I always enjoy putting a focus on kindness in the classroom - the students really brighten up the World with their ideas for how to treat people better! After reading "How Full is Your Bucket?" the students create Pink Shirt Day badges as a pledge against bullying. These were taken home today and the students are very proud of them.
Afterwards, we began studying vehicles in science! After reading Disney's Cinderella, students studied the parts of Cinderella's carriage. Together they brainstormed the parts the carriage needed: wheels, somewhere to sit, and something to hold it all together. They learned that axles are what the carriage sits on and what keeps the wheels in place. We are very excited to build our carriages tomorrow! Grade twos continued exploring polygons today. Remember that ANY shape is considered a polygon if it has straight and closed lines. However, polygons are actually broken up into more groups too. These groups are named based on the number of sides and vertices a shape has: Polygons that have 3 sides and 3 vertices are triangles. Polygons that have 4 sides and 4 vertices are quadrilaterals. Polygons that have 5 sides and 5 vertices are pentagons. TRI = 3 QUAD = 4 PENT = 5 Grade ones learned a quicker way to count past ten: using tens and ones blocks! After laying out 14 cubes on a 100s chart, I showed students a tens block. It means 10 and we can use it to count our first row on our 100s chart. Then, I showed students the ones blocks. We need to cover the remaining squares after 10 to get our total number. Students practiced finding out how many blocks a given number requires such as: 12 = ________ tens block and _______ ones blocks ( 1 and 2) 15 = ________ tens block and _______ ones blocks (1 and 5) 17 = ________ tens block and _______ ones blocks (1 and 7) 19 = ________ tens block and _______ ones blocks (1 and 9) Students started noticing a pattern here too! In a two digit number, the first digit represents the tens and the second digit represents that ones! So: 12 = 1 tens block and 2 ones blocks Ask your student to show their work for the above numbers!
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