Week 5

                                                                                                                         

                                                                                             September 11, 2016                                                                                   

Dear Second Grade Families,

The weather is getting cooler, soccer, football, and other fall activities are in full swing.  Miss Garcia and I are loving that our second graders are in their school routine.

Math

Last week in math our focus was to continue renaming 3-digit numbers.  This is challenging concept but the students of Room 17 are beginning to be pros.  It has taken a lot of work with manipulatives and working with partners but I believe we have it!!  Here is an example of a few of the combinations students could come up with.  We will continue to work on this skill daily just to be sure that all students have a firm understanding of it!

375
Hundreds	Tens	Ones
3	7	5
3	6	15
2	17	5
2	16	15

Along with renaming we continued to work with writing numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded form and comparing 3-digit numbers using <, >, and =.

Monday- IXL M.4 Identify a digit up to the hundreds place

Tuesday- IXL M.5 Place value 10’s and 1’s

  Wednesday- XL M.6 Place value up to 100

Thursday- IXL M.8 Convert to/from a number tens and ones

Language

We finished our Tree Maps to help us see the different ways to make singular nouns (names one person, place, or thing) into plural nouns (names more than one person, place, or thing).  As we make nouns plural, students are learning about the irregular forms of plural nouns, which include changing the “y” to an “i” and add “es” (cherry = cherries), adding “es” (lunch = lunches), and changing the “f” to a “ves” (scarf = scarves).  This week we will work with irregular nouns such as child-children, tooth-teeth, goose-geese etc.

Writing

We are hoping to have our “Who Am I?” writings finished by Tuesday.  The 2nd grade students have been working on their art piece to go with it.  They are drawing their self portraits to go with their writings.  Miss Garcia and I hope to have them hung up in the hallways be the end of the week.  Stop by to see how creative your kiddos are!

Projects

Second grade students have been working on our first project--Tribes in Action.  During the first 4 weeks of school we worked on learning about the Tribes Agreements--Attentive Listening, Mutual Respect, Appreciations/No Put-Downs, and Right to Pass.  Students ended the week with a clay activity that involved Attentive Listening and Mutual Respect.  They started out with “magic clay”.   After discovering their color, students divided their clay into 3 parts and traded with students that had a different color.  With trading completed students mixed clay colors together, ending up the activity with 6 different colors.

 

This past week students were broken into groups.  We will continue this week creating puppets and writing short puppet show scripts that shows each agreement.  We will have a firm date for the puppet show this week and will put that in an email later on this week for the exact date and time next week (at this point it will more than likely be September 20th or the 21st at 2:30 pm).  Again, look for an exact date and time in an email this week.

Loving Learning,

Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia      

Here’s Reading information from Mrs. Loop...

Hello Second Grade Families,

We got right back into the routine of reading groups last week.  It is fun to see what 2nd graders are able to read compared to 1st graders and the students are pretty excited with the new books they are being asked to read each day.  Please remember to support your child’s learning by having them complete their reading homework daily.  Often times students will be rereading what they read together with me in class.  They will have a paper to fill out comprehension questions or other reading related activities each night.  Students who do not complete their reading nightly will need to attend study hall during their P.E. or specials class time (which is currently Art) and it will impact their “work ethic” grade on their report card.

The kids continued reviewing closed syllables and open syllables and began learning about vowel-consonant-e syllables.  They practiced sorting a variety of words that fit are these syllable types.  This week we will begin to look at multisyllabic words and identifying these syllable types in each syllable of the words.  This knowledge will help students be able to better read longer words independently.

Happy reading,

Mrs. Loop