Calling all volunteers!!!!! We want to show you how much we appreciate you and everything you have done! Join us Thursday, March 31, 2016 from 7:30-8:30 AM for a breakfast in your honor!
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Math- We have been busy working on Problem Solving and 3-digit subtraction with regrouping. The students will continue to work on strategies to improve fact fluency the week after spring break.
Reading- During shared reading and guided reading times, the students will be focusing on adjectives and adverbs and what they are modifying. Writing-In writing, we are continuing to read different version of the same fairy tale and the students write about their favorite version. The students will be writing letters to another 2nd grade student explaining their favorite version and providing reasons as to why it is their favorite. After spring break, we will be focusing on informational writing. The students will be learning how to write to explain how to do something. Social Studies/Science- .The students have been learning about the roles of the president, governor, and mayor. They are going to have use the information they have learned and provide text evidence to explain which role is most important/beneficial. After spring break, the students will begin their unit on life cycles in both plants and animals. Our room parents have been working very hard to create a wonderful holiday party. The students will be visiting each second grade classroom to participate in fun snow themed activity. The holiday party is Friday, December 18th from 8:30-9:30. All parents are welcome to attend the party, but please do not bring preschool siblings.
Many students LOVED the Hour of Code that we did last Friday. If your student wants to continue coding at home, here's the website: Hour of Code The students also had a blast creating a sled using the materials and constraints we provided them. We were all pleased with how well the students worked together and listen to their group members' ideas before create a collaborative sled. Thank you so much for all those who donated items for this activity. Upcoming Standards: Reading: Our shared reading mini-lessons will focus on using apostrophes correctly with a focus on contractions Writing: The students are continuing to finalize and type their pages for their informational books. We look to having the parents come in and having the students share their books. We will be sending home invitations once we have a date set in stone. Math: We will be focusing on addition strategies to help the students become more fluent with their addition facts. The strategies we will be using are making ten, doubles, and doubles plus one. This should help prevent the students from as many careless mistakes when we move into addition with regrouping. Social Studies: We will be learning about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his contributions. The students will be completing a rotation each day with a specific task that needs to be completed. This will require the students to take more responsibility for their learning and do so in a fun way. Science Night- Thursday November 5th @ 6pm VETERAN'S DAY LUNCH- Thursday, November 12th! Lunch Times: Black- 11:32-12:12 Fisher- 11:38-12:18 Greenwald- 11:44-12:24 Handley- 11:50-12:30 Orff- 11:56-12:36 Math- We will continue mastering our addition strategies this week. We want to be proficient so that when we use these strategies for subtraction, they come easy to us!
Reading- We will be reading and listening to non-fiction books. We will see how the author presents the information to us in an interesting way. Then we will use what we have learned to write our own non-fiction pieces. Writing- This week in writing we will be selecting a non-fiction topic to write about. We will brainstorm ideas in order to determine what makes a non-fiction book interesting. We will begin organizing our topics and practicing note taking so that we don't plagiarize. Social Studies- Tomochichi is our final famous person we will be learning about for the second quarter. The students will have fun seeing how all three of these famous people (Mary Musgrove, James Oglethorpe, and Tomochichi) worked together to make Georgia what it is today. Math- This week the students will be learning about some fun strategies to solve double digit addition problems. These strategies include things like 100's chart, place value, open number line, and base ten blocks. The strategies taught will help the students to understand math on a conceptual level which will make them deeper, strategic thinkers.
Reading- During shared reading and guided reading times, the students will be focusing on the 5 W's of a fiction text (who, what, where, when, why, how) as well as text features of a non-fiction book. Writing- Writing time this week will be dedicated to teaching the students how to answer constructed response questions. They will use the skills they learn to answer a questions about a non-fiction reading passage, while finding specific details in the passage to support their answer. This is a great skill for them to learn as they will be tested on it for years to come. Social Studies- Mary Musgrove is the famous person of the week! The students will read, take notes, and tell stories all about Musgrove. By Friday, they will have enough knowledge to take a test on her which will focus on her contributions to Georgia as well as her character traits. This is a friendly reminder: Our PTA second grade performance will be this upcoming Tuesday night at 6:30 pm. Please return the slip stating whether your child will be attending this performance. The fall festival will be this upcoming Friday from 5-7 pm. Don't forget to turn in the fall festival form if you are interested in attending. Math- The students will be doing many hands on activities to have an understanding of graphs. They will learn how to conduct a survey, tally up totals, and create their own graph. They will acquire knowledge of what the x-axis, y-axis, and graph title means and apply this knowledge to their own graph.
