Thank you all for meeting with me over the past few days to discuss the progress your child has made this term. It's always great to have this time to share work and classroom observations with parents. As always, thank you for all you do at home to support your child's learning!
Here is a look at what we have been up to over the past two weeks in room 7...
On our "trip" around the world, we visited one of my favorite destinations- Australia! There are many interesting things to learn and see on this continent. We looked at the continent in general, including its location, landscapes, climate, and people. The children also created their own colorful boomerangs, as well as beautiful scrapbook pages including an acrostic poem about Australia.
After all the days off for snow and professional days, we finally got back to some regular reading groups this past week. It was great to get back into our routines and enjoy some good books together. I continue to be impressed with how many minutes of reading the students are doing at home for our Star Reader program!!
Math this week looked at collecting data (Arm Spans and How Far We Can Jump) and representing that data on a line plot. We also used the data to answer various questions, and explored more with Shape Attributes, Graphs, and Measurement. We are getting really good at making estimates about length and measuring accurately using both centimeters and inches.
The children are doing great with the poetry unit. They have already written a cinquain poem, a few couplet poems, as well as 2 form poems ("I Like" and "I Meant To"). They are doing rough drafts and final copies of each to be included in their Poetry Notebooks that will come home at the end of the unit.
We have been spending extra time at school practicing for the upcoming second grade musical, Artists Around The World. Please note the date of the performance for parents, as it has changed since I originally communicated to you about it in February. The new dates are below:
Wednesday, April 4th- School Performance
Friday, April 6th- Parent Performance at 1:45
One last reminder- there will be a half day this coming Friday, March 30th for the Easter Holiday.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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