More Red Clover Books

Firefly Second Grade has spent the week reading more Red Clover books.  This week we read A pig Parade,  Nabeel's New Pants, and Art & Max.  These were all funny stories with beautiful illustrations.  We talked about how author's tell their stories through illustrations.  Art & Max was a perfect book for this discussion.  Next week is the last week our team has the Red Clover books.  We will be reading the last few books and voting on our favorite.

In Reader's Workshop we talked about how readers choose books, reviewed choosing "Just Right Books", reviewed fiction and non-fiction text features, and practiced finding our special quiet place to read during Reader's Workshop.  We will begin reading groups next week.  We reviewed digraphs and blends and ways to make the /k/ sound in Fundations.  We also reviewed closed syllables and took our Unit 1 test.  Next week we will begin Unit 2 which will review bonus letters (ff, ll, ss), glued sounds and vowel teams.

We continued to explore growing patterns during math this week.  We created a growing chart showing "Nostrils".  Yes, that's right, nostrils!  We needed to create a pattern that grew by twos and the class voted on drawing nostrils and counting them since every nose has two of them!  We used this to complete a hundreds grid counting by twos and discovered a variety of patterns that existed on our hundreds charts.  We spent the past two days sorting objects and creating Venn Diagrams showing different ways to sort various objects.

Wednesday was our last day for Imagination Playground.  This was a wonderful experience and gave everyone opportunities to practice some of the social skills and group work skills we have been learning about in the classroom.  Everyone who shared this week did a terrific job of talking about how they have used these skills in their lives.

 

This Wednesday will be Fire Prevention Day and on Friday we will be spending our morning a Shelburne Farms doing team building activities.  We will be back at school in time for recess/lunch.

In my last post I forgot to thank all the parents who helped make Salsa last Friday, so a big thank you to all of you for providing such a fun experience for our class!