This week in Language Arts, we had a mixed bag of fun! We began our week learning about quotation marks and how to use them! This was especially useful, because so many of us have been including dialogue in our stories, but haven't known how to do so correctly. We learned what quotation marks are, and we practiced writing one paragraph short stories with two characters talking to one another. Second Graders are writers! We then spent a couple days doing the current round of TILE assessments. And to top it off, we closed out the week with the in class spelling bee! We talked about having good sportsmanship during the bee, whether we spelled the words correctly or not... and it was a success! We conducted ourselves very well. We also learned the value in keeping an awareness of our words. They don't know it yet, but... we may be having a few more practice spelling bees in our class before the year is up. 😉

This week in Math, we continued practicing our 8s timestables. As a class, we have collectively gotten much stronger with our 8s, but that's not where the true victory lies. Sometimes we're not sure what the answer is, and it's helped us hone our abilites as problem solvers. If we don't know 9x5, we're reminded that we DO know 5x9 and then it clicks! Or maybe we really can't get it, and we have to use our circle groups to figure out the answer. Either way, we're getting that practice in using our logic brains to keep us moving forward! We also took the time to do our math TILE this week as well. The crown jewel of this week was circling back to fractions and diving all the way in! We learned about halves, thirds, and fourths. We also learned that the dividing line means "out of," and how to identify the fraction of something out of an overall group!