Language Arts
Our final passage in our La vida silvestre unit was Un lugar secreto. During this week we focused on:
- Homophones
- Author’s purpose (to inform, to explain, to entertain, to persuade)
- Identifying a good beginning and producing a good beginning in a writing piece.
- Using a graphic organizer
- Review of dialogue, commas in a series, verbs, capitals and punctuation in preparation for next week’s end of unit exam.
Writing
We continued our daily journal writing. The students all had a lot to share! It was very fun to see them dive right back into their routines.
We also used a graphic organizer to describe an everyday classroom object and then the students did the same with one of their Hanukkah or Christmas gifts.
Spelling/ ortografia(Words with Y – Test on Tuesday 1/12)
yo
ayer
leyes
yema
rey
oye
estoy
desayuno
ya
voy
muy
fluyen
vaya
hay
joya
Math
This week we jumped right into division. Previously the students learned multiplication as repeated addition, and division as sharing or grouping. We have been working on our multiplication facts for 0-10, and are learned division using repeated subtraction or related multiplication facts.
In this new division unit concepts will be extended to division situations with remainders. We discussed how the dividend does not always divide exactly into equal groups, but sometimes leaves a remainder.
Vocabulary
quotient / cociente – A quotient is the answer in a division problem.
remainder / residuo – A remainder is the number left over when a number cannot be divided equally.
even/par numbers – When an even number is divided by 2, there is no remainder.
odd /impar numbers – When an odd number is divided by 2, there is a remainder of 1.
Social Studies
Everyone finished their final draft of the five senses Viking village paragraph this week. We also had a great time making our own personal Viking paper doll. You will see both the writing piece and the Vikings on the bulletin board next week. We read about family like in a Nordic village this week and wrote out responses to summary questions and then shared some of these in class.
Science
We had some wonderful questions, comments and reflections this week during science. On Tuesday we read about the qualities of sound, we discussed how different kinds of instruments make sound and the type of sounds you would hear from them. It was fun to hear all the different instruments members of the class play. We also did some seat work on sound waves and measuring sound. On Friday our read a loud focused on voice. We took a closer look at the anatomy of voice, understanding how the diaphragm, lungs, trachea, larynx, and vocal chords work together to produce sound. Some of the students also had time to begin researching some possible experiments for our light and sound project.
English Spelling/Writing
The class recieved their new sorts this week and had some time to work on their activities, but we did not take a spelling test due to the shortened week. We will have the same sort next week and both the test and activities will be due on Friday the 15.
For grammar review this week, we spent more time working on homophones. We especially focused on commonly confused ones such as: They’re, their, there, one, won, two, too, to and are, our.
During our journal writing time, we wrote about our two weeks off and we also compared and contrasted our daily life to that of Bjorn’s ( a character from our Social Studies read aloud)
Art
In 2nd3rd grade art, the students learned how to start a small woven bookmark. We looked at a photo of a woven Navajo saddle blanket, and the students learned about looms, and the warp (lengthwise threads) and weft (horizontal threads). Next week we’ll continue working on this weaving project. The students are off to a great start!