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
No comments:
Post a Comment