What we will be learning during the week of January 31st - February 4th

Language Arts: This week will be learning about dinosaurs by reading various non-fiction articles such as National Geographic for Kids. We will also enjoy reading some fun fiction books about dinosaurs as well. If your child has any books or info. on dinosaurs they would like to share with the class, they are welcome to bring it! We will also complete our second TAKS practice test on Wednesday together as a class. We are also working on developing reading strategies on these practice stories that will help prepare us for next year in 3rd grade!

Math: This week we will continue working on two-digit subtraction with regrouping. I am very proud of their hard work last week as we learned the steps and why we need to regroup on these types of math problems! This week we will keep practicing those strategies and play some math games to review our skills with regrouping. Please continue to work with this concept over the next few weeks at home as we work in class. www.funbrain.com (math baseball) is a great fun website to practice those facts!

Science: This week in science we will continue learning about the water cycle! Look forward to hearing all about the water cycle this week with a catchy song!

Social Studies: This week we will continue our unit with Economics by looking at "consumer" and "producers." Last week our "Power to the Flower" pen factory produced 585 pens - Wow!!!! Friendly reminder: Your child's Flower Pen orders and money are due no later than this coming Thursday morning so that we can make sure our supplies are ready for our last Friday Factory. Please let me know if you would like to come help in our "Power to the Flower Factory" on Friday.....we would love to have you!

Here are a few photos of last week's factory - enjoy!