2nd grade Math
My students have been working extremely hard with money this week. They have been counting coins, counting on, making change and working on word problems. We will have our chapter test on Friday and we will begin our next chapter on Time after the IOWA exams.
1st grade Reading
This week we started Unit 8 of our Wilson program. The students learned the difference between a digraph and a blend. They both have two letters but a digraph makes one sound and a blend makes two sounds. Some examples are: -st, -cr, -cl.
Trick words for this week have been: want, could, some, say
Afternoon Math
This week in Math we have been concentrating on addtion. We have been using a variety of different strategies including: counting on, touch math, using counting cubes and drawing pictures. The boys have been doing very well in Math and they have been working very hard!
2nd grade Spelling
There will not be a spelling test next week due to IOWA testing.
