Week 23

Dear Parents,

        This week in math we moved to solving three digit addition and subtraction problems. We are understanding why we trade because of all the hands on activities we’ve been doing with place value blocks. I can write my own word problems to represent a number sentence.

         In reading we listened to a story about kindness. We made a kindness pledge. We are looking for acts of kindness to add hearts to our second grade Kindness Tree. We read a story about Helen Keller. We learned to synthesize the important ideas to get the main idea of the story. We all agreed that Helen Keller was an amazing person! Her message is that we all have great potential. Believe in yourself, never give up and you can achieve your dreams. In social studies we continued learning our map skills and learned about what it means when the groundhog does not see his shadow! We are looking forward to an early Spring! We had a fun Groundhog Day snack with a small chocolate donut with a Teddy Graham peaking out of the hole in the middle.

         In language we learned about primary and secondary resources. We researched Helen Keller using several books and websites to learn more about her. We are learning how to take the important information, organize it into a report which follows the person’s timeline, create interesting sentences, and add transition words. We are writing a group report about this famous person. Next, we will be writing reports individually or with a partner.

         In science we are continuing to learn about objects in the sky. We are learning that the sun and moon appear to change in the sky and the reason behind those changes. We are talking, reading and writing about all we have learned. We loved playing draw me to learn our vocabulary!

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