Ask your child if they have earned any special STAR tickets in the school for good behavior in the hallway, playground, restroom, or cafeteria! These tickets are given out by all staff members to students who are doing an exemplary job of showing good behavior in public areas. Please see the picture below to see what your child may earn for getting STAR tickets! We are working hard on showing good STAR behavior to try to earn individual tickets from other teachers!
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September 2014
Welcome Back!
Hello! We hope everyone had a wonderful and restful break:) Here is what we will be working on this week.
Reading- We are continuing to focus on asking and answering questions. We will be working on asking and answering questions with informational text this week. When you read with your child at home, stop throughout the text and ask your child if they are wondering anything or if they have any questions. They may ask questions about words they don't know, why an event happened, or what might happen next. After reading the text, ask you child questions about what you read together. Try to ask some higher thinking questions. For example, "How do you think the character felt when ________?"
Writing- We will be continuing to work on narrative writing. The students are using a graphic organizer that will assist them with their narrative. The narrative should inclue a bold beginning, a mighty middle, and an excellent ending. Ask you child what should be included in each of those parts of the narrative!
Math- We are moving on from place value to addition. We will focus on fact families Monday and Tuesday. Students should understand that the largest number in a number family has to be the sum in addition. When we subtract, the largest number has to be the first number in the number sentence. Later in the week, we will be reviewing the mental addition strategies that we learned earlier in the year! At home, please have your child practice using these mental strategies when they practice their addition facts. If you need an explanation of the strategies, there is link on the right side of the blog that explains all 2nd grade math strategies:) You may also click here to watch an explanation of the strategies that we use to teach the basic facts. We will continue to review place value in guided math groups.
Words Their Way-We will begin Words their way this week. A list of the words will come home in the agenda. Please review these nightly. We will have a dictation test when we finish the unit. I will let you know in advance when that will be.
Important Events
October 2- Title I “Wild for Problem Solving” Family Math Night 6:00 / Cafeteria
Question of the Week: What is the sum of 4 + 8? Explain the strategy that you used!
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This week
Hello Parents and Students! I hope everyone had a restful weekend! Here is what's happening this week.
Reading-We are going to continue to work on questioning. According to the standards, students should ask and answer who, what, when, where, why and how questions about the books that they are reading. When you read with your child at home, have them ask questions before you read the book, during the reading, and after the reading. Also, ask your students questions, and have them locate the answers to these questions.
Writing- Last week we took time to review complete and incomplete sentences. Students learned the five things that a sentence has to have to be complete. We learned a song to help us remember those five things. Ask your child to sing you the sentence jingle. This week we will begin our personal narratives. Ask your child what their topic for their personal narrative is. This should be something they actually happened to them! We are not writing fictional narratives just yet!
Math-Today we are going to assess where we are on place value. We will give the students a quick assessment. The assessment will be used to create and plan our guided math groups for the rest of the week.
We will be going to library Thursday at 1:15. Please make sure your child returns their library books that day!
Remember: September 15-19 is Fall Break! We will not have school that week! Enjoy!!!
Question of the Week: What are the five parts of a complete sentence? Write a complete sentence about something you learned at school today.
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