May 31, 2013

This week we spent a lot of time completing our finishing touches for our International Fair. We worked on our welcome sign, we created stickers for our passports and we practiced sharing our information with each other so that we are prepared when people visit our countries. At the beginning of next week we will be preparing our international dishes to share with our guests. Thank you to Beth M. and Dalia W. for cooking and thank you to Ali G. for doing all of the shopping!!

In math we worked on our multiplication facts. Everyone was successful in finding the answers as they used repeated addition. We also learned and shared other strategies. For example, if you know what 5x5 is then you can figure out what 5x7 is because you only need to add two more fives.

In planting this week we learned about all of the parts of a flower. We labeled diagrams and then we played matching games with vocabulary cards. Last, we dissected an actual flower and labeled the parts.

For Torah this week week we read the story of Pharaoh's Dream and we discussed how these dreams helped to save the lives of many people. Then, we shared about our own dreams and tried to interpret them.

Shabbat Shalom,

Hamorah Caren

Reminder:  the grade 2 International Fair is Wednesday, June 5th from 8:30-9:15.