Last week we began a new unit in Writing Workshop by looking at favorite books in our classroom library for story ideas! Children were reminded of many wonderful stories from their own lives by looking at the works of famous authors. These ideas were recorded in tiny topics notepads to be used in Writing Workshop. Check out some examples below! We have been talking about how stories are all around us in our everyday lives and how writers use these to create wonderful pieces of writing. The tiny topics notepads have been a hit with second graders and they continue to add story ideas to them throughout the day! In this unit, we will learn about how to write, revise, and edit narrative stories to make them interesting and easy to read.
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In other news, we continue to study stars in our sun, moon, and stars science unit. In reading, we have been talking about making predictions. Today in math we talked about adding 9 to any number (it's easiest to first add 10, then subtract 1!). We'll continue to learn specific strategies for adding and subtracting numbers throughout second grade.
Be sure to ask your child about the iPad apps we've been using for Word Work- Chicktionary and Cimo Spelling!
