Mrs. Turley's Tidbits
Week of 3/6 - 3/10
FUN FAIR Tonight...See you there!!
Fundations:
We finally finished Unit 10 and took the assessment. Now, on to Unit 11 and its focus of the vowel teams -ee, -ea, -ey. They are just as tricky as the r-controlled vowels -er, -ir, and -ur. We will be practicing spelling "with our eyes" asking "What looks right?" when spelling words with the long e sound.
Literacy:
Room 1 students are LOVING the study of dinosaurs along with our Earth's Systems Unit in our Schoolwide Curriculum for reading with meaning. We have been reading about forces that change the surface of the earth and how those changes give us fossils to study about the past.
This week our focus switched from fossil formation to learning about dinosaurs. We read and responded to text and then worked on a Performance Task to create a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting dinosaurs by their diet - herbivores or carnivores, and also identified any similarities. From that activity, the students wrote an Information Book to synthesize their learning. They included text features such as diagrams, labels, sub-headings, etc. This meets our Priority Standard RI.2.9 Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. You will be so proud of these budding paleontologists when you read their books!
Math:
Most of our week was spent on Addition and Subtraction Word Problems. We want our students to leave 2nd Grade with a strong command of this mathematical practice. This work comes under the Common Core Standard 2.OA.1 - I can use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems with unknown numbers in different positions. In analyzing and solving these types of problems, students need to reason abstractly and quantitatively. The students have been very focused in this work and have shown great stamina throughout the week. Bravo to them!
Writing Workshop:
Our Writing Workshop has meshed easily with our Literacy work this week. As we've learned more and more details about dinosaurs, we are putting what we are learning into Information Books. Nonfiction Writing is the unit we are in for our Writing Curriculum and it's a bonus to have a topic that the students are highly motivated about. They are actively engaged as authors/illustrators each day!
Ria used her "Teach for Turley" pass...she was amazing! I could have gone on coffee break!
Wednesday was Teacher Recess Day. Of course it had to be the windiest day of the year!
Alli doing some online research for her dinosaur.
Frankie takes his dino research very seriously.
Elijah is a paleontologist in the making!
Ria is focused and becoming quite the dinosaur expert.
Hooray for Dinosaurs!
Getting our facts straight.
Tablemates make work seem fun!
Time flies by quickly when we go back to prehistoric time!
Ria found a "fossil" at recess and Johanna is inspecting it.
Ana found one too! Lucky day for fossil finding!
Experiment to experience sound waves.
Feeling the vibration and sound from a tap on a yardstick.
Doing research on seismic waves which can cause earthquakes.
Johanna reached 100% fact fluency in addition, subtraction, mulitiplication and division! Way to go!
Kyle lost a tooth. He said the Tooth Fairy was VERY kind to him.
Our lockers are celebrating the month of March!
Mrs. Love instructing us on Google Slides for our Dino Research Project.
From written research to digital product...
we will show you our depth of knowledge!
Upcoming Special Events...
March 16th - Book Reports Due
March 16th - Mix It Up at Lunch Day
March 20th - Field Museum Field Trip Permission Slip and $$ Due
March 21st - Celebrate Diversity Day at Meadowview School! Wear mismatched socks!
March 21st - World Down Sydrome Day
March 23rd - Spring Picture Day...SMILE!
March 24th - End of 3rd Quarter
March 27th - March 31st - No School...SPRING BREAK!
Rosemary Turley
Email: turleyr@woodridge68.org
Website: www.woodridge68.org
Location: 2525 Mitchell Drive, Woodridge, IL, United States
Phone: 630-969-2390
Twitter: @turleyrfox