We finally learned how to do the "old fashion" way to do addition. Keep in mind that we use different terminology when adding. Instead of saying "carry the one", we now say "regroup one into the tens."
We are finishing up our Earth systems unit in science. We will be moving on to working on the UNLESS contest for the zoo. If you are interested to learn more about the contest you can go to this link...Philadelphia Zoo UNLESS contest
You may recognize someone in the video. Last year, our second grade class came in 2nd place in our category.
We read a book this week called The Ugly Pumpkin. The book is about a pumpkin that looked different from the other pumpkins and was left out. It turns out in the end that he is actually a squash and is welcomed by the other squash. We wrote about a time when we felt squashed and then designed our own ugly pumpkins.
