Community Field Trip

Oh MY!  Our walking Community field trip was so much fun.  It was a beautiful morning for our walk and the class looked so cute in their Park View T Shirts!

We visited the fire station and the town hall!

We even got to take a turn in the Mayor's Chair!

They worked hard on their handshakes and eye contact!

This week in class, we learned all about turkeys!  We even wrote with turkey feather pencils in our writing center!

Here is a fun fact video that we watched to help us research all about turkeys!

 In math, we worked on place value to the hundred's place.  We are working to represent numbers in Standard Form: 232
Word Form: two hundred thirty two
Expanded Form: 200+30+2
Base Ten: Drawing Base Ten Blocks

We also focused on skip counting by 1s, 10,s and 100s.  
You can download some missing number 100 boards for some skill practice HERE.  If you are looking for a more challenging activity for home, click HERE for some fun logic puzzles!

I also LOVE Sudoku puzzles!  These are great for getting the thinking juices flowing!  Here is a fun link to check out from Fun Brain. 

Next week, we will be reading Turk and Rut and focusing on Main Idea and details!  Here is a video read of the book. 

Have a great weekend! 

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Author's Purpose

This week in 2nd grade,  we focused on Author's Purpose and the Election Process.  Below is our anchor chart for reading.  We used the acronym PIE to represent author's purpose as to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. We discussed the main idea of stories and how to use details to help us support our thinking.  

The class read the book, Duck for President and we also went through the voting process as we voted for Duck or Farmer Brown. Below is an online reading of the story. 

We had so much fun tallying our votes and graphing the results in math.  

In math, we worked on the expanded form of three digit numbers.  Below is our anchor chart: 

We worked to determine the value of each digit in a number by representing it in base ten blocks.  Next week we will be focusing on skip counting with 3 digit numbers and using the place value to support our thinking.  

Click to check out this online site below: 

We also spent some time working on persuasive writing in class.  Students are working to state their opinion, use details to support their thinking and then restate their opinion.  We wrote about Farmer Brown and Duck this week.  Check out some of our work below!

Important Dates:

Fall Picture Make up Day-11/10

No School Election Day-11/11

It is not too late to sign up for Fall Conferences:  You can do so by clicking the link below: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b4caaaf2da1f58-fall

Don't forget to send back the YELLOW permission slip for our play on December 15th.  We will be seeing The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at ImaginOn Theatre!  

Have a fun and safe weekend!