Happy Monday Bighorns,
Well...we are back to a full work week AND we should be finished with homework sheets for the MOST part! We will begin the week with telling time! The second grade standard is to: tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest 5 minutes, differentiating between a.m and p.m.
Last week we focused on Partial Sums and Differences with Renaming a number. The students did a great job working together and coaching their partner! We even held a relay race with word problems and invited Mrs. Mackedon to come down to watch as we worked together towards ACCURACY not who was the first group finished! Each group had 100% accuracy!!
We will review these concepts and also work on a new concept called “Arrow Diagrams.” We will mainly focus on this concept in class, Mrs. Bloomfield worked on this concept last year when the kids were in first grade!
Arrow Diagram-
Example:
51 + 34 =
+30 +4
51 ➜81 ➜85
Basically you add the tens together to find a sum, then add the ones, and find the sum by drawing an arrow to each new sum.
Writing - we hope to complete our partner projects, practice and find a time for the parents to come in so that the students can present them to their families. The kids had to make a cover page, resource page, type up facts and then make a small slideshow displaying their animal and both a political and physical map of where there animal lives.
Projects - our class continues to focus on Geography. We have been discussing political vs. physical maps. We also pulled in some geography into our writing projects by adding a physical and political map to which area each animal was native to.
First and second graders were invited to explore the middle school's simple machine projects. They had a great time seeing all the great work of the middle school kids. They were very inventive. Here are a few pictures from this...
Homework for the week of February 22nd...
Monday
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IXL - Q.1 Match analog clocks and times
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Tuesday
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IXL - Q.2 Match digital clocks and times
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Wednesday
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IXL - Q.3 Match analog and digital clocks
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Thursday
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Q.4 Read clocks: hour and half hour/half past
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