Important dates:
Nov. 21: Multi-cultural Feast at lunchtime (Please look over the note sent home earlier)
Nov. 23: ½ day, dismissal at 12:30
Nov. 24-25: Thanksgiving Break
It was great seeing you at conferences. I'm looking forward to a wonderful year with your kids.
*Please note that next week we will not have a newsletter due to the Holiday and the short week.
Language Arts:
In reading
we
continued reading our Book Club book, "The Name Jar," reading in small groups and discussing the book. Our focus has been on retelling, but the discussions have been rich with empathy and lots of questions. Please ask your child what this book is about. It's such a great book to go along with our PBL unit which focuses on diversity and new students and accepting similarities and differences.
Word Work: We are focusing on the "oo" sounds and we'll continue next week sorting and working with words with the oo pattern.
In writing t
his week we introduced blogging! Students learned about what a blog is and began creating
paper blogs. Next week we'll learn about how to comment appropriately on
other students' blogs
. Soon, we will start to practice logging on and writing a blog online. Blogging is a great way for students to practice writing because they love to write to a bigger audience. Eventually, students will be able to blog from home and share their blog posts with our entire class! Please do not log in to KidBlog yet at home, as we want to teach digital safety first.
Students are continuing to work
on subtraction strategies
completing lessons 3.5-3.6. We learned when to count up or count back for a subtraction problem, and the -0 and -1 strategy. Some children still need to practice the counting up strategy, drawing an open number line and showing the hops for counting up and finding the difference. They also need to be able to explain why they choose to count up or count back when solving a subtraction problem. Next week we'll begin to learn about "What's my Rule?" tables.
Remember to practice math skills using the Home Links, Everyday Math online and IXL.
Practice at home:
Ask your child when to count up and count back. Give them a math problem and have them explain it through writing. Please be sure to practice basic math skills, such as counting change, counting above 100, telling time and explaining the strategies they use to solve math problems. I sent the Home Links as well as the review for the test home previously. Yesterday I sent home the answer pages to the Home Links because I noticed it wasn't on the Home Links pages.
PBL: This week students brainstormed interview questions to ask students who are new to Deerfield or did not speak English when they came here. Students are trying to stand in their shoes and figure out a way to make new students feel comfortable in the classroom. They began interviewing students using the questions that they wrote, based on our Driving Question: How can we make our new students feel welcome in our school and community? We can't wait to see what they come up with!
Coats: The weather will be colder next week! Remind your children to wear their coats! Also, please be sure to mark everything with your child's name. This makes it easier to get a lost item back to its owner.
Have a great weekend
and a great Thanksgiving,
The Second Grade Teachers
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