January 6 in room 11

• The spelling pattern for this week is -ai, -ay words. Students practiced these words this morning.
• The reading skill for this week is to identify the main idea for the story and pick out supporting details. Second graders worked with a partner to find the details in A Trip to the Firehouse."
• After listening to the read-aloud "The Snowman Storybook," students used chalk on paper to create their own snowman.
• Mr. Dunn brought different types of stuffed shore birds to Science class. He demonstrated different types of beaks and feet and showed how birds used these "tools" to move and find food. Students studied birds close-up and wrote their own observations.
• Everyone enjoyed the math lesson--cutting and pasting groups of hundreds, tens and ones onto correct boxes. Plugged nozzles, a short supply of scissors, and bursting glue bottles added to the afternoon's pleasures.
• In Health, students again got to cut and paste. This time they matched healthy habit pictures to a correct sentence.