Welcome to the 4th Quarter!!

                                                                                                    March 14, 2016

Dear Second Grade Families,

I'd like to say a BIG thank-you to all the parents and family members that were able to come to the special events last week.  First, our drama performance, "Giraffes Don't Dance" was a smash hit.  The students with the direction of Mrs. Berg put on a fabulous show.  Secondly many of you came back to hear students present their animal projects.  I was very pleased that we had so many guests visit our "zoo".

Well here we are in the first week of the 4th quarter.  If the first three quarters have seemed to pass in a snap; I can't image how quickly the last quarter will pass!  

Math
Our week in math continued to be all about word problems.  We worked on word problems related to money and measurement.  Students have been working extremely hard on reading, understanding, and solving word problems.  We ended our week with an assessment.

As we enter the 4th quarter, students will be exploring fractions.  We will be looking at wholes versus fractions, as well as halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths.  

Homework for Week 29

Monday	IXL U.1 - Equal Parts
Tuesday	IXL U.2 - Halves, Thirds, Fourths
Wednesday	Fraction worksheet
Thursday	IXL U.3 - Identify the Fraction

Language

In language students are working on 2 very important punctuation marks that are often confused, the comma and the apostrophe.  Students will be learning about where commas are used in dates, letters, lists, and in writing the names of cities with their states.  They will be using apostrophe's in contractions and possessive nouns.

  Writing/Projects

Writing was all about putting the finishing touches on our research papers on animals and on our maps of where our animals are found in the wild.  The week concluded with students getting to share their animal reports with everyone that visited our zoo!  

Although this project took quite a while to complete, I was very pleased with the finished product!  Many thanks to those that were able to join us on Thursday!!

Wishing you all a Happy St. Patrick's Day and a Happy 1st Day of Spring!


Sincerely,
Anne Bloomfield