Firefly Second Grade spent the week solving and creating ant story problems. During the first part of the week we worked on problems that were already created for us. We talked about meaning of operations and how our knowledge of this helps us solve problems. We then used our math journals to show more than one way to solve each problem we were working on. During the last part of the week we created our own ant story problems. We will spend next week solving these problems in a variety of ways, sharing our thinking and talking about efficient strategies for problem solving.
We began our non-fiction unit in Writers Workshop by reviewing non-fiction text features and talking about what a "specialist" is. We will continue with this and begin creating our own specialist books next week. In Readers Workshop, we reviewed all the strategies we have been learning about that good readers do. We also added ideas for writing about the books we are reading in our journals. We finished up Fundations Unit 3 today with a unit test and will begin Unit 4 on Monday.
We are so excited to announce that The Flying Pig has generously given SCS two 45 minute presentations by Doreen Cronin, author of Click Clack Moo, Diary of a Spider, Duck for President, etc! Our team will be enjoying a visit from Doreen on Friday, October 28th.I have been so impressed with the homework that is coming in to school. Many students are handing their homework in early, doing extra work and we even had a few students choose to make a dance and create songs this week. It is fun for me to see what everyone will come up with each week.
Enjoy the long weekend!
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