10/3/2022 0 Comments September ExcitementHello Families, Last week we had a wonderful trip to the Palace Theater. The second graders all did a fabulous job attending the show, and we found a lot of differences between the movie and the performance. Last week we also started our official reading and writing workshops. We will be learning about how we can make our reading "grow like beanstalks", and in writing we will be focusing on personal narratives to start the year. As a class, we have been working on our partner talk skills. There is a lot of partner work in our workshop times, so it is important that we learn how and keep practicing to work in partnerships. Our math has focused on mental math strategies with addition. This week we will move to mental math strategies with subtraction. The family letter from our math journals will come home at the beginning of each lesson to give some more insight into what we're practicing along with strategies to reinforce the skills at home. On Friday, we began our first science unit where we will explore the different properties of materials. Our first investigation involved creating a hat to protect ourselves from the sun on a desert island. It needed to have a stiff brim to keep the sun out of our faces, and we wanted it soft and absorbent enough on our skin to help soak up the sweat. The trick was we only had what washed up with our lunch box! The students had a lot of fun creating and building during this challenge. Just a reminder that there is no school this Friday 10/7 for a Teacher Workshop Day. There is also no school on Monday 10/10 for the holiday. I hope you all have a wonderful week!
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