December 7-11

Last week we finished up our Rock Unit. The students had a lot of fun learning about Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic rocks. Apple Day was a fun and exciting day. Thank you for all bringing an apple and even extras! We described an apple using adjectives, we investigated the outside and inside of an apple, we wrote an expository (how-to) paragraph telling how we made our apple crisp, we also had fun apple story problems, and an appleseed toss game. The students had fun and it was nice to change our routine for a day!

Writing: Our Thanksgiving descriptive paragraph is up in the hall if you want to come take a look. This week we will be doing our final copy of our expository paragraph from apple day.

Art: We are working on a winter scene. This involves drawing, coloring, and painting. We will finish our projects this week!

Language Arts: Abbreviations and Antonyms

Math: We finished up our Math Camp on place value last week. We have been practicing everyday addition and subtraction with double digits. These involve borrowing and carrying. I know the students will be successful but we have to review review review so they leave second grade being able to do these with no problem. Please review this at home.

This week's math focus:

• Read and show on-the-hour and half-hour times on an analog clock.
• Solve problems that involve elapsed time.
• Read and show times past the hour (five-minute intervals) on an analog clock.
• Interpret, analyze, and compare data in a pictograph and tally chart.