to alter the calendar a bit under our class documents to make up for our lost day next week=) We will have to skip Monday after school activities and also move library day to FRIDAY. That means that we will start the week with PE swimming oh boy! Please send some sort of small bag with your child, it makes it easier for them to transport clothes with lunches and water bottles.
This week we start our Home Learning, so you will now be able to access this document on the Home Learning Tab. This will be open until our next Home Learning menu which will start the first week of October. Please remember your child only needs to do a few tasks as they choose in addition to always reading 20 minutes every night. We will take time on Fridays to review any work sent in via folders, email or even Seesaw. Feel free to email with any clarifying questions.
Here's what was going on last week in 2CP:
Math:
We continued with our place value unit and talked about how digits can change their place and it changes the value of the number making it greater or smaller. Students created different numbers by organizing digits in certain ways. We worked on building and drawing numbers with Place Value blocks and how to model a number in different ways with different blocks. We also started to practice our fact fluency using the application Hooda math. Students are still a bit weak with counting up and down by 5s and 10s at different points: 180, 210, 60. This would make a good car ride game.
ELA:
In writing we continue to look to the masters for ideas and inspiration to help add more details in our stories. The kinds of detail we have focused on to start our stories and be woven within them are: dialogue, actions and setting where they use their senses. Stretching one idea across pages and helping the reader picture how they felt were other areas of focus. In reading we have been working on changing our voice to match the story and reading more smoothly. This week we added in pausing to make sure we were actually thinking and not just reading. So we put sticky notes on our books on different pages to remind ourselves to often: pause, think and retell what we have read. You can do this with them at home as well to check in on understanding.
Social Studies:
Last week on the island and our island rescue. Students made maps of their island with landforms, a map key and a compass. They reflected on what they learned about communities on their island, what went well and what was hard. By the end of the island time they have built shelters, created jobs for each person, set up food markets and used wood chips as currency. They said they did not need a leader and were just starting to see the importance and need of rules. They will now choose 1 of the 3: urban, suburban or rural communities and will create their own community in the coming weeks.
Other:
We started our first of many Wondering Wednesdays. I firmly believe in carving out time for authentic inquiry and allowing students to pursue their own interests. We discussed all the many ways people can answer questions besides simply typing the question into Google. The students had some questions from their wondering journals and our wonder wall. They broke into groups to help one another answer their questions about Singapore, Greenland, Queen ants, Chinese calendar, and snake venom. We used National Geographic and online encyclopedia, books from the library and next week we will ask the experts. I told them you were also experts and that we also make observations to answer our wonderings. We will use the website below as well on Wednesdays. It has a new wondering everyday kids get to learn about.
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