Monday, May 3, 2010

Week of May 3

Here's is our week at a glance. We have a Field Trip scheduled for Friday to the Science Center of Pinellas County and we will attend Stone Soup and Dragon Dumplings by the Eckerd Theatre Company in the Janet Root Theatre on Tuesday afternoon. Please continue to encourage your child to read, write and practice the addition and subtraction math facts.

Parent Reader (Friday morning) - Mrs. Peffly

Current Events - Open share this week

Language Arts
Spelling - bought, ought, brought, though, dough, thought, fought, friend, our, through, threw, there, their, they're
High Frequency Words - finally, guess, half, hundred, idea, imagine, impossible, interesting, knee, laughed, learn, lose, million, minute, picture, police, popular
Robust Vocabulary - absolutely, collection, common, durable, halfheartedly, identify, last, rare, separated, settled
Story of the Week - "Let's Go Rock Collecting" by Roma Gans; "Pebbles" by Valerie Worth (Poetry)
Fluency - Phrasing
Comprehension - Making Inferences; Monitor Comprehension: reread
Vocabulary - Multiple-Meaning Words
Grammar - Helping Verbs
Writing - Poetry

Mathematics - Unit 10 - Decimals and Place Value
* Money Amounts with the calculator
* Using a calculator to solve problems with money
* Estimating and finding exact costs
* Making Change

Science
* Simple Machines
* A field trip to the Science Center of Pinellas County and lessons about Plants and Matter

Social Studies
* Africa

The students did a fabulous job creating posters about people in their chosen Asian country. They also did an amazing job presenting this information in front of their classmates. Their confidence has definately grown this year with regard to speaking infront of an audience. Congratulations, Second Grade!

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