Week 5

                                                                                                                          

                                                                                                         October 1, 2017                                                                                  

Dear Second Grade Families,

The weather is getting cooler, soccer, football, and other fall activities are in full swing.  Miss Garcia and I are loving that our second graders are in their school routine.

Math

Last week in math our focus was to continue renaming 3-digit numbers.  This is challenging concept but the 2nd students are beginning to be pros.  It has taken a lot of work with manipulatives and working with partners but I believe we have it!!  Here is an example of a few of the combinations students could come up with.  We will continue to work on this skill daily just to be sure that all students have a firm understanding of it!

375
Hundreds	Tens	Ones
3	7	5
3	6	15
2	17	5
2	16	15

Along with renaming we continued to work with writing numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded form and comparing 3-digit numbers using <, >, and =.

Math Homework

Monday	IXL M.6  Place Value Up to 100
Tuesday	IXL B.1   Comparing Numbers Up to 100
Wednesday	IXL B. 3  Put Numbers in Order Up to 100
Thursday	No Homework--2nd grade will have an assessment.

  Language

We finished our Tree Maps to help us see the different ways to make singular nouns (names one person, place, or thing) into plural nouns (names more than one person, place, or thing).  As we make nouns plural, students are learning about the irregular forms of plural nouns, which include changing the “y” to an “i” and add “es” (cherry = cherries), adding “es” (lunch = lunches), and changing the “f” to a “ves” (scarf = scarves).  This week we will work with irregular nouns such as child-children, tooth-teeth, goose-geese etc.

Writing

Our work on our “Who Am I?” is continuing.  Students have created their rough drafts and will work on revising and editing this week.  Miss Garcia and myself are sure learning a lot about our second graders.  

Projects

Second grade students have been working on our first project--Tribes in Action.  During the first 4 weeks of school we worked on learning about the Tribes Agreements--Attentive Listening, Mutual Respect, Appreciations/No Put-Downs, and Right to Pass.  This week students will pick their groups and begin (as a group) writing their Reader’s Theater.

Loving Learning,

Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia