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.
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