This is a very busy week for us. Tomorrow we attend a play,“Madeline and the Red Hat" and Wednesday is Groundhog Day. Thursday is the 100th Day of School and Friday is Grandparents Day! The schedule is as follows: 8:30-9am Breakfast; 9-9:45 Program in the Janet Root Theater (yes, our second graders will perform); 10-11 Grandparents or Special Friends tour the school guided by the children; 12pm dismissal. Times are approximate. What a busy and exciting week ahead!
Some other important dates are as follows:
Conference Day - Feb. 10th
Town Meeting Presentation - Feb. 14th
We will begin Current Events next week and you will be receiving a schedule to keep track of the time your child will share.
SHHHHHHHH!!! Valentine's Day is coming up and to celebrate, we are asking that you send a Valentine's card to your child here at school. Please address this to your child, c/o Ms. O'Mullane. I ask that you keep this a secret. After a snack on the 14th, we will open these up.
Here is what will we focus on in class this week. I hope you got to see us in ebytes this past week celebrating Australia Day.
Language Arts
Phonics: oi/oy
Spelling: join, noisy, boil, enjoy, soil, avoid, royal, voice, point, coin, destroy, annoy, loyal, poison, hundred
Vocabulary: volume, expression, creative, performance, concentrate, relieved, attract, territory, universal, audible
Reader: Ah, Music! by Aliki
Fluency: Accuracy
Grammar: Number Words
Writing: My Special Gifts/Talent
Handwriting: Lower case cursive
Mathematics - Unit 6
* Addition of three or more numbers
* Comparison number stories
* Collecting, sorting, tallying, and graphing data
* Multiplication Arrays
Social Studies
Australia
Science
Rocks and Minerals
I am in the process of finish writing, math and reading assessments that I will share with you on conference day.
Please continue exposing your child to good literature and work on the Do Anytime Activities that were included on the Unit 6 Family Math Letter.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Week of January 24th
Important Dates to Remember
* Library - every Tuesday
* Ident-a-kid - Tuesday, January 25
* Spirit Day - Friday, January 28
* Performance of Madeline and the Red Hat - Tuesday, February 1
* Grandparent's Day - Friday, February 4
* Picture Lady - Tuesday, February 8
* Spring Conference Day - Thursday, February 10 (times were sent out last week)
* Science Teach-In - Wednesday, February 16
* Professional Development Day - Friday, February 18
* Field Day - Friday, March 11
Here is our week at a glance. Current Events will begin again in February.
Parent Reader - J. Emerson
Language Arts - Lesson 17
* Phonics - short vowel e/ea
* Spelling - meadow, instead, breakfast, treasure, feather, meant, health, breath, ahead, lead, wealthy, heavy, sweating, question, against
* Reading - Annie's Gifts by Angela Shelf Medearls
* Robust Vocabulary - journeyed, frail, stomped, sipped, entertain, except, carefree, screeching, horrendous, melodious
* Grammar - Adjectives for Senses
* Writing Workshop - Small Moment - Editing/Proofreading
* Handwriting - Cursive using lower case letters
Mathematics - Unit 5 Review, Progress Check and Unit 6
Student will review the concepts taught in Unit 5 (3D and 2D Shapes) and do a written assessment to check their progress. Unit 6 will be introduced, so be on the lookout for the new Family Letter, that your child will bring home on Thursday in their homework folder. This new unit focuses on whole-number operations and number stories. Please continue helping your child practice ballpark estimates and the partial sums addition method.
Social Studies - Australia
We will continue learning about Australia and the students have a research assignment about Australian landmarks.
It is Australia Day on Wednesday (January 26th) which commemorates the arrival of the British colonists in Sydney Cove in 1788. So we will be doing some fun Australian activities, including learning Waltzing Matilda (a well-known Australian song).
Science - Rock Cycle
The students are really showing interest in learning about rocks and minerals and last Friday enjoyed a visit from Julia C. dad, who showed us his own rock collection (including an opal). The students are beginning to see the difference between igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and have been having a fun time trying to classify their class rock collection. We will continue with this investigation this week.
* Library - every Tuesday
* Ident-a-kid - Tuesday, January 25
* Spirit Day - Friday, January 28
* Performance of Madeline and the Red Hat - Tuesday, February 1
* Grandparent's Day - Friday, February 4
* Picture Lady - Tuesday, February 8
* Spring Conference Day - Thursday, February 10 (times were sent out last week)
* Science Teach-In - Wednesday, February 16
* Professional Development Day - Friday, February 18
* Field Day - Friday, March 11
Here is our week at a glance. Current Events will begin again in February.
