First Grade

We finished our patterning unit and have begun another unit on addition and subtraction. This week we practiced combinations of numbers with a focus on partners to 10.  

Grade 2 

Students continue to work on problem solving with double digit numbers and using efficient strategies such as pulling their tens and ones out, adding the tens and then adding the ones. 

42+36

40+30=70

2+6=8

70+8=78

We have been focusing on silent e and r controlled vowels the past couple of weeks. Students are working on learning to spell and read these features with fluency. They also read and explored informational text with their reading buddies. We are also working on Power Words, which are words that typically don't follow phonics rules ( said ) or are words that are frequently used in written text. 

We have begun our Wild and endangered unit from our new literacy program. Students explored informational text and picked their top 3 animals to study. They also found some interesting facts that we call, "Wow" facts.  They will find out Monday which animal they will be studying. With this unit, we received many bins of beautiful new texts on animals that the student  have been so motivated to read. We will spend the next 9 weeks writing reports on an animal and then preparing our classroom for a culminating event where the students turn our classroom into the savanna and showcase their learning!