Wednesday, November 13, 2013

News from our Classroom

We began our week sharing about our weekends and learning a new morning meeting song called "Aroostasha."  Ask your child to share it with you!  In math, we are working on the relation between addition and subtraction.  For example, 14-10 is the same as 10+ __=14.  In writing workshop we published our stories by recording them into the iPads.  Our next writing unit will be a poetry that incorporates children's watercolor paintings.  More to come about this in our blog!

In social studies, we learned about what it was like to be a Pilgrim boy and Pilgrim girl.  Ask your second grader to share about Pilgrim children's daily chores and the clothes they wore!  This week we'll learn about the life of Wampanoag Native Americans.

If you're looking for some good read-alouds or chapter books for your child, these are some series that are quite popular in our class right now:
   
The Littles Series                            Magic Tree House Series
Amelia Bedelia Series
     
 Horrible Harry Series                    Junie B. Jones Series