What are we learning?

Math
Both grades

• Continued to work on story problems and coming up with strategies (addition and subtraction)
• Made class pictographs
  

1st grade

• Writing equations two different ways by switching the addends (2+3=5, 3+2=5)
• Understanding parts of a number
  

2nd grade

• Telling time to 5 minute intervals
  

Reading
1st grade

• Learned what sound and spelling went along with the following letters: /ch/ (spelled ch and _tch), /ar/ (spelled ar), /w/ (spelled w, wh_)
  
• Reviewed sh, th and short vowels
  
• Blended CVC words and words with 2 syllables
  

2nd grade

• Reviewed long i (spelled igh)
• Worked with words that have double consonants (ex: shopper)
  
• Worked with compound word (ex: saleslady)
• Worked with words that have long vowel spellings
  
• Worked with multisyllabic words with short vowels
• Worked with suffixes _ed, _er, _s
  

Science
2nd grade

• Continued learning about plants
• Drew and wrote observations of our plants
  
• Question the 2nd graders are trying to answer for our plant unit: Does the type of light a plant receives affect its growth?

History
1st grade

• Learned about the Mayan people

2nd grade

• Learned about the War of 1812