Mrs. Pettibone's 2nd Grade Class: Tuesday, November 1st

Today is the first day of November! I cannot believe how fast the year has gone so far.

This mornings devotion was about the 8th commandment: You shall not steal. We discussed that stealing is not just physical items but it can be stealing of time. We gave the example of school. When we are learning and we talk we are stealing our learning time. That can lead into some of our fun time! When we work hard and use our time wisely we are often rewarded with fun time in class.

In phonics, the children wrote their spelling words and marked them according to if they are voiced or voiceless. Voiced have a ~ line underneath and a voiceless has a - line underneath.

Today in math we continued working on our 2 digit addition. I introduced the students to another way to add 2 digits. They could start from the left and add the tens then add the ones to get to the number. Example:

Many of the children prefer the normal way of starting in the ones place, regrouping if necessary and then adding the tens. Either way is fine with me. It is just a different approach that may help some students!

During reading we once again read with a partner. Some friends got to read in groups of 3 because we have an odd number. They all read, Farfallina and Marcel.

After we talked about the different ways to make the Long I sound. It can be spelled with an i, ie, igh, or y. Then we discussed our vocabulary words from the story.

The children had gym today and they are learning volleyball concepts.

For handwriting we had the uppercase C. We have 3 friends in our class that have last names that begin with the letter C. Check out our top 2 handwriting friends today!

We are going back to science now. We are learning about Habitats. We read about different places plants and animals live. Then we did our class outline and watched The Magic School Bus.