Second graders have loved the addition of our "POWER MATH" block in the morning! We've successfully transitioned to base 10 blocks (from unifix cubes) and are becoming confident with place value! Representing numbers concretely with base 10 blocks helps us understand numbers. As we practice our skills we gain confidence and a common understanding about how numbers work...number sense!! We even went from ones, to tens, to hundreds today! Yay! Tomorrow we "build" some numbers to the hundreds place... and really see, touch, and understand tens, ones and more!
Owen did a super job as Meeting Helper (we sure liked the "cool dude" greeting!!) as well as math meeting helper...busy day, Owen!! tomorrow we begin our "math minutes" along with our math warm up! Next week, we begin a unit on time and telling time on both analog (the old fashioned way...) and digital clocks.
Writing workshop has been busy as many writers work to edit their "courage-writing" for the newspaper. As always we practice doing what "good writers do"... rereading and paying attention to the main idea in our stories.... while adding juicy details, of course! It's pretty busy in second grade these days... and that's the way we like it!
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