As you remember, last week we were learning about buildings. We wrapped up our learning on different buildings and the materials they are made out of with a fun art project! Each student got to choose one building they wanted to focus on. They each drew their building first and then labeled the materials that it is made out of. Finally, they got to paint it! It was so much fun! There was a great variety of buildings from a house, to a school, to even the Eiffel Tower!
Eiffel Tower - metal
School- brick, glass, concrete
Leaning Tower of Pisa- Marble
Now that we are done learning about buildings we have begun learning about communities in nature. Animals live in a community too! The place where they live is a habitat. In science we have already been studying how animals survive different environments so we are able to make lots of connections! For the next few weeks our science lessons will be focusing on how animals survive a cold environment. To get us started we wrote about our favorite animal that lives in the snow or ice. Don't worry, we didn't forget to tell why!
"Dear Class, my favorite animal that lives in the snow or ice is a penguin because it slides into the water."
"My favorite animal that lives in snow is a snow owl and they have heart on their face."
A few weeks ago we learned about different ways to pronounce the -ed endings. EVERYTIME a kid finds a word with -ed at the end they get SO excited and always rush over to show it to me. So this week, we introduced the -ing ending. Now whenever someone finds an -ing word we now have a place to record it!
In math this week we have been continuing with learning about the relationship between addition and subtraction. One game that we play in class is choosing three numbers and then finding all the related facts that contain those numbers. For example: 2, 5, 7. The related facts with these numbers are 2+5=7, 5+2=7, 7-2=5, 7-5=2. The kids are really great at it! And this is even a game that you can easily play at home. You can make it MORE challenging by having your child choose the three numbers themselves, and then see if they can make related facts with them.
There have been a couple of changes to our classroom this week. For starters, we have instituted the pencil challenge! I numbered a set of pencils. One pencil for each student. Each student has a designated number and therefore a designated pencil. Every morning the class takes their pencil from the challenge cup and at the end of the day returns it. The challenge is... Who can keep their pencil the longest without losing it! The final winner will get a totally awesome prize!
This week we also rearranged the desks in our classroom. We were ready for a change! Most of the kids now sit in groups of three. Now that we have learned to effectively communicate to our partners we are going to focus on becoming effective communicators within a group of three!
In other news, the PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) was offered free space at the Joann Williams 32nd Annual Christmas Fair at the King Kamehameha Hotel. They will be selling trucker hats and some baked goods. If you would like to help supervise the booth or donate baked goods, please let our Vice Principal Janice Blaber know. Her direct number is 895-6671. The dates for the event are Friday, November 28th and Saturday, November 29th. Supervision times run for 3 hours a piece (i.e. 9am-12pm, 12pm-3pm) for each day.
Finally, a great big mahalo to the Ahuna family for donating paper grocery bags for our special Thanksgiving project! We are still collecting bags until Nov 25th (or until we have a complete class set).
We all had a fun-filled week of learning this week in P2. Hope your kids enjoy a well deserved, restful weekend!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Kawai
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