December 12, 2015
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 attending the tree lighting ceremony, going tree hunting, trimming the tree, or about the "Elves" that have been visiting them. It is such a magical but busy time!
Reminder--
The students in Mrs. Bloomfield’s class will be presenting their music program on December 19th. The performance will take place in the High Hangout at 3:15 PM. We hope you can join us.
Math
Our work in math centered around composing and decomposing shapes and identifying and extending patterns.Students spent quite a bit of time cutting out shapes and putting them together to compose another shape from the orignal shapes. Students got very creative with their composed shapes!
We also spent some time decomposing a square (tangram) into 7 shapes, (5 triangles, 1 parallelogram, and 1 square) called "tans". After cutting them apart students had to try form different shapes using some or all of the tans.
Finally, we worked on reading, naming, extending, and creating patterns. Students used shapes to create a pattern with a pattern unit of 3 or 4. We practiced with patterns that used orientation and students were encouraged use that attribute in their own pattern.
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This pattern is an AABC pattern. It's repeating unit is 2 triangles pointing up, 1 small triangle pointing to the right, and 1 triangle pointing down.
Here is the homework for Week 17...
Monday
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Workbook pg. 24
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Tuesday
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Worksheet pg. 11-12
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Wednesday
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Workbook pg. 25-26
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Thursday
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IXL M.3 Place Value Models Up to 1,000
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Writing
Second grade writers are continuing to work on opinion writing. Students have completed a group opinion piece about whether restaurants should be allowed to ban children. This led to some great discussions about the pros and cons on the topic. At the end of last week students were introduced to another topic to discuss and write on--Should All Children Participating in an Activity Recieve a Trophy/Award. We have spent time listing pros and cons for this topic. Students have decided whether they are pro or con and have completed a flee map in preparation to write their rough draft.
Language Arts
In Language Arts students finished up our unit on capitalization. Students assessed on capitalization this week. Although students did quite well on the assessment overall, we will still be working hard to make sure that the capitalization skills learned carries into our daily writing.
Projects
Work on matter projects continue...students in partnerships have selected the form of matter that they will heat and cool. Student scientists are working on lab reports. They have written a question, formed a hypothesis, listed materials, and have worked on writing a procedure. This project will be wrapped up next week.
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
and
Shannon Garcia
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