Happy Friday!

We have had an AMAZING week!  The kiddos worked so super hard and had many fun events this week! :)

DBRL Field Trip

We had a fun field trip to Daniel Boone Regional Library on Tuesday!  We learned about all the different parts of the library.  We had an opportunity to explore the art that was created by Lee Elementary students - you should ask your kiddo who or what they saw in the different art on the walls (famous Missourians, fables & fairy tales, and nonfiction/technology).  You can check out all of our pictures by clicking here.

Salina Yoon

Yesterday, Salina Yoon came to visit RBE!!  The students were infatuated with her and it was so neat to see the excitement on their faces!  When they got back to the classroom they worked SO incredibly hard on thank you cards for her and many of them wanted to enjoy her books again by rereading them.  You can check out pictures of her visit by clicking here.  If your family would like to go see Salina Yoon or other authors at Unbound this weekend here is the schedule.

Book Talks

Mrs. McKinzie came in today and did her final book talk of the year.  She shared Surf's Up, Seven and a Half Tons of Steel and Alien Gets the Sniffles Too.  The kids can check them out in the library next week.

This Week in 2nd Grade

• Math
• This week: We talked about partitioning and arrays.  We learned that when you partition a shape it has to be divided into equal part.  We also learned what an array is and that an array has to equal number in each row (picture below).  For the array below you can describe it a variety of ways
• 5 by 3; this array is NOT a 3 by 5 because you always talk about the rows first
• 5 rows of 3
• 3 columns of 5
• 3+3+3+3+3=15; this array does NOT show 5+5+5=15 because when doing repeated addition you add the number in each row not the columns.
• 5 x 3=15; this array does NOT show 3 x 5=15 because when doing multiplication the rows always goes first

• Next week: We will finish up Unit 8, take our Unit 8 post-test, and start Unit 9.  If you want to help your child review for this test you can review the vocabulary that was in the blog on April 6 or the HomeLinks that came home a few weeks ago.  Coming home in your child's Friday Folder is what we will be doing in our last math unit - can you believe that we are already getting ready to start our last math unit?  Time is flying by!
• Writing
• This week: We started publishing our Which is Better writing.  I am so impressed with how hard the kiddos have worked on this project
• Next week:  We will finish up publishing our writing.  We will also be creating a project to go along with our writing.  We will have a writing show case and be inviting parents and other students to see our projects.  As soon as we have a better idea of when projects will be complete we will be sharing this date. 
• Reading
• This week: We learned a new fancy word onomatopoeia and went on an onomatopoeia scavenger hunt in books.  You should ask your kiddo what does onomatopoeia mean! 
• Next week: We will be talked about cause effects in stories that we read.
• Word Study
• This week: We focused on r-influenced words with the vowel i (ire, ier).
• Next week: We will continue to focus on r-influenced words but with the letter o (ore, oar, oddball).  Next weeks words are: shore, more, store, wore, soar, roar, board, hoarse, floor, four.
• Science
• This week: We continued our conversation of how the Earth surface changes by rapid changes.  Students became experts on volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.  They researched by reading articles, reading books & watching a short video on their topic.  Then the students made a poster on their topic.  Today the student had an opportunity to get together with other experts and share their knowledge.  This type of learning is called jigsaw - each person is responsible for a piece of the puzzle and then when you put all the pieces together you see the whole puzzle.
• Next week: We will continue to talk about what an organism needs to survive.  Students will need to explain the basic needs of plants and how well or poorly a plant grows when on of their needs is removed (sunlight, soil or water).  Student will also need to be able to explain how animal help plants reproduce (transferring pollen or dispersing seeds).  This unit will transfer over to our field trip to Runge Nature Center on May 15.  We would LOVE for parent volunteers to help chaperone this field trip.  A permission slip will be coming home soon, but if you have not already put this date on your calendar please make sure that you have it!

