The weather was perfect for our Fun Run last Friday afteroon! The
sun was out and we had some wonderful parents cheering us on! Everyone was
pumped up and excited to move their feet around the track. Thank you for all
your Fun Run donations! Look for some Fun Run pictures and video on our blog in the near
future. On an exciting note, we were the second grade class that had the most donations and won a PIZZA PARTY for Friday, October 19th!!
We are nearing the end of Unit 2. This week our mathematicians practiced making fact families using dominoes and fact triangles. A set of fact triangles came home with your child earlier this week. Please make sure that you keep them in a special place and practice them with your child. We spent significant time on frames-and-arrows, addition and subtraction number stories, function machines and some counting strategies for subtraction. Students also learned a new math game called Name That Number. A practice packet came home with your child on Friday to help prepare for their first Math Benchmark Assessment on Monday, October 29th. Please make sure you are completing the study guide at home.
In Word Study this week we have taken a look at forming possessives in words. Second graders learned that to show ownership of something, you add ‘s to a word. Then we worked with words with double consonants. Students worked on identifying two-syllable words with double consonants in the middle (lad/der, muf/fin). Children sorted word parts to create their own two-syllable words! Last, we learned about forming past tense in words by adding –ed or –d to the end of words.
In Reader’s Workshop this week, each child set reading goals for themselves. Time was spent talking with each child about their goal and the importance of setting goals for their reading. Ask your child the two reading goals that they set for themselves. Each marking period, your child will set two new reading goals. Students also went book shopping for the first time. While doing our shopping, we stopped to talk about how to pick “just right” books when browsing books. We talked about how everyone has a book that fits perfectly to their needs as a reader and likened it to having a pair of shoes that fits you perfectly. Ava and Mrs. Brown tried on each other’s shoes to demonstrate. Needless to say…Ava’s shoes weren’t “just right” for Mrs. Brown! We talked about talked about being able to abandon books that are too easy or too hard for us.They also learned about the “FIVE FINGER RULE” and how to choose their books carefully. Please ask your child to demonstrate the “FIVE FINGER RULE” at home.
This week as writer’s we spent more time with our mentor text, Owl Moon. After familiarizing ourselves with the language in the story (similes, onomatopoeias, alliteration and repetitive language) we pulled out phrases from the piece that appeared to contain poetic language. As a class we took these individual phrases and put them up on sentence strips. We then spent time creating a poem as a whole class that re-arranged the phrases from the text as well as created a new mini-story. Next, our poets spent time with partners taking the sentence strips of phrases and playing once more with the order to create their very own poems. Students also became “juicy word” detectives as they listened to and read stories. One example was when they listened to the story, Pumpkin Eye. They learned about nouns and adjectives and how to use them to jazz up their writing. We learned how to write list poems and wrote a list poem together as class entitles “Fabulous Fall”. They also tried adding similes to their own poetry.
This week was spent focused on “Needs and Wants”. We talked about the definitions of each word, read the book, But I Want It, and created a giant list of needs and wants. We spent time looking specifically at our needs as the four main things we need to survive: food, water, shelter and clothing.
Important News/Reminders
· Friday, October 12th – Memory Collection Notebook photos and index cards DUE ! If you haven’t returned it to school, please do so ASAP.
· Monday, October 29th - Math Benchmark Assessment
· Wednesday, October 31th – The Halloween parade starts at 2:30 and the party will follow.
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