It is officially Fall and we are ready to fall into some outstanding learning opportunities!
We started our Animal Reports this week and we will be working on them for the entire month. This is a very important project because it connects to a lot of second grade standards, across content areas, in Writing, Reading, Social Studies, and Science. Later in the month when we complete unit 2 of our Language Arts units, we will be taking part in Science lessons having to do with bats and pumpkins. I am looking forward to this! In Math, we are finishing unit 2 this week. As a reminder, unit 2 was all about moving students through counting and grouping discrete objects by place value, to measuring length with trains of Unifix cubes, to measuring using the number line and open number line concepts, and beginning to add double-digit numbers on these number lines. Jack and the Beanstalk, with a few twists and turns, served as a springboard for this mathematical journey. We will be moving on to unit 3 on Monday! This unit will focus on strategies for multi-digit addition and subtraction within the range of 0 to 100. The first module emphasizes the number line model and encourages students to develop the strategy of using "skip-jumps" based on multiples of 5 and 10. The second module continue to use the number line as a computational tool through which students add and subtract two-digit numbers. The third module focuses on addition and subtraction, but uses the base ten structure (collecting ones and tens). Finally, the fourth module requires students to determine the frequency with which various colored objects appear in a bag and to graph the data. We have already hit the ground running with unit 2 in ELA, which is all about Animal Discoveries, we are currently on week 2 and will be starting week 3 on Monday! Each part of the daily lessons have focus on building background, oral vocabulary, word work, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. Other extensions of these activities may include reader's theater, reading digitally, and research and inquiry (which is what we are focusing on with our Animal Reports). In writing, there is an emphasis in narrative, informative, and opinion text. In grammar, we may emphasize nouns, commas in a series, singular and plural nouns, capital letters, abbreviations, and apostrophes. The big idea is how animals play a part in the world around us. We will be working on unit 2 for the majority of October. Check back at the beginning of November for a new update! <3 Mrs. Patel
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