Explain Everything, Persuasive Writing and Perimeter!

Reminder: This Thursday April 20th is our GRADE 2 CELEBRATION OF LEARNING from 6pm-7pm. We are so excited to share our learning with you!

Today we practiced telling our story orally and using the Explain Everything Application so that we can be experts and share our story both orally around the fire and on Explain Everything

Charlotte's Web: Chapter 7: Bad News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhiBT2MHpwA

We learned 3 Synonyms for Hated:

Loathed...Disliked...Detested...

Sometimes when we want to make our writing more exciting we can find a different word that means the same thing but is much "juicier"!!

Thesaurus.com will help you do this! 

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/

We also learned about PERSUASIVE WRITING. We had to write a letter to Mr. Zuckerman to persuade him not to kill Wilbur. Ask me what my reasons were. 

We also talked about what Persuasive Writing is and what it is used for:

Math

Today in math we came up with rules for a triangle. We also practiced drawing a triangle using rulers. We also learned a new measurement vocabulary word called PERIMETER. Ask me how I can figure out the perimeter of a square or a triangle?