TEAM 13 entered the recording studio! Students recorded themselves reading using the SeeSaw app! Students then listened back to their reading to self- assess their expression and fluency! After the first round of recordings- Team 13 had Fluency Bootcamp! We learned strategies to help improve our fluency like noticing dialogue tags and paying attention to punctuation! After Bootcamp, we recorded ourselves again and assessed our improvement!
In celebration of our unit Studying Characters, students created a "Guess Who?" using their favorite characters! They answered questions about their characters to give little clues and decorated the crowns with hints as well! Then we walked around and tried to guess each character! Students loved hearing stories about Michael Clontz's time in Ghana! He brought in a kente cloth and an adinkra cloth to show the students! Thank you for coming! If any other Team 13 families have connections to our second grade curriculum, please don't hesitate to reach out!
Students collected interesting words they "caught" while reading! We are going to start exploring these fancy words to build our vocabulary! Look out for a vocabulary homework connection coming soon!
Students looked at story problems like... stories! Just with some missing parts! We paid attention to which part was missing and how that changes our approach to solving the problem!
As a launch for our new unit on Addition & Subtraction strategies, students watched a boy make trail mix. He poured in some Chex, some cheerios, some m&ms and one little raisins. Students were then sent off to explore different combinations he could have made! Through this activity, students begin to notice patterns between the combinations and parts to 100. Students observed United States currency to realize countries often put important historical and cultural figures on their currency. Then we observed Ghana currency, the cedi, to learn about the Big 6 members (important leaders that lead Ghana to independence) and important buildings across Ghana.
Students observed primary sources (photographs) from Ghana and drew conclusions as social scientists what this tells us about Ghana's geography.
Student began exploring subtraction strategies by comparing coin amounts. Students investigated 3 questions with the different amounts. 1. Who has more? How much more? 2. Who has less? How much less? 3. How can you make the amounts the same? Students come to realize that they get the same answer for each question! This fosters a discussion about the idea of constant difference for subtraction and the relationship between addition and subtraction. Students had a lot of fun using different ways to show their math thinking! |
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