Fabulous First Week

Week 2: 2nd Grade Blog

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Last week we focused on mainly review skills that your students learned last year.  I wanted to get a feel for where their learning was after our summer break!  The 2nd graders worked on skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.  They recorded a 2 digit number within 10-99, began writing numbers in word form AND found found one more, one less, within 100 by using a 100 chart as a tool.

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 In Language Arts we focused on nouns.  The students created a circle map listing any person, place or thing as a noun.  This poster will be used as a tool in the room to refer to as the year goes on.  

Here’s the Math Homework for this week....`

Monday	IXL B.1 Comparing Numbers Up to 100.
Tuesday	IXL A.7 Hundred’s Chart
Wednesday	IXL C.2 Writing Numbers Up to 100’s in Words
Thursday	IXL M.1 Place Value Models-tens and ones

Here are some fun pictures from the 1st week of school!

  

Project Time--Students are making a poster for Attentive Listening.

   

Second Graders enjoying P.E. at the end of the day.

Here's some information from Mrs. Loop...

Hello Second Grade Families,

I am so happy that I get to work with your children still in second grade.  They meet with me every morning from 8:15-9:35 for reading class.  

Last week we reviewed how to shop for books in our class library to fill up our book baskets.  The kids also began building stamina while reading to self and writing in their journals.  They are all so eager to get back in the swing of things in our classroom so this week we will be adding choice during our building stamina times so they can choose if they want to read to themselves or work on writing first.  They are all working at being able to read and write for 20 minutes without being interrupted.  

We are also reviewing reading secrets in student’s names which correlate with secrets found in words when we are reading.  We have also reviewed what a syllable is  (a word or part of a word with one vowel pattern).  We discussed that every word needs a vowel and the kids practiced sorting sticky notes with groups of letters on them under the heading “IS A SYLLABLE” or “IS NOT A SYLLABLE”.  They put a dot under the vowel in the letter groups and placed the sticky note under “IS A SYLLABLE” and if they did not have a vowel they placed it under “IS NOT A SYLLABLE”.

We will continue discussing syllables this week, reviewing secrets in the remaining student’s names, and building stamina with read to self, read to someone, and work on writing.

Please encourage your child to read a book of their choice each night.  Please listen to them read or even take turns reading a sentence, paragraph, or page with them.  Assigned reading books will not be sent home until probably the first week in September.  

Happy reading,

Katy Loop