Parent Reader - J. Emerson
Language Arts - Lesson 17
* Phonics - short vowel e/ea
* Spelling - meadow, instead, breakfast, treasure, feather, meant, health, breath, ahead, lead, wealthy, heavy, sweating, question, against
* Reading - Annie's Gifts by Angela Shelf Medearls
* Robust Vocabulary - journeyed, frail, stomped, sipped, entertain, except, carefree, screeching, horrendous, melodious
* Grammar - Adjectives for Senses
* Writing Workshop - Small Moment - Editing/Proofreading
* Handwriting - Cursive using lower case letters
Mathematics - Unit 5 Review, Progress Check and Unit 6
Student will review the concepts taught in Unit 5 (3D and 2D Shapes) and do a written assessment to check their progress. Unit 6 will be introduced, so be on the lookout for the new Family Letter, that your child will bring home on Thursday in their homework folder. This new unit focuses on whole-number operations and number stories. Please continue helping your child practice ballpark estimates and the partial sums addition method.
Social Studies - Australia
We will continue learning about Australia and the students have a research assignment about Australian landmarks.
It is Australia Day on Wednesday (January 26th) which commemorates the arrival of the British colonists in Sydney Cove in 1788. So we will be doing some fun Australian activities, including learning Waltzing Matilda (a well-known Australian song).
Science - Rock Cycle
The students are really showing interest in learning about rocks and minerals and last Friday enjoyed a visit from Julia C. dad, who showed us his own rock collection (including an opal). The students are beginning to see the difference between igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and have been having a fun time trying to classify their class rock collection. We will continue with this investigation this week.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Week of January 18
Here is our week at a glance. Today the students started the day off doing a lap on our new athletics track. Be on the lookout for pictures in this week's e-bytes.
A short week ahead, with yesterday being a holiday, but lots of learning taking place. Ask your child about their day.
Reminders:
* Math Night this Thursday, January 20th at 7pm
* Parent/Teacher Conference Day on Thursday, February 10th (No School for Students that Day)
Language Arts
Phonics: Digraphs n/kn; r/wr; f/gh, ph; suffixes ly and ness
Spelling: elephant, photograph, handwriting, knuckle, enough, paragraph, knight, wrote, know, knot, kneeling, wrapped, tough, wreck, Australia
Reading: "Mr Putter and Tabby Write the Book" by Cynthia Rylant
Fluency: Intonation
Comprehension: Setting, following directions; Monitor comprehension: read ahead
Robust Vocabulary: disturb, underneath, cozy, enchanting, instead, thrilled, review, celebrate procrastinate, diversion
Grammar: Adjectives
Writing Workshop: Proofreading and editing small moment writing
Handwriting: Introduction to cursive handwriting
Mathematics - Unit 5
* 3D shapes
* Lines of Symmetry
* Review Unit 5
Social Studies
* Australia (Landmark research)
Ask the students about sampling vegemite (a produce of Australia). Most enjoyed it with fresh bread and butter.
Science
* Rock Cycle
* Examining rocks (Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic)
* Guest presenter
A short week ahead, with yesterday being a holiday, but lots of learning taking place. Ask your child about their day.
Reminders:
* Math Night this Thursday, January 20th at 7pm
* Parent/Teacher Conference Day on Thursday, February 10th (No School for Students that Day)
Language Arts
Phonics: Digraphs n/kn; r/wr; f/gh, ph; suffixes ly and ness
Spelling: elephant, photograph, handwriting, knuckle, enough, paragraph, knight, wrote, know, knot, kneeling, wrapped, tough, wreck, Australia
Reading: "Mr Putter and Tabby Write the Book" by Cynthia Rylant
Fluency: Intonation
Comprehension: Setting, following directions; Monitor comprehension: read ahead
Robust Vocabulary: disturb, underneath, cozy, enchanting, instead, thrilled, review, celebrate procrastinate, diversion
Grammar: Adjectives
Writing Workshop: Proofreading and editing small moment writing
Handwriting: Introduction to cursive handwriting
Mathematics - Unit 5
* 3D shapes
* Lines of Symmetry
* Review Unit 5
Social Studies
* Australia (Landmark research)
Ask the students about sampling vegemite (a produce of Australia). Most enjoyed it with fresh bread and butter.
Science
* Rock Cycle
* Examining rocks (Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic)
* Guest presenter
Monday, January 10, 2011
Week of January 10th
Welcome to another week in second grade. The students are well rested and motivated to be back. A routine week this week in class, with Library and Picture Lady/Gentleman on Tuesday and Parent/Mystery Reader on Friday.
Here is our week at a glance. Keep encouraging your child to practice the weekly spelling words, student-friendly definitions. They also should read on a daily basis.
I have decided to give the students a rest from sharing Current Events and we will start this up again in February.
The students have been enjoying the critical thinking exercises we have been doing at the start of each day and are showing improvement in problem solving and beginning to see the importance of being reflective.
Student of the Week - Hailey
Parent Reader - Marc F.
