Week 3

September 17, 2017

Dear Second Grade Families,

It’s hard to believe we will be entering our 3rd week of school!!  The first 2 weeks have been very busy and all  2nd graders are getting settled into a routine.   

Here’s a few of important reminders…

1.  Although it’s early in the school year, there seems to be a few “bugs” going around already.  If your child is going to be absent, please call the office (423-5437) by 9 a.m.

2.  Also please remember that if anyone comes to check your child/children out of school who is not on the emergency card they will not be released to them.  The list can be updated by going to the Infinite Campus Parent Portal.

3.  “Pjammin For Cancer” is coming up on September 28th.  Several emails have been sent out by Oasis Academy explaining this special Pajama Day.  Participation is optional.

4.  Room 17 has a student who has an allergy to fish and shellfish. While we can have food in our classroom, this is a reminder that students should eat only food that has been packed by an adult for them. Students should not be sharing or trading food.

Math

This week in Math we worked on a very difficult but important skill--renaming tens and ones.  I must say, Miss Garcia and myself are  very proud of how hard students worked to understand this concept.  We used manipulatives and drew pictures to help us work on this skill.  Here's an example...

If the number is 32, it can be renamed the following ways.

32
Tens	Ones
3	2
I I I	■■
2	12
I I	■■■■■■■■■■ ■■
1	22
I	■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ ■■
0	32
	■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ ■■

We will continue to review this skill as it will be very important for mental math.  Other skills we worked on were reading and writing 2-digit numbers in standard form (63), word form (sixty-three), and expanded form (60 + 3)..

Here is the homework for the week…

Monday	IXL A. 6 Number Lines Up to 100
Tuesday	IXL M.5  Place Value 10’s and 1’s
Wednesday	Renaming Worksheet 10’s and 1’s
Thursday	IXL  M.4 Identify a Digit Up to the 100’s Place

Language

We continued to take simple sentences, combine them with conjunctions (and, but, or, so) to form a compound sentence.  These sentences were used to identify nouns, verbs, and conjunctions.  

Writing

In writing we completed a short sensory piece on the first week in 2nd grade.  We also discussed academic and social goals for 2nd grade.  Students were very thoughtful about declaring and writing their goals for the school year.

Projects

Our work with our Tribes Project has continued.  We focused on the Tribes Agreements of Mutual Respect, No Put Downs, and Appreciations.  For each agreement we have made an artifact for the class so that we will remember the agreement throughout the year.

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield

and

Shannon Garcia