A Great Week! By: Danny

We had a good time this week at school. We did a lot of math this week! We learned a new strategy to solve doubles +1 facts. We sang a little song to help us remember, it went like this: "THINK about the double of the LOWER number and ADD... ONE... MORE!" We practiced our math facts throughout the week on our xtramath.org accounts, too!

We reviewed and took our first Unit 1 math test. We did some practice questions on our slates before we took our test. There were questions about telling time, counting money, and solving number grid puzzles. I think we did really good. We took our unit 2 pre-test, too! Unit 2 starts next week! There is a new letter explaining our unit in the middle of our red home folders.

We saw a Music for Youth Concert on Wednesday! We watched kids like us playing the violin and the cello! It was really great music! Our class was a terrific audience and showed our best behavior. Did you know my sister plays the violin?

We took a spelling test today after we played double elimination Sparkle! That's a fun game we play to practice our words one last time before the test. In grammar this week we reviewed that sentences have two parts, a WHO and a WHAT, or a subject and a predicate- if you want to use their fancy names. We made sure that every sentence has a subject! We also made sure that each sentence ended with the right punctuation mark.

We took a geography quiz, too! We've been practicing the 7 continents, 5 oceans, and our 4 homes. I think we did really good on this quiz, too!

This afternoon, Alex's mom came in for Alex's star student presentation. They did an experiment that showed hot air expands and cold air shrinks. He put a a bottle with a balloon on top in hot and cold water. The hot water made the balloon grow, and the cold air made the balloon shrink!
 They read a story to us called "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs." Then we shared why he is a star!

Boy are we smart 2nd graders!
Have a great weekend!
See you on the blog!
Danny