Hey everyone! It has been a super-short school week (read: 2.5 days), but I have been super busy... Read today's Five for Friday to find out why!
We came back from Spring Break, taught for two weeks and then had our spring conferences. We only had a 2.5 day work week and then got five days off of school. Not bad, right? Silly me thought I had to squish a whole week of learning in those two and a half days though.
My kids were real troopers though and we got through it. Worked until 7:30 on Wednesday night, but got off at 11:00 on Thursday and don't go back until Tuesday...after report cards and conferences I am happy for the days off.
Conferences went really well though -- I have really great families and I am ready to stuff as much learning as I can in these last eight weeks!
If you follow me on Instagram (bittybilinguals) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BittyBilinguals) you have probably already seen this pic, but it was how we started the week. The kids studied different types of rocks and we came up with a list of adjectives that describe rocks. This was a totally kid created list... I love, love "cementosa." The student totally used what he knew of adjectives and tried to turn a noun into an adjective. Alas it didn't make the final poster.
We use University of Chicago's Everyday Math program and we were finishing up unit 7 this week. We learned about median and mode by graphing the data of our long jumps. We went to the hallway for this activity. After we recorded their jumps, the kids wrote their longest jump on the back of their paper. They then put themselves in order from shortest jump to longest jump. To demonstrate median, the kids sat down, one from the beginning of the line and one from the end of the line, at a time. By the time we took the end of the unit test on Wednesday, the kiddos were pros!
Each year the second grade team gets together and the kids make pointillism pictures. We split all of the second graders into four groups (rainbows, flowers, suns, and kites) and they work with one of the teachers to create a painting using pointillism. I was in charge of rainbows. I am so proud of how these came out. We just used Q-Tips and paint to fill in a shape (the kids traced from a template ahead of time). I told my group that they picked the coolest of all the designs, but the hardest too. After a couple of rows their hands are going to hurt and they are going to want to start 'brushing,' but it only looks cool if they keep on making dots... haha, they just rocked them.
The kids then paired their paintings with an acrostic poem using 'spring.' In a bilingual classroom we have all levels of English, so the poems ranged from single words to full sentences, but I think the whole class brainstorming really helped support all of the kiddos.
I have been trying to revamp my Teachers Pay Teachers Store (graciefacelearning) and a lot of my older products. Last weekend I tackled all of my Gira y haga una gráfica (Spin and Make a Graph) packs. They went from this to this...
I am so proud of these little packs. I am planning to put them at our math stations this week to help with graphing skills. I would think that a lot of my students would have how to make a graph down at this point of second grade, but there were a few that surprised me at this last test, so I think these are needed.
There are a variety of topics to choose from:
I am so excited! I also decided to bundle all of these for 20% off!
My plan is to work on revamping the English versions this weekend, so stay tuned!
Phew that is it for my "short" week! Go on over to Doodle Bugs to see others' Five for Friday!