March 12, 2012

We started off this week with our new No Excuse Words:

1. this
2. from
3. I
4. seven
5. white

In Social Studies we learned about winter holidays around the world. Some of the holidays we learned about are:

• In Canada we celebrate Christmas.  We get presents from Santa.
• In Africa they celebrate Kwanza.  They light a kinora which has 7 candles.
• In Mexico they celebrate Posadas.  They like to hit pinatas.
• In Israel they celebrate Hanukkah.  They play with dreidels.

In Math today we worked on the concept of place value.  Check out the following website to practice at home:

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/place-value-models-tens-and-ones

Have a great night!