ELA and Math and more! in Gr 2
March 4, 2016
The first week in March in ELA (reading)...
We are very excited about our new books this week. We're reading about an elderly gentleman who is easily distracted. We'll discuss realistic fiction, adjectives, R-controlled vowels, and strange consonant combinations.
After we read about "Ben's Trumpet", we listened to some spoken word jazz and decided to put some of our poetry to music. Dig the results on the attached doc, cat.
We also read a non-fiction piece about Rain Forest Animals, and Mrs. Doerfler was our substitute while I was the the zoo with the 7/8th grade class on Friday. I got to see some of those animals in action!
I'm looking forward to sharing some specifics about your children in our upcoming conferences!
Here are some of our doppelgängers who played learning fair math games:
Hit the Target!
Choose a target (eg 50, 100, or 200!)
Choose a "tricky" starting number on your calculator that has a ones digit that is 1,2,3,4, 6,7,8, or 9. Challenge your partner to CHANGE the starting number (by adding) to hit the target in a few moves as possible.
Name that Number
in this game we use in everyday math deck. The rules are found online or in our MRB (my reference book). We love this game because it uses all of our computation skills from addition to subtraction to multiplication.
SWISH
This game is so much time because it uses our visual processing skills. You have to match a "donut" and a dot that are the same color and in the same space on the card. This game is available at local stores for learning games.