Dear Parents,
The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is going soooo fast. Students are very excited about all the holiday activities that are going on around them. Many students have been coming to school so happy to share about all the fun family activities whether it be going tree hunting, trimming the tree, or about the "Elves" that have been visiting them. It is such a magical but busy time.
Math
Our work in math centered around making equivalent amounts of money using different coin and dollar denominations, making change, and subtracting cents from a dollar and dollars and cents from ten dollars.
We practiced two strategies for subtracting dollars and cents from ten dollars. I want to share them with you so that you can support and reinforce these concepts with your child at home.
These concepts proved to be a bit challenging and took longer than I expected. Because we needed to spend additional time on these concepts our assessment will be Monday (12/8) rather than last Wednesday as scheduled.
We practiced two strategies for subtracting dollars and cents from ten dollars. I want to share them with you so that you can support and reinforce these concepts with your child at home.
These concepts proved to be a bit challenging and took longer than I expected. Because we needed to spend additional time on these concepts our assessment will be Monday (12/8) rather than last Wednesday as scheduled.
Homework
Mon. IXL P.9-Add money up to a dollar
Tues. IXL P.10-Subtract money up to a dollar
Wed. Practice Test Worksheet
Thurs. No Homework (Test)
Writing
The students of Room 5 have been doing an excellent job with our informative writing piece. Students used facts gathered from books, videos, and web quests about the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. Our research was done before Thanksgiving and we completed rough drafts this past week. the rough drafts have been very good and I am anxious for students to complete final copies this week. We will continue our informative writing with Christmas in the countries of Australia and Germany.
Language Arts
In Language Arts we continued to identify words that need to be capitalized. Students are using the acronym MINTS to help them remember words that need to be capitalized.
Months of the year and days of the week
I (even in the middle of a sentence)
Names
Titles of books, movies, and songs
Start of every sentence
We created an anchor chart as a resource for our room with student illustrations and examples. I know that we will refer to this resource often during writing.
We also worked on possessive nouns. Students worked on making singular nouns possessive by adding an apostrophe s. Our work with possessive nouns will continue this week.
Months of the year and days of the week
I (even in the middle of a sentence)
Names
Titles of books, movies, and songs
Start of every sentence
We created an anchor chart as a resource for our room with student illustrations and examples. I know that we will refer to this resource often during writing.
We also worked on possessive nouns. Students worked on making singular nouns possessive by adding an apostrophe s. Our work with possessive nouns will continue this week.
Projects
This past week we have been putting the final touches on our 51st state projects so that they will be ready to present next week. As was sent out in an earlier email, parents are invited to hear students present their projects on Thursday, December 11th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM. At this time students will present their slide show presentations, travel brochure, and state maps. Hopefully you will be able to attend.
As the time until Christmas gets shorter, we all get so busy!! My hope for all my 2nd grade families is that even within the "holiday rush" you are able to step away and enjoy the beauty of the season. Here's to a peaceful week.
Sincerely,
Anne Bloomfield
As the time until Christmas gets shorter, we all get so busy!! My hope for all my 2nd grade families is that even within the "holiday rush" you are able to step away and enjoy the beauty of the season. Here's to a peaceful week.
Sincerely,
Anne Bloomfield
Here's the Reading information from Mrs. Jackson...
2nd Grade Blog
Dear Families,
I saw some of you this weekend enjoying Christmas in Fallon with your families. One of our very favorite things to do as a family is to attend the Christmas tree lighting. Things always feel magical with big flakes of snow brushing your face. I’m going to spend time each day appreciating and enjoying the magic that surrounds all of our children and families during this special time.
This past week we had a wonderful time enjoying 4 different versions of The Gingerbread Man. It is so fun to pull out books that we only read once a year and revisit them. We are still working at finding stronger comparisons and contrasts between different versions of the same text and will continue working on this throughout the next two weeks.
This week we will also be be using a variety of informational text on reindeer in order to identify the main ideas of individual paragraphs within a multi-paragraph essay and identifying information that we learn in the text of an article or story vs. in the illustrations of an article or story.
Our word family this week is the “ight” Spelling pattern. Just a reminder, if you would like your child to use Spelling City on-line to help them practice, I have included the link below. I will have this week's words posted on the website later this afternoon. Also as a refresher, your child will be assessed on their “ight” word list on Monday. Then during the week we will review this pattern daily, and on Thursday we will have a Spelling assessment over our words. Tomorrow, your child will be bringing home their Spelling assessments from last week.
Spelling City
Have a fabulous week.
Thank you-Kristen Jackson
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