![]() Thank you for your suggestions on scaffolding it inspired this new format. Hopefully, you found the new form of the class assignments chart this week useful. We are writing in response to our reading learning to respond to comprehension questions with deep thinking, details from the text, and complete sentences. WRITING: We are finishing our narratives. We also continue to explore area models connecting repeated addition to an introduction to multiplication. Understanding equality of divisions and value of the size of a part (1/4 is smaller than 1/3 even though the whole number 4 is bigger than a 3) are challenging concepts and will continue to be built upon in coming years. MATH: Fraction comparisons and connections to 'the whole' - whether in fraction strips, money, food, even paper folding - was our concluding math theme this week. This week we will delve into biomimicry and start exploring the consistent designs found in nature. We have explored mimicry in plants and animals for safety and reproduction purposes. With all of our focus on the natural world right now, I hope your students are sharing their new awareness with you about the natural 'magic' happening right now in our own backyards! We have been looking at the specifics of plants: pollination and purpose of flowers (we dissected a peony blossom to find the reproductive parts), how seeds travel, and purpose of plant structures. Lenox for encouraging the time for study and observation of this important day and to all the other classes for their informative and creative contributions. Your students were impressive in their original 'Memorial Day Haikus/Meditation Flags' presentation to the school they were professional in their public speaking and respect for the event. We observed Memorial Day on Friday with a beautiful ceremony outside with presentations from each class. (They also created really beautiful 'bird-themed' thank you cards for our visitors!) I hope your student has shared their new knowledge of John James Audubon and his contribution as an early American naturalist explorer. They brought bird 'parts' for the students to explore within the theme of Form with Function. Gary is a professional bird carving artist and brought some blanks of his ornaments students expressed their creative sides with original bird ornaments of their own. Otter Creek Audubon Society respresentatives, Kathy and Gary Starr, came for a morning visit in the tent. We had some special events this week at which your children shone! Whatever it may be, it is a joy to have so much interest, curiosity, and positive participation from the students just days away from the end of the year! Or it could be the interest in the content (nature's design and animal/plant adaptations fractions). We will continue this focusing on intangible gift giving this week.Īs you can imagine with our beautiful weather and anticipation of summer, the kids are in high energy mode and yet, most continue to demonstrate an active engagement in class activities with focused work and class participation.very impressive! This seems especially true in our How We Express Ourselves study and in math we are able to now work together in small groups which may be contributing to the continued excitment for learning. Students are nominating others (anonymously) for a 'gift' they saw or 'were given' and we are posting little gift icons outside our door to show all the giving we are doing. ![]() In 2nd grade, we are working on gift giving.the intangible kind: how giving and getting gifts of time, kind words, support, throughful & helpful actions, and empathy make us feel. This week we will be finishing with biomimicry and reflecting on our unit. After learning about the value and function of pollination, we dissected a variety of flowers and discovered the unique ways each flower encourages a polinator visit and found the unique shapes of each flower's pistil and stamen. IB UNIT: HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES: This week our focus was on the form and function of plants: what plant parts do, how plants survive and reproduce. GUIDED READING: Groups are still going strong, imbedding strategies and techniques for decoding, fluency, and comprehension hopefully your student can engage with these strategies during their independent reading time for continued personal growth. We will use this prose for our final tech. Some are continuing to work on finishing their narratives, some are working on plant and animal haikus, and a few have started their personal similie prose. Your student should have brought that home Friday. WORD WORK: We have finished our syllables and word parts and taken a final quiz. An important introduction this week has been in how to make change to $1.00 we are using coins to count forward and number lines to help. It has been fun and the kids ask for more. MATH: we are finishing the year with money and buying from the Toy Store.
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