Week in Review ~ October 9th - 13th

In ELA  we talked about how baby animals move.  Our vocabulary words were movement, exhausted, exciting, arrived, and adventure.  We listened to the stories Pouch! and The Tortoise and the Hare.  Pouch! was a favorite story by all. Ask your child about the animals that scared the baby kangaroo back into his mom's pouch.  We focused in on the letter Aa and read words that were part of the _at, _am and _ap word families such as hat, ram and tap.  The sight word we was introduced as well. This week we also talked about what a noun is. The K2ers sorted picture cards into person, place, thing/animal categories. In learning centers the K2ers sorted names that had an Aa in them and names that did not, wrote in their journals about how animals move, practiced writing uppercase and lowercase Aa, and practiced writing the sight words I, can and the for review.

In Math we continued on with Topic 2.  We worked on the terms "equal to" and "greater than." Each math lesson starts with something called a Solve & Share.  Students are given a problem to solve and as I walk around I am always looking for different ways that the K2ers came to the same correct answer. I then choose some students to "share" how they came to their answer.  The purpose of this activity is to show the students that often there isn't just one way to come to the answer.  I was so impressed with the math thinking that went on during one of our lessons this week...I found 5 different ways that the problem was solved.  Here is a glimpse into the mathematical thinking of K2!

We will be working on Topic 2 again this coming week. 

We are also well into our School Wide read-aloud of the book Rump! On November 3rd we will be participating in a School Wide Read-Aloud celebration.  Each classroom has been asked to make a pixie habitat on that day using various materials collected by the students in each class. The K2ers brainstormed some items to bring in. If you have any of the following items and would like to send them in, it would be greatly appreciated.