Important dates: Wednesday, May 10 - Early Release Wednesday, May 24 - Field trip - Pacific Northwest Ballet Friday, May 26 - Field trip - Discovery Park Monday, May 29 - Memorial Day - No School Hi families, We kicked off our PBL (project based learning) of whales! Already this week we had so much learning going on. Monday, we had Laurie from Whales Scouts come present about the resident orcas living in our very own Puget Sound. Tuesday we had a blubber experiment (students put their hands in icy water with and without "blubber", 2 plastic bags lined with Crisco) , and Thursday we had a baleen vs. toothed activity ("How do baleen and teeth work")! Our word wall is already filled of keywords we will need to be experts on the topic. More to come next week. Ask your student 2 words that they learned this week about whales. Math We started a short unit this week of Mental Math. It is a review unit, a time for students to practice their addition and subtraction strategies in their heads. Playing games and repetition is a great way for students to get practice! On Thursday, I sent home one way to practice. It is called a "Pluzzle", a plus math question and a puzzle put together. Play with your child at home and see if they can stump you! Writing We continued our non-fiction writing review focusing on text features (specifically explaining with pictures) and conclusions. Today, we took our second grade checklist and evaluated our writing, looking at strengths and challenges, and making goals for the remainder of our non-fiction writing unit. Reading In our non-fiction book clubs, we looked at how non-fiction text features help us understand more about our non-fiction topic. Authors give a lot of cues and clues to what they want to teach us. Understanding what the text features are and how they work, increases what students can learn from a non-fiction book!
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