What an incredible class we have! Even with a crazy week with me being out so much students were engaged in their learning and showed great Rumney CARES to Sarah and Mrs. Joslyn who held down the fort.
Students looked closely at the writing process and finished the steps in order to publish their next small moment story (personal narrative). On Friday our 6th grade buddies typed our stories.
These are our steps:
1) Planning
2)Writing/Drafting
3) Peer Review
4) Editing
5) Publishing
We practiced a few comprehension strategies with our Scholastic News, "Veteran Mom", as well as with our Read Aloud, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm by Betty MacDonald. This week we practiced: Ask Questions, Check for Understanding, and Infer (think about what you know; fill in; connect).
We did one last experiment seeing what happens to solid butter when heat is added. We also had a fun 4 Winds lesson with Honi and Abby about leaves. If you can help with our next 4 Winds lesson in December please let either Honi or me know! Here are a few pictures from this science adventure!
Second grade mathematicians continue gaining accuracy and/or fluency with their subtraction facts from the N+10 and N+9 families. They use number ladders, fact wheels, fact family triangle cards, and cuisenaire rods to build up their fact knowledge banks.They learned a few strategies for adding a string of addends (i.e. 7 + 9 + 5 + 11 = ___) and explaining their thinking verbally as well as on paper. They continue to work on place value, writing numbers in expanded form, and writing numbers in words. First grade mathematicians continued their work with the number line and worked in stations to practice addition facts, number writing, and combinations of 10.
There is one more week to submit a Scholastic book order. There is a link to our ordering webpage on the right-hand sidebar of this blog! If you want any books as gifts for the holiday please be sure to make an order online or send in a check with your order form by this upcoming Thursday! One last highlight is how much fun Sra. Donovan has made learning body parts in Spanish. On Friday they even made this amazing live diagram!
Have a fantastic weekend!
Dates to Remember
Thursday Nov. 19 -- Scholastic Book Orders Due!
Thursday Nov. 19 -- All School Meeting 2:30-3:15
Wed-Fri Nov. 25 - 27 -- Thanksgiving Break (no school)
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