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I can hardly believe how close Team 210 is to becoming second graders! We have so many fun things planned to round out this wonderful year and I look forward to seeing, not only the growth these students will make in these final months together, but also being able to look back and see a year's worth of growth in action! Here we go into the homestretch! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we dove fully into studying nonfiction texts in our literacy groups. We have reviewed common text features such as bold print, the table of contents, photos, captions, labels, headings, the glossary, and an index. As we read nonfiction, we are simultaneously studying nonfiction writing as our final unit of the year. All of this is tied together as we are exposed to nonfiction texts in order to write our own about our NH animals! Our books this week also helped us classify animals into the categories of mammal, reptile, fish, amphibian, bird, and insect. Word Study...This week, we learned the new vowel team, -ue, which has two sounds. -ue sounds different in the word rescue and blue. We have almost learned all of the vowel teams that make the long vowel sounds. Along the way, we have also been discussing the rule that an -e after a vowel and consonant can make the vowel long. Math...This week our focus was on the language in addition and subtraction word problems and solving word problems using both base-ten blocks and an empty number line. We created two charts where we highlighted the language we should be looking for in word problems to let us know whether we should add or subtract. For example, we listed that if we read "in all," "all together," "more," or a word like "gets" or "earns," then we will be adding. But if we read "fewer," "left over," "loses," or phrases like "gives away," then we will most likely be subtracting. Writing...As we dive into nonfiction writing, we began by asking ourselves the question, "Why do writers write nonfiction in the first place?" We answered that nonfiction writers have information that they want to teach to their readers. Each of us has at least one thing we can teach to someone else, so that is where we began our journey with nonfiction this week. We brainstormed and began our very own "how-to" writing pieces. We chose one thing we felt like we were experts at and listed what materials we needed, what the steps were that needed to be carried out, and also added some diagrams and labels to help out our readers. We also divided our information into sections with headings. All in preparation for writing our animal reports! Upcoming Events!
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