December 10, 2018
Brrrr, it’s really cold
outside! Please make sure your child’s name is written inside ALL of
their snow gear. Many of our items are getting mixed up and take a while
to find their proper owner without being properly labeled. Listed below
are a few important reminders to take into consideration…
Thursday, December 13th
is Parent/Teacher Conferences from 12-8 pm. Please remember that it is
also a half day with dismissal at 11:00 am.
Our Holiday Party will be on
Friday, December 18th from 9:30-10:15. Look for updates and a Signup Genius from our Holiday Party Planning parent, Erin Roosen.
A great deal of learning has
taken place since our last blog post. Here’s what our amazing second
graders have been up to…
Reader’s Workshop:
We’re digging deeper with our
comprehension strategies as readers. Here are some of our Learning
Targets:
- · I can visualize part of to the story as I read.
- · I can infer to better understand the Author’s Message.
- · I can make connections to the story as I read.
- · I can summarize the story that I’ve read.
- · I can identify my characters wants, needs, or problems.
- · I can ask thick and thin questions about a story that I am reading.
- · I can build an understanding of who the characters are in the books I read.
- · I can make predictions about what will happen to the character as I read.
- · I can confirm or revise my predictions about the character.
- · I can keep track of my characters wants, needs, actions, or feelings.
Writer’s Workshop:
We took a break from our
Realistic Fiction Unit for a few days in order to create our Thankful Turkey
Bag Books. I hope you enjoyed reading everything that our second graders
are thankful for!
This week we put the
finishing touches on our second realistic fiction piece. We used many of
Judith Viorst’s books as our mentor texts for inspiration for our second
realistic fiction piece such as: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day, Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday,
Alexander, Who's Not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move, and Alexander, Who's Trying to be the Best Boy Ever. Look for
this writing piece to be graded and sent home with your child in the next few
weeks. Some of our Leaning Targets included:
- · I can use graphic organizers to plan a story with a problem and solution.
- · I can start and end my story with an intentional circle-back idea.
- · I can use repeating lines in my story.
- · I can use juicy words in my story.
- · I can use transitional words in my story.
Word Study:
Our main focus of study has
been working on consonant clusters at the beginning and end of words.
Prefixes and suffixes were also introduced to you child. It’s awesome to see
student recognize words with consonant clusters, prefixes, and suffixes in word
that they read or write!
Math:
Our mathematicians just
finished our Unit on Subtraction Strategies and Fact Families. Their Unit
3 Assessments will come home early this week. Please make sure that you look over
their test together so to help clear up any misconceptions and celebrate all of their new learning! Some of the subtraction
strategies that were introduced to your child included:
- · Subtraction from addition
- · Fact Families
- · Counting Up
- · Counting Back
- · -0 and -1 Strategy
- · Using Doubles to Subtract
- · -10 Strategy
- · Going Up Through 10
Our next unit focuses on
time, place value and measurement.
Science:
Our botanists have finished
their New Plants Unit. Their grass, wheat, and garlic came home last
week. We transplanted the new plants that we started growing from the old
plants that you brought in. You should see how our potato plants are
growing! We’re going to take a short break on Science in order to
concentrate on Social Studies. Our focus will be on Communities.
