December continues to fly by! We are starting many new units this week.
Tuesday, December 12 - No School (inservice for teachers)
Wednesday, December 13-Holiday Wear
Thursday, December 21 – 2nd Grade AM Field trip to Barlow Planetarium
Thursday, December 21-Pajama Day
December 22-January 1 – No School Winter Break
Tuesday, January 2 – Classes resume
Reading - This week we start our third reading unit - Studying Characters and their Stories. We move from studying main ideas and key details to characters and life lessons. Our first week in the unit centralizes on recalling what we already know about reading fiction. Readers start reading by thinking about what they know about the characters and how the story might go. This is a favorite unit for both students and teachers!
Writing - Our writing genre changes this week too. We begin our third writing unit, Writing Gripping Fictional Stories. This unit has the writers use their previous small moment writing skills to write 'edge-of-the-seat fiction stories', stories that have made up characters and events, could happen in real life, and have the reader on the edge of their seats. This is also a favorite unit for all of us!
Math - We continue working our way through Unit 3, Length and Shapes. This week we continue to work with triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons and hexagons. We will be measuring using centimeters and comparing 2-D and 3-D shapes.
Science - We're finishing up our planet presentation, and will be moving into our new unit at the end of the week-Changes. This unit focused on solids, liquids and gases and how they change.
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