April 27 - May 1

Only 14 more days until we are second graders! That is a short amount of time, but we have plenty of learning left. We are working hard up until the last day of school. Check out what we've been up to this week...

Reading

We continue our work in our Nonfiction Reading to Become Experts with...

• sharing key ideas with others
• finding and recording key ideas and key details
• compare and contrast the same topic in different nonfiction texts

Question: What were two nonfiction texts that you looked for similarities and differences in your reading club?

Writing

Our writing unit of Studying the Craft of a Nonfiction Mentor Author fits in perfectly with our current writing unit! This week we...

• chose a topic and created questions to guide our research 
• researched our topic and questions
• made our plan for our nonfiction books
• began the opening page to our nonfiction book
• made table of content page to our nonfiction book

Question: What two databases have you been using to research your nonfiction topic?

Math

Geometry has been a lot of fun this week! We are continuing to learn how to...

• divide shapes into equal parts
• partitioning circles and rectangles into halves and fourths
• recognize which shapes are cut into quarters or halves

Question: Do you want 1 half or 1 fourth of a pizza?

Question:  How many quarters make up one half?

Science

Observing organisms has been a lot of fun and hard work! This week we...

• observed pill bugs
• observed millipedes
• observed what's happening in the terrariums
• discussed the plant life cycle

Questions: What is one similarity and one difference between pill bugs and millipedes? 

Upcoming Dates
5/4 - Mrs. Nagy Out

5/8 - Field Trip to the Botanical Garden

5/14 - JA in a Day

5/15 - Edible Botany

5/20 - Flip Day

5/21 - Last Day of School (1/2 Day)