Here is our week at a glance. On Friday, the students will share their published narratives, so please come along if you have some time. Starting time is at 8:30 in the classroom. Help us celebrate this special event.
REMINDERS:
* Parent Reader (Friday) - Mary Margaret Joswig
* Current Events - Tuesday: Lauren W, Jonathan; Wednesday: McIntosh, Brenna; Thursday: Samuel, Julia; Friday: Kendall, Abby
* Library is on Tuesday (please remind your child to bring their books to school)
* Keep helping your child practice the poems for our Second Grade Show
* October 29 - Fall Festival
* Keep sending in those Boxtops and Cash for Trash items
* I am collecting playground equipment and gardening gloves. Please think about donating any unused items you may have lying around at home for us to use at recess time
LANGUAGE ARTS
* Phonics - r-controlled vowel ar
* Spelling - barnyard, starlight, carpet, artist, market, spark, shark, garden, march, dart, winter, third, street, between, enough
* Reading- The Great Ball Game retold by Joseph Bruchac
* Fluency - Expression
* Comprehension - Story plot and story structure (beginning, middle, end)
* Robust Vocabulary - clutched, clambered, clumsy, ached, feud, superior, refuse, insult (v.)
* Grammar - proper nouns
* Writing workshop - Publishing personal narratives and sharing these on Friday morning
MATHEMATICS - Unit 3 (Place Value, Money, and Time)
* Review Unit 2 quiz
* Review place value in 2-digit and 3-digit numbers
* Review coin values and exchanges among coins; find coin combinations needed to pay for items
* Review telling time and practice writing time in digital-clock notation
* Represent and rename numbers with base 10 blocks; review time; make, describe, and compare geoboard shapes
SOCIAL STUDIES
* South America (exploration) - features, location
SCIENCE
* A leaf is a part of a plant whose main function is to make food for the plant
* Photosynthesis
* Leaf rubbings
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