Firefly Second Grade has had a great start to the new year! We started a unit about r-controlled vowels in Fundations and have been talking about Authors' Craft during literacy. We have been discussing what illustrators and authors do to make their books unique and interesting. This week we discussed books by Barbara Cooney and read a book about the process professional illustrators use to create the pictures in books.
We made patchwork mini-quilts during math and explored line and rotational symmetry through these. We will use these quilts to explore area next week. During Number Corner we have begun exploring different strategies to add two and three digit numbers and continue to work toward mastery of our addition and subtraction facts.
We also enjoyed a lesson two CVU students came to our classroom to teach this week. They read us a story and gave us time to do some coloring sheets about the story.
Next week will be busy one. On Tuesday, a visiting artist from the Flynn Center will be spending time with us to explore shapes through dance and movement. On Wednesday, we look forward to our January Hands On Nature lesson. We also look forward to Tia's return from her sailing trip and will have an opportunity to learn more about her experience from Tia and her mother on Friday when they share about this wonderful journey they embarked upon over the last six months.
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