To practice standard form, expanded form, drawing in base ten blocks, and number words we had table group races with a three-digit number randomly called out. We had a lot of fun doing this!
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My cousin teaches 3rd grade in Phoenix, AZ, so we paired up our students to exchange valentines with them! Our class got theirs in the mail on Valentine's Day, and we were shocked to find that some of them have never seen snow before, and that they have outside hallways at their school because of the climate. As a class we had a great time passing out our valentines to each other! It's always fun to see the creative boxes the students bring to hold all of their goodies in. I have 22 of the best valentines I could ever ask for :)! Thanks for sharing your children with me this year! Today we celebrated the 100th day of school (WOW, I can't believe how fast this year is flying)! The kids participated in many different activities throughout the day that all had something to do with the number "100"... stacking 100 cups, building a structure with 100 Legos, making necklaces with 100 Fruit Loops, counting how many 100s it takes for them to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop etc. A big thank you again to everyone who donated supplies to make this day extremely successful :)! There was a lot of excitement today! Below is an individual picture of your child with our "100 Days Smarter" picture frame :) Pictures below were taken with the "Aging Booth" app... Too funny! All of 2R did wonderful working in a group of 3 or 4, showing teamwork, making comprises with each other, and creating beautiful bridges to get our gnomes from the gnome village, across the lake, and into gnome town to sell their veggies! No two bridges are alike, but they all meet the requirements! I am very proud of all of them. Parents, I told them that if they recreate a bridge at home to have you email me or Remind text a picture of it because I would love to see it! :) Walking around to other classrooms to see more 2nd grade bridges. :) This was way too cute to not share with all of you... I love these 7 and 8-year-old hopes and dreams!
We had A BLAST reading this book called, I Need My Monster. They had to predict the title of the story before reading based on only the front cover. Throughout the story they had to go back to their sheet and make predictions about every monster we met in the story. It was great to see their reactions every time I revealed a monster to them. Reading is so much fun! On Friday we did this egg activity to help the kids understand diversity and the segregation in our history. I showed them the brown egg and the white egg. We talked about the similarities (they are both eggs, they both can roll, they are both an oval shape, etc.) and differences between the two. The only big difference being color. Then I cracked the two eggs, and we talked about how the yolk was the same on the inside. We had a wonderful discussion about how the eggs are like people. Dr. King knew that everybody was really alike and the only thing that was different was the color of our skin, so that’s why he thought that things were unfair. Even though we may look different, we are all on the same on the inside... we are all people!
We are SUPER excited to start building our bridges to help our gnome people get from the gnome village, across the lake, into gnome town, so they can sell their veggies. We looked at some pictures of lots of different bridges around the world. While they all looked different in structure, we noticed lots of similarities. They all needed to have a way to get up the bridge and down the bridge, they had guardrails, a flat surface, support beams, and they all were high up in the air. We spent time this past week planning what supplies we are going to need for our bridges and what it will look like. The challenge will be to have the bridge support the weight of at least 4 crayons and all of our paper gnomes. On Friday we get to view all of the 2nd graders' bridges :)! Stay tuned to see our fabulous finished products! We enjoyed some desk writing while we played musical spelling on Friday. We practiced writing a certain word as many times as we could before the music turned off. We also spell words like a volcano, a basketball player, a cheerleader, etc... Ask your child about it! :) We have been practicing how to incorporate much more detail into our writing. We learned about a "snowman 1" (no detail), a "snowman 2" (a little bit of detail), a "snowman 3" (plenty of details) sentence, and a "snowman 4" (LOTS of details) sentence. As I read the sentences to the students, they drew only what they heard. We all agreed that the snowman 4 drawing was a much more interesting, colorful, creative snowman, and that is due to the awesome amount of detail that writer gave us. Everyone got to create their own snowman 4. They include a lot of detail in their snowmen, and then they wrote about it. They even challenged themselves to write snowman 5, 6, and 7 sentences! We all agreed that the more detail, the better! Wonderful job, everyone! Below, students are using lots of different craft materials to create their "snowman 4". They loved it! Just like snowflakes... no two snowmen were alike. I loved seeing their creativity come through with this project :). See the finished snowmen products below, however, we are still working on completing the detail sentences! |
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