Today was a much anticipated day in our classroom and across the school! We had such a great time out at the Color Run this morning! There was so much excited energy. Laughter filled the track as kids screamed and ran through clouds of color! Thank you for signing your kids up on MyBooster, thank you for all of the incredible donations to our school and thank you to all of the volunteers who helped make this special day possible for our kids. Wow!
Readers' Workshop
In Readers' Workshop we are digging deeper with story elements and character details. We have taken time to learn about story elements in books during Language Workshop the last two weeks and Readers' Workshop. Books we have used have included: Chrysanthemum, Wolf, Goldisocks and the Three Libearians, and Wemberly Worried. We have talked about finding the main characters. We have talked about learning to pick out the setting of a story (where it takes place). And then we talked about how you retell the big events of a story orally or written, making sure to include the problem and the resolution! Next we dug deeper with our character traits and looked specifically at the character Chrysanthemum, and how she changed over the course of the story, as many characters do!
Writers' Workshop & Phonics
We have spent this week digging deeper with our personal narratives. We have spent time looking at feeling words so that we can describe the feelings in our narratives of our characters. We have tried stretching beyond words like happy, sad and mad for words like: ecstatic, excited, miserable, frustrated, terrified, etc. Then in Word Work this week we overlapped and spent time with "Trouble Maker" words we looked for to fix up in our writing AND talked about when to use capital letters, and looked for and fixed those up in our writing too! So many great narratives have been written!
Math Workshop
This week in Math we took our Unit 1 Assessment. These came home with the Weckies on Thursday and are for you to keep home, to celebrate and to help your children practice and learn from. We launched Unit 2 with a review of dollar values and a new game called, "Money Exchange". Homelinks began coming home this week as well. I try not to send them home on Fridays and some days math will take us two days, so there might not always be a Homelink every day we do math!
Scenes from the Money Exchange game this week.
Social Studies
This week we took our Unit 1 Assessment together. The new social studies program has a lot of "meat" to the lessons. We felt as a grade level that doing the assessment together was a great way to review the concepts taught in the first unit. We learned all about how life has changed over time and ways that you can study how life has changed. One way we learned about was speaking to a primary source. Thus, this is where the Quest comes in with needing to interview an adult (the older the better) about their life in 2nd grade which we will compare next week to our lives in 2nd grade.
Important Upcoming Dates/Info:
October 17th - Social Studies Quest Interview DUE
October 20th - Dublin Spirit Wear Day
October 26th - Buster the Bus safety assembly
October 27th - Trunk or Treat @ Dublin 6-7:30pm
October 31st - 1/2 Day of School, Halloween Party 11-12noon (You must be signed up as a volunteer to attend)
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