Dear Parents,
It was great to get back to be with my class. They did a great job while I was gone ( due to the passing of my mother) and worked hard with Mrs. Stevens who is a veteran, second grade teacher from Coyote Ridge. They were in excellent hands! In math this week we focused on place value. We represented numbers with sheets, strips, and singles with pictures, then showed what would happen if we added or subtracted 10 or 100. Then we tried it doing the change mentally. Hey caught on quickly! We also found missing numbers on a number line. They were well prepared to do this. Last they had to place numbers on an open number line. We would find a mid-point between two numbers and then place the numbers in order from least to greatest where they should be on the open number line. An open number line has only a beginning number and an ending number. The children placed numbers between them.
In writing we finished our papers explaining why a certain holiday is our favorite one. These are on display in the hallway if you come to our holiday party next week. We then started our unit on writing messages and letters. This class loves to write to people they love! They will deliver their messages and letters once they are in final copy form.
In reading we learned all about nonfiction features and read Wilma Rudolph. We searched for these features in that story as well as many other nonfiction books. On Friday we read a story about Gingerbread houses and took a comprehension check.
In science we have been learning all about natural bodies of water. We learned the names of several fresh and salt water sources and played a SWAT game to practice knowing the visual representations of these water sources. We looked at examples of fresh and salt water, drew, described and compared them. We listened to some brainpop Jr. information and on Friday we did a lalk read, talk write activity.
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