The Explorers Mrs. Lipar Grades 1 and 2 We are in full swing in 2018 as January and February were busy for our class. In March we continue to strengthen our skills in all areas of learning. In reading-writing workshop the class focused on making connections, expository text, personal narrative and word study. We are working toward the editing process and publishing our work. It is nice to see so many of the kids sharing their writing in our Author’s Chair. We celebrated Mark Teague and Beverly Cleary in our author studies. Next month we will write expository and informational text. Our STEAM challenges were fun and exciting. Students used index cards to create a tower to hold specific weight and built a foil boat to hold 100g. The designs were creative and challenging. Some of the groups gained knowledge on how to redesign to gain better results in their challenges. We studied and experimented with the effects of water and wind on land with respect to weathering, erosion and deposition. In our experiments we studied land changes by simulated weathering, erosion and deposition. We created volcanoes and looked at the ways in which lava forms to make changes in our Earth as it cools and repeats. The class plotted the volcanoes of the world using coordinates on a map. They had to locate and compare them with surrounding volcanoes in that region. Our rock investigation and study of the rock cycle covered the three types of rocks, where they can be found and how they are formed. We will build on this in the upcoming weeks along with the study of maps and geography. In our math workshop we practiced addition and subtraction, comparing numbers, place value, comparing and rounding, fractions, time and money, and data analysis with probability. We played games, used manipulatives and practiced math facts. The areas of focus were: adding and subtracting two and three digit numbers, labeling and expanding numbers to strengthen our understanding of place value, using rulers, yardsticks and measuring tape to measure items to the nearest foot, inch and centimeter, rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand using number 9
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