We've had another busy and fun-filled week. It started off with a fantastic Halloween party. Thanks to Michelle Alberghini and Laura Lafaille for organizing this for us! We also got to celebrate El Día de los Muertos with Sra. Donovan!
We read a couple more amazing small moment stories, Brave Irene by William Steig and Thundercake by Patricia Polacco. We noticed how adding many details and juicy words helps elaborate small moments in time. These details help us make a movie in our brains about what is happening in the story. Many students finishing writing, editing, and conferencing their first small moment stories. They are ready to be typed for publication!
We also did some fun rhyming together to get ready to make puppets to go along with the song "A-Hunting We Will Go." We brainstormed many animal rhymes and each child chose what rhyme they want to use for their puppets. We made sketches of our ideas and wrote out our song verses. We'll use these as we begin making our puppets next Monday (we're having our puppet workshops during our normal Art time).
We were also excited to begin our science unit on sound. We kicked off our unit by watching this video of a bee pollinating a poppy flower. We made our initial observations, drew diagrams of what we saw and noticed, and wrote our ideas about what the sound was and what we noticed about it, and what might be causing the sound.
This week in second grade math our amazing mathematicians worked independently or in small groups while I was doing in-class assessments with kids one-on-one or in small groups. Students worked on their "1,000 books" -- writing all the numbers to 1,000 (or at least up to 500 so far). They also practiced skip counting forwards by 10s and backwards by 100s within 1,000. We continue to work on number line strategies and think about numbers in terms of place value, quantity, and length. On Friday we had math game stations: trash can place value, compare place value (3 digit or 4 digit numbers), math man place value, and fruit splat addition (you choose the level!).
Fox Kits Corner
Here's what's important to us this week:
- Erin and Franki lost teeth this week!
- We LOVED our jobs.
- We got to upgrade Flo Yo yesterday (Thursday).
- We had fun writing our small moment stories. We were vigorously writing!
- We had buddies today (on Friday). It was fun and hard doing the hidden pictures and working together. Some of us finished one picture and went to another one.
- We got to sketch what our puppets will look like! We will do animal puppets in art to go with rhymes we made up for the song "A-Hunting We Will Go."
- In Guidance we talked about Kelso's Choices and BIG and small problems.
- We had a school garden snack today. It was butternut squash. We all had different opinions about if we liked it.
- We liked doing Fox Kits Corner.
- We loved the activities in music: fast and slow land, arioso land, string singing, and singing "There Was an Old Lady All Skin and Bones.
- We loved this week. This week will not be like any other week!
Dates to Remember
Monday November 7 - Puppet Show for No Strings Marionette Residency 9:30-10:10
Wednesday November 9 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (After School)
Thursday November 10 - 4 Winds 1:30-2:40
Friday November 11 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (No School for Kids)
Wed-Fri Nov. 23-25 - Thanksgiving Break - No School
Thursday December 1 - Puppet Show (near the end of the day, time not yet decided)
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