Dear Families,
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We had a fabulous week in school! Here are some highlights from our week.
Important dates:
· Monday, January 9th: Students/Staff Return from Break
· Tuesday, January 10th: Jump Rope for Heart Kick-off
· Monday, January 16th: No School MLK Day
· Thursday, January 19th: Multicultural Night @ 6:00 pm
· Friday, January 27th: Half Day of School, Sharpen the Saw Day
Reading:
This past week we taught the students Reciprocal Teaching. This is a format which gives students a framework to hold a book club in a small group. We modeled the procedure in class with the whole group. During Reciprocal teaching, we focus on the following reading strategies: Questioning, Monitor and Clarify, Predicting, and Summarizing. We will start book clubs during teacher time starting next week.
Word Work:
This week we worked on reviewing some of the word patterns that we've been focusing on throughout our long vowel pattern study. Stay tuned, as we will soon begin “Wordly Wise”. This is a program which helps students expand his/her vocabulary which is used in the upper grades, as well.
Writing: This week, we worked on our realistic fiction pieces. The students were given a checklist to follow when writing his/her story. We will be using this piece to help us mark our next report card coming soon! Ask your child about the story he/she started.
Math: We are in the process of sending home our math journal 1 which includes units 1 through 4. Please be sure to read the attached school note on the math journal. We also started unit 5 this past week and completed through lesson 3 if you are following along with the homelinks. One important skill in this unit is making change. This is very difficult especially if your child doesn't know how to count change. It would be beneficial to practice counting change and counting back change at home.
Counting Change Math Games
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Here are some example problems for you:
Mary bought a muffin for 32 cents. She paid the cashier 50 cents. How much change?
Jeff bought a muffin for $1.32. He paid the cashier $5. How much change?
We teach the children to count up on a number grid which really helps give the students a visual. You can find free number grids online! Thanks for your help at home.
We'll keep practicing at school also!
Social Studies: We started our next social studies unit which is "How do communities change?" We will be focusing on the following questions:
How do historians study the past?
How can an individual impact history?
How do communities change over time?
We had some interesting artifacts that we looked at last week, ask your child about them. We have a special guest coming in next week to help us to learn about our community's past!
Also, we are asking your child's grandparent to write him/her a letter to about the past (see letter that was sent home on Friday in your child's folder). We would like your child's grandparent to write and send the letter to YOUR CHILD'S TEACHER HERE AT SCHOOL by Friday, January 27th so that we may share them with the students. We will return the letters after our unit so you can save them for a keepsake.
Character Trait of the Month: Responsibility
The homework was sent home earlier in the week and is also attached for you. Please continue to talk about these traits at home and we will do the same here at school!
Inside recess!
Inside recess!
Winter Gear: Please be sure to label snow pants, boots, and coats with your child's name. We know this is hard to believe, but many children don't recognize their own clothing! We also have about 15 pairs of black boots!
More math games!
Have a great weekend!
The Second Grade Teachers
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