Monday, November 26th

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break.  I know mine was filled with celebration after celebration!  This morning we reactivated our brains and wrote everything we could about plants.  We will be studying plants in literacy and science.  It was great to find out what we already know about plants so we can add to that knowledge in second grade!  Then, we talked about words with -eer and -ear.  The toughest words on our spelling list were reindeer, pioneers, and country.  Study those at home!  We will be taking our Spelling test on THURSDAY this week, as we are attending a ballet on Friday and won't have enough time.  We completed a spelling activity in class.  We also completed our DLP, talked about informational paragraphs and the days of the week.  We prepared our Book Bags for this week, too.  In Social Studies, we started a new unit.  We will be talking a lot about income, goods and services.  We read about making predictions and cut apart vocabulary cards.  A sheet went home today will all the vocabulary words for you to help study at home.  I am predicting that we will take a test before the holiday break.  After lunch, we took our Reading MAP test again.  We will compare the results to the first test and alter our instruction accordingly for each student.  Next week we will take the Math MAP test.  When we were finished, we worked on some map skills using a map key.  We also watched a video clip on plants, parts of plants, and saw how they make food.