I hope that you had a fun and restful week. On Monday I got to run in the Boston Marathon. I worked really hard to prepare for the race, and I was very proud to finish. After that I spent the rest of vacation relaxing and spending some extra time playing with my daughters.
Before vacation we were busy in Second Grade. The students finished their poetry notebooks and have started to putting them together. The last two poems we learned were template poems and shape poems. It's amazing to see how creative the kids can be! This coming week we will begin our last Writing Unit which is on Informational Writing. This writing unit includes library research. Your child will have the opportunity to come up with their own "I Wonder" questions that they would like to research in order to learn more about a country from which their ancestors have come from. We will need some parent volunteers to help with the research, so look for a note coming home this week about that.
In Social Studies we finished up our study of Africa by writing poems about African animals. We then traveled to the coldest continent on Earth, Antarctica! The kids enjoyed learning about Antarctica and the fact that the only people who go there are scientists and that nobody actually lives in Antarctica. Next the children will be writing some interesting facts they learned about Antarctica, as well as learning about the loveable... penguins!
In math, we are working on Unit 8 which focuses on Geometry. In the first few lessons, the children have described the attributes of 2-dimensional shapes and have identified shapes that have certain attributes while playing the game Shape Capture. The kids also had a lot of fun using straws and pipe cleaners to build various polygons. This coming week we will continue by looking at 3-dimensional shapes and sorting them according to their attributes.
Thank you for sending in some wonderful games for your child to share during our "Game Day!" The kids had a great time that day learning new games and interacting with one another. I heard some great conversations as kids taught one another how to play a game, negotiated how they were going to decide which friends to play with, and encouraged one another. Here a few photos I captured that day...
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