End of November

It is hard to believe that November is almost over. We have been working hard and just finished our Water Habitats unit in Science. In Math we have been looking at numbers. The students are so good at place value because we do this already with our morning calendar routine. They write the number in symbol form, standard, and expanded. We also look at how many days that we have been in school and that is our number of the day. They tell me what one more, one less, 10 more, and ten less is for that number. One student is doing this on the activboard and the rest are using their mini-white boards. We have started a new unit in Social Studies called People Make History. The students have also been busy writing stories. We read The Ugly Pumpkin and then wrote a new ending for the story by thinking of an adventure for the new squash. The students practiced sequencing in their writing by using transition words to write how to cook and turkey. Finally, after reading Turkey Trouble, they had the turkey write a speech why he should not be eaten and what he could disguise himself as so he would not be. It will be a short and busy 2 days before our Thanksgiving break on Wednesday.

Red Ribbon Week and Halloween

What a busy couple of weeks we have had. We dressed up on different days for Red Ribbon Week and ended with a school assembly, which our class sang a Character Counts song. Then, we had Halloween and Parent/Teacher conferences to finish the month of October. One activity that we did for Halloween is a pumpkin investigation. I had great help for this science and math activity from mothers in our classroom. You can view all of our photographs by checking our classroom website 2nd Grade Slueths.