As we depart for a two week winter break, I would like to wish you and your families all the joys and blessings of the season! Enjoy this time together, and may the new year bring you much love and happiness! See you in 2015!!!
Due to the field trip and holiday activities this week, I was only able to see my second graders for a short period of time on Tuesday to administer their graphing post assessment. I look forward to working with them more in the new year and am proud of their efforts and accomplishments thus far.
As we depart for a two week winter break, I would like to wish you and your families all the joys and blessings of the season! Enjoy this time together, and may the new year bring you much love and happiness! See you in 2015!!!
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This week we completed our Weather Detectives unit by solving 4 different puzzles which helped us to eliminate suspects and identify the culprit who stole McGee's Weather Company data! Weather Detectives folders should have come home with your child which contained a variety of the activities they completed throughout the unit. We are Great at Graphing!Our math focus this week was on graphing. On Tuesday, we began by discussing the two types of graphs we would focus on (bar graphs and pictographs). We identified and labeled important parts of each graph, then practiced taking data and filling in some missing pieces on graphs. Next, we gathered data from a fictitious survey about zoo exhibits and began creating a bar graph and pictograph to display the data.
On Friday, we will finish our graphs from the zoo survey and then complete a holiday glyph. Students will decorate a stocking following a special key. Once the stocking is decorated, it will tell information about them (their favorite holiday song, their favorite holiday character, and if they think they are on Santa's naughty or nice list). Students will then display their stockings, interpret and gather the data, and create a graph to display the results. We are on the case as we continue to solve the mystery of who stole weather data from McGee's Weather Company! This week in our weather detecting, we read the profiles of three more people and charted key information that made them prime suspects. Students then completed a logic puzzle in order to eliminate one suspect from the suspect list! I am so proud of how carefully the students used the clues to identify when each suspect was or was not seen by the security guards of McGee's Weather Company. They used information to determine what did, and did not, happen and carefully deduced which suspect could be eliminated from the suspect board!
This has been a wonderful week back with second grade! I am so excited to be back in the swing of things with the students. This week we explored rounding two and three digit numbers to the nearest ten. We began by determining that half of ten is five and used this understanding to find the "middle man" - or number that is half way between the tens - on a number line (ex: the "middle man" between 30 and 40 is 35). Next, we established that numbers that are less than the "middle man" would round down and numbers equal to or greater than the "middle man" would round up. We then practiced establishing the two tens a number came between, determined the "middle man", compared the number to the "middle man" and identified what ten the number rounded to. We wrapped up our lesson with a spirited game of "Round Away." Great job rounding second graders! I've attached the template for "Round Away" below so you can play at home! ![]()
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