Important dates: May 17 - In-school whale speaker - Whale Scouts May 19 - Talent show May 20 - Field trip - Whale Watching! May 24 - Poetry Celebration! - 9:25am May 30 - Memorial Day - No School Hi families, What a whale week! The week began with Jeff Hogan from Killer Whale Tales, a non-profit organization that studies whales and teaches about environmental advocacy to save whales. Students listened to whales calls from local Pugent Sound pods (J, K, L), and received whale trading cards! Jeff gave students an opportunity to collect 10 more! He sent home an environmental checklist. If the whole class completes it, each student gets 10 more cards! I have extra copies. The soft due date is May 27th. Let me know if you need another copy! Aquarium: Wednesday we went to the aquarium! Students participated in hands-on actities and got to explore the aquarium on their own. Highlights: Octopus, fish and sea lion feedings, scuba diver dress up and touch tanks. Whale PBL: Students are becoming whale experts! Students chose their top 3 whales, explaining questions and wonders about their options. I then went through and assigned a wide variety of whales to students so that we will be experts about whales on every inch of the globe. If students want to start doing research at home they may do so and bring it in. Topics we will research: whale communication and behavior, feeding habits, migration patterns, babies, sleeping, and other fun facts unique to their whale. Math: We finished up fractions and geometry with a post-assessment. On to time! Writing: Students closely considered carefully chosen words in poetry. We tried out alliterations, similes, and repeated words to create rhythm.
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Important dates: May 9 - Whale Tales - In-school speaker May 11 - Field trip - Aquarium May xx - Poetry celebration! (Date TBA) May 17 - In-school whale speaker May 19 - Talent show May 20 - Field trip - Whale Watching May 30 - Memorial Day - No School Hi families, This week in math we started comparing, adding and subtracting fractions. We first named a fraction as an equal part of a whole. We then labeled fractions in word form and numerical form. Ask your students about the numerator and denominator (Which one is the whole? Which one is the part?). In second grade students should be able to identify, name and compare 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. In addition, students should be able to take a rectangle and split it up into 2, 3 and 4 equal parts and count the number of parts. Later, comparing fractions, we discussed how if we had a cookie of the same size, what would be more, 2 equals parts or 23 equal parts? We then started adding and subtracting like fractions, finishing up the week by playing Bump, an adding fractions game. We will finish up fractions next week and start in on time! THANK YOU! Thank you so much to everyone for the wonderful gifts, food, flowers, compliments and coffee! This has been a great week and I have really felt your appreciation. I look forward to sharing the rest of the year with you and your students! HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!! |
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