Both second grade classes will be having Pumpkin Day on Wednesday, Oct. 29. We will be exploring pumpkins and doing many pumpkin activities. If you are willing and able please sign up to bring some thing on this day. Thanks for your support!
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October 20, 2014
October 17, 2014
Many Seconds in Second
Days seem to fly by in second grade. We have been busy workers and thinkers. I can’t believe the first quarter of second
grade has been completed. Your child is
coming home with his/her report card this afternoon. I hope you sit down with your child and
celebrate all his/her successes in the first nine weeks of school. I am appreciative of the diligent work and
great attitude for learning your child puts forth each and every day. The children are learning and recognizing the
work they do in school, honors and
pleases God! I look forward to next
week’s Parent-Teacher conferences. It is my joy to share with you your child’s
successes.
Here are some things I would like to highlight about our
school days:
In Science this week we started learning about Land Forms
and Bodies of water. We marvel at the
many different surfaces of earth God has given us to enjoy. Your child has been busy working with a partner
on a small research project by reading an article on a website called
‘facts4me’. They have learned three new
facts about a landform and created a Keynote presentation on their i-pads. This is impressive work for 7 and 8 year
olds!
In reading, the next month your child will be learning and
reviewing many different strategies for figuring out tricky words. Some of these strategies are: flipping the sound, context clues, picture
clues, sliding through the word, find a smaller word inside the larger words,
and phonics rules. Your child is
becoming quiet the problem solver during reading.
As part of our good
behavior award, we made reading tents today. I must say, they were very creative tents.
However, they sure enjoyed reading inside them!
Reminders:
-Next week there will be no spelling or math homework.
-Reading minutes are due each Monday. A new recording sheet is handed out on Monday
and should be returned the following Monday.
-Library books are due every Tuesday
-Bible Memory: Psalm 23 due Friday, Oct. 31 Review from first grade
-There is no school Wednesday-Friday next week for
students.
October 10, 2014
Story Retell
In reading, we have been working hard at retelling the stories that we read with details. One way we practice retelling stories is by using a graphic organizer-our hand. Each finger on our hand reminds us of what details we should include in a story retell-who were the characters, the setting, problems, important events, and the solution. We used the SonicPics app on our iPad to retell a story we read as a class. Here is one to view. I will slowly e-mail your child's project in the next week.
October 6, 2014
Many Seconds in Second
- We're beginning our nextscience unit, Earth's Land and Water, this week. Your child will be taking his/her plants home this week.
- Our word work (VoWac) activities are providing practice with ways to spell the long vowel sounds. There will be a spelling test on these words on Friday. A paper copy of these words went home on Friday or they are on the side bar on the blog.
- The second graders are becoming excellent thinkers with all the story problems they've been solving in our math work. These types of word problems, along with the visual representations the students draw on their math papers, help them apply the basic equations of addition and subtraction to similar real-world situations.
- Reading and Writing Workshop are favorite times of the day for many of the second graders. We're learning to stop and respond to what we read on stickie notes and in our reading notebooks. This work is then shared during conferring time with me and with your child's reading buddy. In writing, most students have 3-5 stories they've finished or are revising. We'll be choosing one story to "publish" during this next month.
- We spent the first month of our Bible stories on a brief overview of the Old Testament. We've talked about how God chose one man (Abraham) and his family to become a nation (Israel) that would be His chosen people. We've seen God's incredible grace as His people turned away again and again, yet God continued to forgive them when they repented. For the next two weeks we'll be looking at the time between the old and new testaments (400 years) and see how the world conditions led to God's perfect timing for Jesus' birth.
- Report Cards will be sent home (paper copy) on Friday, Oct. 17.
- Parent/Teacher Conferences - Tues. evening (Oct. 21) and Wed. afternoon and evening (Oct. 22).
- No school for students on Oct. 22-24.
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