Reading- This week the students will focus on what collective nouns are and how they are used in reading and writing. They will also become experts in the 5 w's (who, what, where, when, why, and how) when reading independently. Writing- The students are so excited that they get to have their very own "small moments" recording sheets where they are able to jot down small moments in the world around them for future writing topics. They will continue to make their small moment a memorable narrative. Students will also be learning how to zoom into the details of their story to make them more exciting! Please encourage creative writing at home! Science-Last week the students learned all about the differences between solids, liquids, and gases. This week the students will have a blast understanding how one form of matter can change into another. They will be experiencing this through hands-on science experiments. We will also be having our annual "Matter Day" on Friday where the whole day is dedicated to experimenting with matter!! :-) MATH- This week we will continue to work on problem solving. Last week we discussed different word problems that are "joining" word problems. This week we will focus on "separate" word problems. The kids had fun acting out the word problems from last week so they could have a visual of what the problems were asking!
READING- The students really enjoyed Mountain Language last week where they were able to apply their knowledge of language arts. This week the students will be completing Mountain Language independently. There will be a spelling test this Friday before the break! Lastly, we will have lots of discussions on character traits, specifically for the famous Cherokee Native American named Sequoyah. WRITING- This week is all about editing/revising! The students will learn what it takes to make their current piece of writing the best it possibly can be. We will discuss/apply the revision acronym ARMS (Add, Revise, Move, Substitute) and the editing acronym CUPS (Capitalization, Understanding, Punctuation, Spelling). SOCIAL STUDIES- As stated in the Reading section, the students will be learning all about the famous Cherokee Native American, Sequoyah. The students will learn what he is famous for as well his character traits. Math- This week we will focus most of our time on problem solving. We begin our problem solving unit with solving addition and/or subtraction word problems within 20. Throughout the year we will expand upon our problem solving skills and challenge our thinking more. As a second grade, we all follow the same problem solving steps.
Reading-Between this week and next, we will begin our small groups for guided reading where the students will work on reading skills aimed just for them. In addition to this, we will be learning about folktales focusing specifically on the "message" or "moral" of the tale. Social Studies- This is an exciting week as we will have our in school field trip to experience many of the traditions that the Creek and Cherokee had. This hands-on experience will enlighten the students and make the standard less abstract! Writing- During writing time we will be introducing "Mountain Language" which will help to build the students' English skills, many of which relate to our standards. The idea behind this is that they will become better readers and writers of the English language. Also, we will continue our discussions on prefixes. Wow! It is hard to believe that we are in our fourth week of school. The students in each classroom are acclimating to their new environments and succeeding academically already.
*The students are very excited that our 2nd grade store will open up this FRIDAY! Here is what you can expect for our upcoming week. Math- This week we will be focusing on comparing numbers by considering what numbers are in the ones, tens, and hundreds place values. Students will have the opportunity to compete in fun ordering games as well as receive small group instruction to meet their individual needs. We will also begin practicing our knowledge of skip counting by 1's, 5's and 10's, which will eventually relate to money (pennies, nickels and dimes). Reading- We will continue to build reading stamina this week and figuring out what the individual reading needs of the students are. The students will also be deciding the meaning words based on their knowledge of compound words. For example, "skateboard" is a board that one would use to skate on. We will continue our conversations about how the beginning of the story eventually leads to the end or resolution of a story. We will focus on key elements to support this like characters and the roles they play to effect a story line. Writing- Students will be considering their knowledge of adjectives and applying it to their writing in order to make it better and more interesting to read. They will apply the skills they learn in mini lessons about adjectives, to their personal narratives that they have been working so hard on. They will get to see first hand how much more interesting their writing will become. Social Studies-Last week we began instruction on the Regions of Georgia. This week we will master our understanding of the characteristics of these regions and also apply our cardinal direction knowledge in order to explain in words the locations on a map. For example, students will understand that the most North Western region in Georgia is called The Appalachian Plateau and that this region is considered high, flat lands. Their knowledge of these regions will be assessed by the end of the week. Math- This week we are continuing with our understanding of how to write a three digit number in different ways using Number Word, Base Ten Blocks, Place Value, and Expanded Form. We will be using these ideas to order numbers from least to greatest.
Reading-This week in reading we are focusing on continuing to build our independent reading stamina. While we are reading we want to think about how the beginning of the story, leads to the middle and then finally the result or ending of the story happens (fiction books). Writing-During writing we will use the beginning, middle, and end reading skills we worked on and apply them to our narrative writing pieces. We also will be making our "hooks" or "bold beginnings" to our stories so that the reader is excited about what we have to say. Social Studies-We will begin mapping out the regions and rivers of Georgia this week! This will lead into our Creek and Cherokee Unit where the students will understand why certain Native American tribes lived in certain regions and near rivers. |
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