October 20, 2019
Frost on the ground to STEAM in the classroom!
I have our releases for pictures for our blog! I'm so excited to share these wonderful photos with you of our learning in second grade. Let's start with our Wildflowers STEAM lesson. Thank you to Erin Mateo and Damaris Martinez for teaching us about balance, gravity, tinkering, creativity and helping us to practice our growth mindset!
We learned:
*Two new word study activities: sound boxes and two-word rhyme poems. The word wizards in our classroom are creative and deep thinkers!
*Our classroom loves to write! We have drafted our first personal narrative stories with illustrations. We are writing over multiple pages using sequencing words to help us: First, Next, Then, Last. We read Shortcut by Donald Crews as a Mentor Text to help us add detail to our stories.
*We took a unit one post-test in math. I will review them with each student this week as part of the teacher station in our math menu.
*We started our Reading Menu. Each day, after our lesson, our students read independently, with a teacher and then they may choose one of the activities involving speaking, listening, reading and writing.
We experienced:
*RMCS third grade invited us to an assembly about raising money to support schools in Honduras.
*Ms. Amblo introduced us to Slo Moe, her sloth. The sloth helps us to remember to slow down, look around and breathe. We all made sloths with our hands and put them around the classroom as a reminder.
*Reading Are You My Monster by Amanda Noll and Horrible Harry by Suzy Kline.
*Counted cubes in our classroom with the SBHS SLAM community service team. They helped each table count into the hundreds using the strategy of making and counting by 10's.
*Pinnate and Palmate are words we can use to describe the leaves falling around us. We are counting by 3's and 4's in our number corner calendar as well.
*We are collecting 5 minutes each day in number corner as we move the minute hand around the clock.
*We start our afternoon learning a new mindful movement, involving breathing and stretching.
*We start our afternoon learning a new mindful movement, involving breathing and stretching.
*We introduced an Atlas this week and our students finished a scavenger hunt to help them discover what's inside.
Group Juggling, Hot and Cold and the Blanket Name Game
Creative Arts classes
Recess choices
Please note
Thank you for sending in a white t-shirt to tie-dye as part of an all-school event the week of October 28th.
Thank you for sending in some pennies for our penny drive.
I hope you enjoy the weekend,
Mrs. Belisle
