Week of March 19-23

Hello families!

We have had a busy week in room 105!
This week in reading workshop we read the book The Perfect Pet by Margie Palatini. This book is a persuasive piece in which a little girl tries several approaches to convince her parents to let her have a pet.
The students discussed how she kept trying different strategies and was persistent in her efforts. At the end she solves her own problem by finding a pet bug!

We also read a chapter book called Where are you going, Baby Lincoln? This book is a short chapter book in which the main character sets off on a "necessary journey." We will use the book to discuss differing points of view in the story. We also learned two new character traits: judgmental and optimistic. Students wrote about the author's message. It is okay to have a different opinion but remember to respect that others may think differently than you think.

This week we reviewed contractions and practiced taking letters out to make contractions. We will work on syllables and double consonant patterns next week! We played a word game called My Pile/Your Pile to practice reading high frequency words quickly.

We are continuing our opinion writing unit. We worked this week to add evidence from the book to our letters and include the page numbers. We are making longer letters into booklets and creating a poster to share with the other second grade classes next week to wrap up this unit of writing!

In math we have begun unit 7. The family letter was sent home. We will continue to work on adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers. We practiced today adding without regrouping. We will also work on measurement, making a line plot and graphing information. The unit 6 math test was sent home on Thursday.

In social studies we worked on producers and consumers and created a flow chart for the process of making milk into ice cream. Next week we will work on learning about opportunity cost!

We are headed toward spring break which begins next week. There will be no school from March 30 - April 9.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Scheck