Holiday Fun

Here are a few fun pictures from our holiday party:

 

The students also made ornaments as gifts to send home to their families. Using an ornament and white paint, they put their hand print around the ornament. Each of their fingers were turned into snowmen that they decorated themselves. We can thank another Second Grade teacher, Mrs. R, for the great craft idea.

 

Here are some of the finished products:

 

 

Opinion Writing

The students filled up their 'Warm Fuzzy Jar' by earning compliments from other teachers and by working well with their classmates. Once filled, they used a program on their iPads called Edmodo to vote for their reward. Not only did they vote, they also had write why they thought that reward would be the best, so they had to persuade me with their opinions. Here are some of the students working on their opinion writing:

Winter Problem Solving

Before Winter Break, students worked vigorously on Problem Solving. One strategy they use to solve 2 digit by 2 digit addition/subtraction is the Empty Number Line. The number line allows students to visualize their thinking. For example, when adding 32+24, students will mark 32 as the starting point on their number line. They will then look at the number 24 and decide how many tens and ones they will need to jump to get the sum of the two numbers. The number 24 has 2 tens, so from 32 we would jump 2 'big ten jumps' to get to 52. From the 52, we would jump 4 'tiny 1 jumps' to get to the answer of 56.

Here is an example of a subtraction story problem that was solved using the empty number line:

 

In a subtraction problem, students must jump back instead of forward on the empty number line. I made a laminated sentence strip and drew an empty number line on it for the students. They use their dry erase markers to solve their problems.