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