What did we learn this week?

Math
Both grades

• Continued to work on story problems and coming up with strategies (addition and subtraction)
• Writing numbers (1-100 for 1st grade and 1-300 for 2nd grade)

1st grade

• Geometry- Properties of plane shapes (how many sides and corners), making a new shape from other shapes (i.e. putting together 4 triangles to make a parallelogram ), ways to move a shape (slide, flip, turn), and congruence (two shapes are congruent if they are the same shape and same size)

2nd grade

• Adding 10 and 100 to a number
• Telling time to 5 minute intervals
• Finding the rule of a pattern (i.e. counting by 5's, 3's, etc)
• Counting coins
  

Reading
1st grade

• Learned what sound and spelling went along with the following letters: j (spelled ge and gi ), long e (spelled e, e_e), /y/ spelled y, /kw/ spelled qu, /ng/ spelled ng
  
• Blended CVC words and words with 2 syllables
  

2nd grade

• Reviewed long a (spelled a_e, ai)
• Reviewed long e (spelled e, ee and ea)
  
• Reviewed oy (like in boy), oi (like in boil), ou (like in cloud)
  

Writing

• Continued to work with paragraphs
• Wrote a paragraph about what we did over Thanksgiving Break
  

Science
1st grade

• Began to learn about balance and motion
• Learned about counterweights
• Learned about a stable position
• Balanced a paper crayfish on our fingers, balanced a paper arch, triangle and hand with pencil on a popsicle stick

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?

Art
1st grade

• Learned about Georgia O'Keeffe (1st graders are going to Mrs. Brown's class on Friday afternoons to learn about different artist)

2nd

• Learned about abstract art