Happy Veterans Day! Happy Three Day Weekend! And shamelessly, happy anniversary to me and Coach Cook!
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| Last weekend I volunteered at a festival and got to meet Baby Wilbur! |
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| We brainstormed nouns and verbs that described Veterans |
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| Writing thoughtful, kind, thankful letters to our veterans. |
Here is a look at our upcoming week:
Language arts: Next week in ELA we will start memorizing a new poem! The Night Before Christmas BY Clement C. Moore! This poem is broken into 4 stanzas that we will learn each week! Students will choose one stanza to memorize and will recite it the week of December 14. We will continue working on writing interesting sentences in grammar. We will focus on using all the parts of speech we have learned. Students will be assess on their understanding of subject nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs on Friday. We will also continue practicing narration and dictation using one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE stories, The Mouse and the Motorcycle! In literature we will be reading chapters 5-7 in The Boxcar Children! Students are loving the adventure that Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are on! Next week we will find out what strange noise coming from the woods was!
Math: In math next week students will be finishing up our unit on weight and move into a new and exciting unit on multiplication! We will introduce multiplication and repeated addition, and look for arrays everywhere in our everyday lives.
Science: Next week our second graders will become entomologists as we start a new unit on INSECTS! We will learn what make an insect an insect through understanding the parts of their body like head, thorax, and abdomen. We will also study their life cycle. Does is go through incomplete or complete metamorphosis? Finally, our entomologists will design their very own insect!
History: We will continue our journey through ancient
Math: In math next week we
will finish up our unit on weight and move into a new exciting unit on
multiplication!
