Week 23 Good Bye February, Hello March

                February 26, 2018

Dear Parents,

Winter is certainly back!!!  Like last week, this week could be a bit cold with even

more snow.  Please make sure that you child has appropriate outerwear for the

weather.

Math

This week we are focusing on Partial Differences.  The students should be familiar

with this strategy and have applied it previously with addition and subtraction.  Here

are some examples of homework this week.

Partial Differences With Renaming

Example:

  4 6 7 → 400 + 60 + 7   1.  Show the minuend in expanded form.          

-  2 9 8 → 200 + 90 + 8   2.  Show the subtrahend in expanded form.

  2 0 0      200 - 30  - 1  3. Subtract the hundreds, then the tens, and the ones.

  -  3 0                          4.  Add the partial differences--200 - 30 - 1 = 169

 1  7 0                           5.  Watch out for negative numbers!!

     - 1

 1  6 9

Homework for Week 23

Monday	Worksheet-Partial Differences-Renaming Tens
Tuesday	Worksheet-Partial Differences-Renaming Hundreds
Wednesday	Worksheet-Partial Differences-Renaming Tens and Hundreds
Thursday	Assessment Today-No Homework

Here is some information from Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Rowlett…

2nd Grade Reading

The 2nd graders will have Winter MAPS testing on Monday, February 26.  We took

this test at the beginning of the school year.  I am looking forward to seeing all of the

growth my students have made in reading.

Due to MAPS testing, we will not have spelling words this week and will resume our

spelling practice on March 5.

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield

and

Shannon Garcia

Week 22 Happy President's Day

                                                                                                               February 19, 2018

Dear Parents,

Valentine’s Day may be over but Miss Garcia and I are still feeling the love from all the

cards, candy, and gifts that students gave us.  From the bottom of our hearts--THANK YOU!!

Miss Garcia and myself hope that everyone enjoyed the extra long weekend!  It was so nice

to have an extra day but we are ready for another great week in 2nd grade!

Students have continued to work on adding and subtracting with renaming within 1,000.

This past week students focused on the branch method.  Students picked up on this

strategy quickly.  

Math

This week we are focusing on Partial Sums.  The students should be familiar with

this strategy and have applied it previously with addition and subtraction.  Here are

some examples of homework this week.

Partial Sums with Renaming

Examples:

Renaming in the tens place.    3 2 6  → 300 + 20 + 6    1.  Show the first addend in expanded form.          +  4 5 7  → 400 + 50 + 7   2.  Show the second addend in expanded form.   7 0 0      700 +  70 + 13     3.  Add the hundreds, then the tens, and the ones.      7 0                                 4.  Add the partial sums--700 + 70 + 13 =783  +  1 3   7 8 3

Renaming in the hundreds place.    3 8 6  → 300 + 80 + 6    1.  Show the first addend in expanded form.          +  4 5 3  → 400 + 50 + 3     2.  Show the second addend in expanded form.   7 0 0      700 + 130 + 9     3.  Add the hundreds, then the tens, and the ones.   1 3 0                                 4.  Add the partial sums--700 + 130 + 9 =839  +    9   8 3 9

Renaming in the tens and hundreds place. 3 6 6  → 300 + 60 + 6    1.  Show the first addend in expanded form.          +  4 5 7  → 400 + 50 + 7     2.  Show the second addend in expanded form.   7 0 0      700 + 110 + 13     3.  Add the hundreds, then the tens, and the ones.   1 1 0                                    4.  Add the partial sums--700 + 110 + 13 =823  +  1 3   8 2 3

Here is what we will be working on for homework this week:

Tuesday	Worksheet: Partial Sums Renaming in the Tens
Wednesday	Worksheet: Partial Sums Renaming in the Hundreds
Thursday	Worksheet: Partial Sums Renaming in the Tens and Hundreds

Language

In language, students will be increasing their vocabulary by working with synonyms.

 Students will be ordering words by intensity.  For example, angry and livid are

synonyms for the word mad.  If you ordered these synonyms from weakest to

strongest, they would be mad, angry, livid.

Writing

Students are still working on editing and revising their Snow Creature stories.  This

narrative writing assignment has been the longest writing our 2nd graders have

written.  Our teacher/student conferencing is taking a bit longer and has been hard

to schedule.  Miss Garcia and myself are hoping to meet with all students this week.

From the conferencing that we have completed, we think the wait will be well worth it.  

It looks like it’s going to be another chilly week and students are outside for recess

and P.E.  Please be sure that you child is dressed for the weather with a jacket or

sweatshirt.

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield

and

Shannon Garcia

Week 21-- It's Valentine's Day Week!!

   February 12, 2018

Dear Parents,

Happy Valentine’s Week!!  As has been mentioned in last week’s blog, since Valentine’s Day

is on a school day, we will be celebrating it with a small party on Wednesday.  Students may

bring in Valentines to give to their classmates.  We will pass out Valentines and play some

Valentine related games on Wednesday afternoon from 3:15 till 3:55 pm.  We are keeping it

very simple!!

Math

We have continued working on adding with renaming within 1,000.  This is a very

complicated standard (remember, it was started at the end of the first trimester).  All of the

time has been very worthwhile, as students are really picking up on the renaming, because

it is all done through decomposing and composing numbers students are really

understanding how to break down and rename the different place values.  

This past week we focused on addition using branch method on Tuesday, Wednesday, and

Thursday.  This week we will continue to work on adding with renaming within 1,000 and will

work on subtracting with renaming in the one’s and ten’s place.  Here's an example...

      762   -    43  =                     1.  Decompose numbers by place value.

     ↙↓↘         ↙ ↘                      2.  Group hundreds.  Group tens.  Group ones.

700  60 2    40    3                      3.  Subtract hundreds. Subtract tens. Subtract ones.

(700 - 0) + (60 - 40) + (2 - 3)      4.  Watch out for negative differences.

    700       +    20     -     1  =       5.  Write and solve renamed equation.   

        720 - 1 = 719   

Here's the homework for the week...

Monday	Worksheet: Addition Branching with renaming 1’s and 10’s
Tuesday	Worksheet: Subtraction Branching with renaming 1’s
Wednesday	No Homework  Enjoy Valentine’s Day with your family
Thursday	IXL - I.2 Add multiples of 10 or 100 (use your mental math skills)

Language

In Language we are finishing up our work with capitalization using MINTS.  Students have

worked on a resource for our room to remind us to capitalize the names months, days, and

holidays, the pronoun I, the names of people, places, and products, titles, and the start

of a sentence.  We will be assessing on this skill on Tuesday.

Writing

All writers in 2nd grade have completed their rough drafts of a narrative.  Students will spend

part of the week doing self editing and revising and sharing their narratives with others.

 Students will be conferencing and completing their final draft by the week’s end.

Projects

In projects students have been learning about maps.  Students have completed making a

map of their rooms which included a title, compass rose, and a key.  

Remember that President’s Day is coming up on Monday, February 19th, there will be no

school.  Wishing everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day and a Happy President’s Day!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia