Our greeting of the week is "G'Day" from Australia. Each week I am teaching the students how to say hello in a different language. Last week our greeting was Buenos dias, which is hello in Spanish.
Welcome to our third week of the school year. I hope you had a terrific weekend, as I did. September is a busy month, with the beginning of Current Events (this week) and Showcase Student (the following week), Picture Day is on September 11th, and our classmate, Victoria celebrates her 8th birthday.
Thanks to all who signed up for Parent Reader, which is held at 8:10 on Fridays. This week's Parent Reader is Kimberly B (September 14th) and next week will be Kristin L (September 21st).
Current Events
Current Events begins this week and I can't wait to hear what interesting news the students have found. I showed the students two great online news websites last week: http://dogonews.com/ and also http://www.timeforkids.com/news which can be used for current event's sharing. Please refer to the calendar in your child's Take Home Folder to see the day your child is scheduled to share.
Second Grade Show
The students are starting to learn the first poem, The Seven Continents, for our second grade show. I have put a copy of the poem, along with the three other poems, that the students will be required to recite for the show, in your child's Take Home Folder. Please have your child read over The Seven Continents poem each day as part of their reading assignment this week. My goal is to introduce one new poem each week in the month of September. The second grade show, I am a Small Part of the World, will be on Friday, November 16th at 8:30am. Please mark this date on your calendars.
Here is our curriculum at a glance for this third week of learning:
Language Arts
Phonics: long vowels a/a-e, i/i-e, o/o-e, (y)oo/u-e, CVCe Pattern in Longer Words
Spelling: mistake, refuse, bedtime, misplace, homemade, racetrack, classmate, cupcake, notepad, amuse
Reading: Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes;
Reading Workshop: Readers help themselves stay focused by making plans for themselves; Readers improve their fluency by rereading books; readers improve their fluency by reading at an appropriate rate (not too slow; not too fast); Readers improve their fluency by noticing places with dialogue and make their voices match the voice of the character who is speaking
Vocabulary: precious, envious, discontent, humorous
Grammar: Commands and Exclamations. A command is a sentence that tells someone to do something. It begins with an action words and ends with a period. Strong commands end in an exclamation point.
Writing Workshop: Routines and Procedures; Discovering one Small Moment; Stretching one Small Moment
Handwriting: Preparing to write; Posture, Paper, And Pencil Skills
Mathematics - Unit 1
* Exploring place value patterns on number grids
* Equivalent names for numbers and reviewing the calculator
* Counting and looking for patterns on the calculator
* Comparing numbers using the relation symbols (great than, less than and equal to) and introducing Home Links
* Reading and displaying temperatures, combining values of ones, tens and hundreds using base 10 blocks and exploring addition facts on dominoes
Social Studies - North America
* A journey to North America
* What are some famous North American Landmarks? Exploration in the computer lab using Google Earth
Science - Changes
* Scientific Method (Ask a question; Make a hypothesis; Conduct an Experiment; Collect Data; Analyze Information; Report Results)
* Changes: Students will begin the unit by thinking and talking about a familiar concept; how things around them change. Through a hands-on exploration, students look at the changes that result when they drop an effervescent tablet in water. This activity serves as a pre-unit assessment and sets the stage for our next two lessons in which students look at how water can freeze and melt into a liquid again.
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