I don't know about you, but I am loving this "fall" weather!! It definitely makes me want to spend the day baking and the evening curled up with a cup of cocoa and a good book. Hope you were able to enjoy this weather this weekend as well.
The big news for the week was diving into our new project, "Then and Now". This project is going to be alot of work, but it is work that is quite exciting!! Researching with 2nd graders has been a learning curve for all of us. Students are using their chrome books and have been exploring sites but the reading (even when the site is specific for children) has been a challenge.
Part of our research this week was done through our walking field trip to the Churchill County Museum. The students did a fantastic job in the museum. Behavior was excellent and students asked many good questions about the exhibits. The Dairy Queen treat was very well deserved. If it's been awhile since you visited this Fallon gem, I would highly suggest stopping by.
On Friday our professional development was with Tiffany Kelly from Google. She opened up Google Classroom for us. I was able to create assignments for the Project Groups and post videos that will help students with their research. I am really excited to share this information with the students of Room 5.
Speaking of the project, research, and videos...I am looking for 4 parent volunteers to come it and help students with the project on Tuesday, September 30th from 1:00 to 2:00 pm and possibly Thursday, October 2nd. You would be viewing selected videos with students, discussing the content, and supporting students as the put the important ideas down in writing. If you are able to join us please let me know:)
In math we spent the week on Part-Whole Word Problems and Comparison Word Problems. Word problems are always a bit tricky for students. As we work on them we are "dissecting" the problems looking for the important clues, to help us to understand and answer the problems. In our answer we are writing an equation and writing an answer sentence. Below are some examples.
Part-Whole Word Problems
Sarah drew 7 pictures on Saturday. She drew a few more pictures on Sunday. She drew 15 pictures altogether. How many pictures did she draw on Sunday?
Equation: 15 -- 7 = _8_ or 7 + _8_ = 15
Answer Sentence: Sarah drew 8 pictures on Sunday.
Comparison Word Problems
There are 12 cherries and 5 pears. How many more cherries than pears are there?
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P = pear
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Equation: 12 -- 5 = _7_ or 5 + _7_ = 12
Answer Sentence: There are 7 more cherries than pears.
Our work with word problems will be ongoing.
Here's the homework for this week.
Mon. Worksheet: Word Problems Part 1
Tues. Worksheet: Word Problems Part 2
Wed. IXL G.1 Add Multiples of 10
Thurs. IXL H.1 Subtract Multiples of 10
Just a reminder with homework--students should be doing 20 minutes of reading and 15 minutes of math per night Monday through Thursday. No students should be working for hours on homework.
With the lovely cooler weather students will be wearing more clothing, just remember to label your child's "logo wear" and outer wear. It hasn't even been that cold yet and our "lost and found" table is getting full.
Have a great week!!
Anne Bloomfield
Here's a message from Mrs. Jackson...
2nd Grade Reading Blog from Mrs. Jackson
September 29-October 2
September will be ending this week and October will begin. Next week the October Halloween books will come out in our classroom and the excitement and anticipation will begin. I continue meeting with your child daily in small Guided Reading groups. I so appreciate the work you are doing at home helping reinforce the Reading strategies that we are learning in our groups.
We are also going to delve into the characters in our books and the ways that events cause characters to change throughout a book. At the same time, we will continue focusing on the main facets of all stories (setting, characters, plot, beginning, middle, end, etc. ).
We continue to write almost daily in our Work on Writing Journals. Our writing is developing and including more adventure and fantasy writing (mostly fictional stories with animals for characters).
Last week we also began our Listen to Reading center. We listened to a story focused on the history of the airplane and used this story to get more experience restating our questions in our answers.
I look forward to another great week! A huge kudos to Mrs. Bloomfield for all the extra work that she has been doing to make the classroom projects a success! The work that she has done guiding each child’s initial learning on their chromebooks is phenomenal. She also brought many of her own personal items to make the past come alive.
Thank you so much! Kristen Jackson
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