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Another crazy busy week in Room 15! We started the week with a reminder to be so thankful for our freedoms. The second grade students did a marvelous job singing and sharing poetry about Memorial Day at our community meeting! Be sure to take a moment to be thankful on May 27th! Later that day we had some fun reviewing polygon with Mr. Tinker - we programmed our new robots to pace out a square, rectangle and trapezoid based on clues given by Mr. Tinker. I think we have some future technology gurus in our class! In Math, we continue to work on decimals. We spent the beginning of the week reviewing how to divide decimals and ended with a review of decimals with all 4 operations! Good work by all! We will review the metric system next week in preparation for our Math MCAS on Thursday and Friday, May 16th and 17th. If you would like to send another note of encouragement in, please do so - this is such a great way for students to start the days of testing! In Reading, we are knee-deep in our fantasy unit. Tomorrow students will have their first discussion groups, I have loved listening to their connections so far and know they are really thinking about the setting and the power in their novels. They have been asked to think of which characters have the power, is it a good power or one used for evil. We continue to use The Thief of Always as our mentor text, I use this text to model this and then have students focus the strategy in their independent reading. We are also almost half-way through The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. Be sure to ask your child what they think about Coyote riding across country in a bus with a guy (her dad) named Rodeo. It is a heartwarming story with lots of twists and turns! In Science, we are becoming experts on all things Animals! This week we focused on Ecosystems and Biomes. We used a wonderful digital literacy program to research interesting facts about 6 different biomes and also shade in areas of the world where the different biomes are found. They have chosen their vertebrate and are researching classification and the ecosystems in which they live. Lots of great discussions as we talk about the differences in food chains and how predators and prey affect these chains. Next week our focus will be on what impacts an ecosystem, proud of their efforts! Next week we have the MATH MCAS on Thursday and Friday. Students have been working hard as we review all we have learned thus far! As always it will be important to have students well rested during the testing period - so there will not be any homework next week except to work on their Vertebrate project. Thank you as always for your constant support. Teacher Appreciation Week at Cole School was completely overwhelming, I feel so lucky to work in such a supportive environment! Have a wonderful weekend! Maura Important Dates to Remember:
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