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Literacy

Treasures: 

This week, the children worked with the short /u/ sound. They read stories about music and instruments. The children worked on their retelling and visualizing skills. We discussed how when you visualize you make a movie in your mind. On Thursday, to practice their retelling skills the children wrote their own retelling of, The Snowy Day. After listening to the book, they retold the story in their own words. I hope you enjoy reading your child’s retelling of, The Snowy Day. All the children did a wonderful job! 

Grammar Packets:

The children worked with proper nouns this week. They learned that a noun that names a special person or place is called a proper noun. A proper noun begins with a capital letter. 

Writing:

This week, we started our letter writing unit. The children learned the five parts of a friendly letter: heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature. They learned a song to help them remember the parts, ask your child to sing you the song (it’s to the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes). As we read the story, Dear Mr. Blueberry, the children worked together to identify the different parts of a friendly letter. On Thursday, we wrote a friendly letter to Audrey Penn, author of The Kissing Hand. The children came up with lots of great ideas to include in the letter. Next week, each child will write their own friendly letter to author Mo Willems, who we have been studying in LMC. The children will mail their letters at the end of the week. 

Snow Globes:

On Friday, the children listened to the book, The Snow Globe Family by Jane O’Connor. After, they wrote their own story about what they would do if they lived in a snow globe. The children wrote some very creative stories about life in a snow globe. They also created their own snow globe to attach their writing to. Our room now sparkles with beautiful snow globes hanging from the ceiling. 

Math 

In Math, the children finished up Unit 3. On Monday, they worked with dominos. They began by placing the dominos in order according to their dot pattern. Then the children sorted the dominos by even and odd numbers. After they found the total of different dominos using the parts and total diagram. The children played Domino Top-It to practice their addition skills. 

On Tuesday, the children enjoyed using Mimio Vote to review all of the concepts they learned in Unit 3. Our room once again turned into the set of a game show as each child answered questions using their very own clicker. I am proud of how well the children did on the test on Wednesday. On Thursday we began Unit 4. This unit will focus on measurement. The children worked with measuring temperature using a thermometer. 

Social Studies

This week, we concluded our Thanksgiving unit. The children wrote about how they celebrated Thanksgiving with their family. Then we completed a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting our Thanksgiving to the very first Thanksgiving. 

Warm Fuzzy Celebration
On Friday, the children were very excited to celebrate filling the warm fuzzy jar. They were proud of how they had worked together as a team and showed good citizenship. The children brought in their favorite stuffed animal to spend the day learning right along side of them! Enjoy the cute photos below!

Second Grade Landmark Presentations

On Friday afternoon, the children enjoyed visiting Mrs. Porte’s 2nd grade class. The 2nd graders presented their Landmark projects to our class. The children loved moving around and viewing all of the interesting projects and asking the second graders questions. Thank you Mrs. Porte’s class, we had a great time!  

Mr. Robinson’s Visit

On Friday, Mr. Robinson visited our classroom to tell us all about his trip to China. The children listened while Mr. Robinson talked about the different schools and places he visited. They were eager to ask him lots of questions about the plane ride, the food he ate, and what school is like in China. The children were surprised to hear that most children sleep at school during the week and only go home to their families on the weekend. They also were surprised by some of the foods that Mr. Robinson tried on his trip. The children had a great time! Thank you Mr. Robinson! 

Happy Birthday

We celebrated two birthdays this week. On Thursday, we celebrated Christopher’s birthday and on Friday we celebrated Ayva’s birthday. Happy Birthday to Christopher and Ayva!

Reminder:

Scholastic book orders are due Monday by 4pm. I will be placing the order right after school. If you would like the books to be a surprise, please email me and I will arrange to get them to you secretly. Thank you for placing your orders online. You are helping us earn free books for our classroom!

I hope you have a wonderful rest of the weekend!