This week in Language Arts, we re-engaged our work with nouns, verbs, and adjectives. We wrote complex sentences using our spelling words. We also continued working on Ekphrasis Poetry. This week, we used a contemporary, pop culture image to draw inspiration from- a still from the Academy Award Wininng film "Into the Spiderverse." The challenge here was strategically placed, considering most of the class has actually seen the film. Can you write about the image's impact on you in this moment, without slipping into talking about the scene you already have memorized? It's a simple exercise, but a layered one, requiring a deeper level of self awareness and focus. Proud to say that 2nd Grade handled this challenge very well!

This week in Math, we contined our practice of singing through all of our timestables songs at least twice each day this week. We fully integrated back into practicing our borrowing, and carrying, and calculating time. These are fully acquired skills which can slip in execution from time to time, but the way we were able to tackle these math problems was awesome to see! We also revisited rounding (to the tens AND hundreds place!), and we all found our way! Mr. Josh also broke down the formulas for multi digit multiplication and long division into fun, itemized themes to help us remember the steps! Multiplication is the actors on stage thanking the fans in the audience, and division is patrons each trying to acquire equal portions of pastry from a bakery. This format helped a number of us greatly with understanding what was being asked of us, and how to mentally lodge the necessary steps.