Week 26 (March 2-6)

March 2 – 6 (Week 26)

Read Across America Week was a blast! Although we always set aside a chunk of our day to reading, the kids enjoyed the extra silly activities and dress ups that the second graders had planned.  We had Tacky Tuesday, bring your favorite book day for Wednesday, silly sock day for Thursday, and character day for Friday.

Decorating our silly socks!!!

Character day!!!

On Tuesday Mrs. Elliot’s mom, who is a former WE teacher, came to read to our second grade classes. She is such an animated reader and the kids enjoyed her so much.

Math

We are still working on mastering subtraction. The base 10 blocks are helping tremendously. The kids are finally able to visualize the blocks when subtracting on paper. I’m ecstatic that the connections are being made!

ELA

We’ve been engaging in lots of mentor reading and writing within our classroom. Each day a few kids will share out a piece of writing from their writer’s notebooks. This week we will continue to read from our writer’s notebook but I will also ask a few students to read aloud one of their favorite books to the class. I believe that this will help the kids see what is possible in their reading and writing, and also that there are so many different techniques for the two. By the way the kids absolutely love the books that I purchased for them at the book fair!

Social Studies

We finished presenting our Black History research projects this week. Again I cannot express how proud I am of the hard work and thought that the kids put into these booklets. They are amazing!! We’ve also started working on supply and demand as a class. We will continue to work on this the next two weeks.

I hope that you are all as proud of your child(ren) as I am!! They have grown so much over the past few months and are still growing physically, mentally, and emotionally!!