I am looking forward to meeting with you on Thursday to chat about how your student is settling into the routine of second grade and ways to support his/her learning and development this year.
We are in a new month and I will be placing a new Current Event Schedule in your student's Take Home Folder. Seeing the week is short, we will start Current Events next Tuesday. Instead, we have made this week "telling a favorite joke week" to put a smile on everyone's faces. Your child will have the opportunity to share a favorite joke during our class meeting.
Here is what else is happening in our class this week.
Language Arts
* Phonics: long vowel a/ai, ay
* Spelling: raindrop, gray, waist, swayed, spray, crayon, waited, brain, highway, mailbox, daytime, happy, catch, must, stop
* Reading: The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry; James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
* Fluency: Intonation
* Comprehension: Making predictions and using prior knowledge
* Vocabulary: ancestor, creatures, ruins (n.), smoldering
* Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
* Writing: Personal Narrative; Stretching ideas across the page (think, sketch and write)
* Handwriting: Upper Case Letters
Mathematics: Unit 2
* Subtraction from addition (minus 0 and minus 1; relate subtraction facts to addition facts)
* Fact families (up to 10)
* Use a pan balance and spring scale, to experience the ounce/pound relationship, and to find the total number of objects in equal groups
* Name Collections (to review the concepts that a number can be named in many ways)
Social Studies
* Create postcard from famous landmarks in North America
Science - Changes - Lesson 5
* Students will explore mixtures of a solid and a liquid
* Observe three solids - gravel, toilet tissue, and kosher salt - and mixing each one with water, the students will discuss the changes they observe
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