Some students have been practicing our spelling words using the website spellingcity.com.  Well, things just got easier!  Mrs. Swavely (a 2nd grade teacher at Brecknock) typed all the words for the entire year!  Now all you have to do is click on the list that matches with our week.  Scroll down to find Unit 1 and our story for this week is “A Walk in the Desert”.  Then start playing games and practicing your spelling words.  Bookmark this link or click my Spelling tab at the top to find it next time you want to play.

https://www.spellingcity.com/Brecknock2/

We are learning all about Place Value in math.  We are learning that numbers can be represented in different forms.

Standard form= 125

Written form= one hundred twenty-five

Expanded form= 100 + 20 + 5

Block form= drawing or showing 1 hundred block, 2 tens sticks, and 5 ones cubes

Today I introduced the concept of expanded form.  Check out this video that I showed in class.

The kids seemed to pick up quickly on the idea of stretching a number like a slinky and we even made our own folded paper examples.

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