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Reader’s Workshop
What
a fantastic week in Workshop! Students continued to look at Cynthia Rylant’s
book, “The Whales” and Faith McNulty’s book, “How the Whales Walked” and
compared Rylant’s book to McNulty’s piece on the topic of thinking that whales
do and think. Students noticed
that Rylant’s words were more poetic, while McNulty’s were more factual. Our readers also thought of many
creative names for the new genre of “On-the-Fence” books. Some of the most creative were:
fictnon, nonfict and a little bit fiction and a little bit nonfiction. We voted and decided that informational
fiction would be the best name for this new genre of books. Students then searched through our
classroom library to find informational fiction books for our new book tub.
Writer’s Workshop
In computers this week students got a chance to
visit the Cornell Ornithology web page to take a closer look at their
birds. They watched videos and
heard the sound of their bird call.
Our
writers began researching their birds to learn about the physical description,
habitat and nesting of the birds. Thank you for sending in such great
information from home! The enthusiasm that overcomes the room during Writer’s
Workshop is evident at how much our kids love to write!
Math Workshop
Our
students were shocked to find out how parentheses are used in math earlier this
week! They learned that
mathematicians should do the math work inside the parentheses first. We took our Unit 10 math assessment mid week. Next, we took the data that we
collected from our March weather calendars in science and created a bar graph. We looked at the bar graph to write
three true fact about our weather bar graph. Our week ended with some fun math explorations and iPod
Touch apps!
Word Study/Writing Skills
This week the kids took their handwriting assessment. It will be
very interesting to compare their handwriting on the same assessment from the
beginning of the year until this point in the year. To end our "Switch
Days" we played a fun reading comprehension game on the Smartboard called,
"Kooky Carnival".
Science
We talked
about clouds this week and what kind of rain they could bring. Cumulus
clouds we’re the favorite type of cloud, these clouds bring no rain, just clear
skies and puffy white clouds. The scientists of 2nd grade
showed they learned so much from their Air and Weather Unit; the results on
their science tests were spectacular! Sadly, our science units have come
to an end, however, taking nature walks, exploring lakes or rivers, and doing
various experiments will encourage the love of science within your child.
Social Studies
Students
shared their homework about local businesses in White Lake and decided if they
provided a good or service to our community. Partners then selected one business in White Lake to create
a business guide. Students needed
to write about their local business and talk about what goods or services their
business provided to their community.
They also illustrated a picture of their business. Please look for your child’s business
guide page to be displayed in the hallway in the near future. This was our final week switching with
other second grade classes. Next
week students will be continuing social studies with their homeroom teacher.
Important News/ Reminders
The students
had a wonderful time learning about birds during our “in school” field trip on
Thursday! They got to hold and
examine all types of bird artifacts including: wings, feet, eggs and nests! Students learned how birds fly and why you aren’t able to
hear an owl in flight. They also
got to visit seven different bird stations and practice “hands on” how
different birds catch their prey and eat their food according to their special
beaks and talons. This was a
perfect opportunity for our ornithologists to accumulate knowledge about birds
for their research.
· Friday, April 20th: Bingo Night
· Friday - April 27th: Dublin’s
Talent Show
· Friday, May 11th: Mom’s and Muffins at 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
in the cafeteria
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