Upcoming Dates

• May 11 - Variety Show
• May 15 - Runge Field Trip
• May 16 - Field Day
• May 22 - Last Day of School (early dismissal)

A Few Pictures from the Week

Have a fabulous weekend!

Mrs. Ross

Happy Friday!

We had a wonderful second week in April!  Spring fever has kind of set in with the kiddos.  Please review with your child school expectations - especially being respectful listeners when instruction is happening (we've been kind of chatty this week).

Special Things Are Happening Next Week!

• On Monday, we have an opportunity for a few MU readers to come and read to us!  
• On Tuesday, we have our field trip to Daniel Boone Regional Library.  We will be leaving school at 8:45 and will be returning around 10:30.
• On Wednesday, we have our third installment of our nutrition class.  
• On Thursday, Salina Yoon will be at RBE.  The kiddos and teachers are super excited about her visit!  Today we made door decorations to welcome her to our school (check out the pictures).  There are still copies of Salina Yoon's book that will be signed available.  A sheet went home in last week's Friday's Folders or you can click here to view the form.
• On Friday, Mrs. McKinzie will be coming in for her April book talks.

 

Checkout What's Happening in Moss World!

• Math: We continued learn about geometry this week!  We finished up our re-engagement lesson on Monday.  The kiddos discovered how to draw a quadrilateral with only two right angles - these sheets are coming home in your child's Friday Folder (we individually talked to each kiddo about their paper so we did not mark on their paper).  We have learned about a variety 3-D shapes (cubes, rectangular prism), cones, cylinders, pyramids) and how to partition a rectangle into equal parts. 
• Next week, we will be creating arrays and number models to go along with them.
• Writing: We finished up writing our Which is Better book by writing our opinion paragraph.  We took everything that we learned about writing an opinion (VALID reasons and counterarguments) and included them in our writing.  We worked on editing and revising our writing to make it the BEST it can be.
• Next week, we will start publishing our Which is Better books.
• Reading: We talked about comparing and contrasting resources  this week.  We compared a nonfictional text to another nonfictional text or media.  The kiddos are able to write a similarity and a difference between two different sources.  Some of the topics we learned about was Wilma Rudolph, the true story of Winnie-the-Pooh, Mark Twain/Tom Sawyer.  You should ask your kiddo about what they learned this week - you will be impressed!
• Next week, we will be starting our poetry unit and talking about onomatopoeia.
• Word Study: We have continued to work on r-influenced words.  This week we have focused on eer, ear and oddball words (words that don't fit the pattern).  
• Next week, we will focus on ire and ier words (there are also oddball words).  Here are next week's words: hire, tire, wire, fire, drier, pliers, fliers, crier, liar, pier.
• Science - Earth's Surface: We have continued to talk about what causes the Earth's surface to change.  We have learned about slow changes (weathering, erosion & deposition) - we have even learned a song to help us know what each does.  You should ask your kiddo to sing the song for you (it is to the tune of "Farmer in the Dell")!  Yesterday, we started talking about things that cause rapid changes to the Earth's surface (volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis & landslides).  The kiddos partnered up and are researching one of these topics to become "experts."  
• Next week, we will finish up our research and then all the new experts to will teach others about what they have learned.  They are really excited about this presentation! :)
• Science - Living Organisms: We are also starting to talk about living organisms and what most plants need to survive.  We set up an experiment today for the kiddos to prove what plants needs.  Our control (Marigold A) has all three sunlight, water & soil.  Then we changed the variable of the other plants: no water, too much water, no soil, and no light.  We will be observing our plants every week to see if our hypothesis is true that marigolds need sunlight, water and soil to grow.
• On Monday, we had Maker Space!  We had an opportunity to make paths with Ozobots, program and move a Dash robot, and build circuits with Snap Circuits.  The kiddos had a blast!
• Today, Mrs. Neale came and read/sang us two books Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World.  It was so cute to hear the kiddos sing along!

 

Check Out Pictures From the Week