Language Arts - Review
Phonics - ch, tch, sh, th, ey, y, soft c and soft g, ir, ur, er, and ear
Spelling Review - perfect, birthday, purple, circus, surprise, pearl, search, swerve, earthquake, lurk, first, more, dream, being, central, fireplace, gentle, gymnast, celebrate, pledge, budge, cereal, fancy, prince, several, getting, probably, new, earth, chimney, nobody, breezy, twenty, keyhole, valley, money, hungry, donkey, speedy, picture, question, favorite, minute, especially, shape, show, then, shadow, bathtub, starfish, matchbox, sandwich, thankful, eighth, themselves, someone, without, follow, direction, written
Readers' Theater - A Birthday Mystery
Fluency - Review punctuation and phrasing
Comprehension - Authors purpose, ask questions, fiction/nonfiction, monitor comprehension by rereading
Robust Vocabulary - Distrust, witness, lock, beneath, bewildered, evasive, mull, startle
Grammar Review - Abbreviations, singular possessive nouns, plural possessive nouns, pronouns
Writing Workshop - Review small moment published work
Mathematics - Unit 5 (3D and 2 D Shapes)
* Parallel line segments
* Exploring polygons, arrays, and attributes
* Quadrangles
* 3D shapes
Social Studies
* Australia
* Marsupial research (as part of homework)
Science - The Rock Cycle
* Types of rocks (igneous rock forms when melted rock cools and hardens; sedimentary rock forms when layers of tiny pieces of rock are pressed together; metamorphic rock is rock changed by heat and pressure into another kind of rock).
If you are a "rock" expert and would like to present during this new science unit, please email me.
I wish you a very happy week. Please contact me if you have any questions about our program or child.
Here is our week at a glance. Keep encouraging your child to practice the weekly spelling words, student-friendly definitions. They also should read on a daily basis.
I have decided to give the students a rest from sharing Current Events and we will start this up again in February.
The students have been enjoying the critical thinking exercises we have been doing at the start of each day and are showing improvement in problem solving and beginning to see the importance of being reflective.
Student of the Week - Hailey
Parent Reader - Marc F.
Language Arts - Review
Phonics - ch, tch, sh, th, ey, y, soft c and soft g, ir, ur, er, and ear
Spelling Review - perfect, birthday, purple, circus, surprise, pearl, search, swerve, earthquake, lurk, first, more, dream, being, central, fireplace, gentle, gymnast, celebrate, pledge, budge, cereal, fancy, prince, several, getting, probably, new, earth, chimney, nobody, breezy, twenty, keyhole, valley, money, hungry, donkey, speedy, picture, question, favorite, minute, especially, shape, show, then, shadow, bathtub, starfish, matchbox, sandwich, thankful, eighth, themselves, someone, without, follow, direction, written
Readers' Theater - A Birthday Mystery
Fluency - Review punctuation and phrasing
Comprehension - Authors purpose, ask questions, fiction/nonfiction, monitor comprehension by rereading
Robust Vocabulary - Distrust, witness, lock, beneath, bewildered, evasive, mull, startle
Grammar Review - Abbreviations, singular possessive nouns, plural possessive nouns, pronouns
Writing Workshop - Review small moment published work
Mathematics - Unit 5 (3D and 2 D Shapes)
* Parallel line segments
* Exploring polygons, arrays, and attributes
* Quadrangles
* 3D shapes
Social Studies
* Australia
* Marsupial research (as part of homework)
Science - The Rock Cycle
* Types of rocks (igneous rock forms when melted rock cools and hardens; sedimentary rock forms when layers of tiny pieces of rock are pressed together; metamorphic rock is rock changed by heat and pressure into another kind of rock).
If you are a "rock" expert and would like to present during this new science unit, please email me.
I wish you a very happy week. Please contact me if you have any questions about our program or child.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Welcome Back!
Happy New Year and welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful break. As I write this blog, I think about how thankful I am to be working at Shorecrest and trying to make a difference in the lives of your children. I look forward to watching your children grow and develop over the next five months and try to make a difference in their lives.
Here is our week at a glance. Please take note that Current Events sharing will begin next Monday, January 10th.
Language Arts
Phonics: r-controlled vowel (ur/ir, ur, er, ear)
Spelling: perfect, birthday, purple, circus, surprise, pearl, search, swerve, earthquake, lurk, first, more, direction, being, dream
Reading: Rain Forest Babies" by Kathy Darling
Fluency: Phrasing
Comprehension: Fiction and Nonfiction; Monitor comprehension: reread
Robust Vocabulary: dappled, entranced, trooped, circling, adorable, assortment, habitat, immense
Grammar: Pronouns
Writing Workshop: Revision (Small Moment Writing) and Things to Look Forward to in 2011
Mathematics: Unit 4 and 5
Review Partial Sums
Progress Check
Rules used to classify shapes; to develop readiness for division; and telling time using digital and analog notation
Points and Line Segments
PLEASE MARK JANUARY 20th ON YOUR CALENDAR FOR OUR MATH NIGHT. MORE DETAILS COMING YOUR WAY NEXT BLOG.
Social Studies
Australia
Science
The Rock Cycle
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