Upcoming Important Dates to Notes:
- Spring Dance Performance - Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16
- Family Ancestry projects due - Monday, May 18 (shared throughout the week)
- Grade 2 Publishing Party - Thursday, May 21 @ 2:15 PM
- Free Dress - Friday, May 22
- Memorial Day - Monday, May 25 - No School
- Last Day of Spring Term/ Grade 1 - 8 Olympics/Class party - Thursday, May 28
With Spirit Day, spring dance rehearsals, as well as getting ready for our ancestry projects, and Publishing Party, we have been extremely busy and productive in second grade! Though we are wrapping up a fantastic school year, we are utilizing and enjoying every last opportunity for learning, discovery, and fun together!
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
- Reading and choosing "just right" books and practicing habits and skills of good readers: rereading, visualizing, questioning, making connections, predicting, inferring, retelling, and summarizing; comprehension and fluency check-ins; keeping a reading journal and log
- Writing Workshop - illustrating and practicing stories to be shared at Publishing Party
- Peer and teacher conferencing and editing
- Super Star: Friendly letter writing
- Spelling - assessment of Fry words 101 -200; Words Their Way spelling development assessment
- Fluency and comprehension assessment
- Writing assessment
- Lexia: Computer program practice and skill builder practice (paper/pencil)
- Handwriting Without Tears: spacing words and practice
- Read Aloud: The B.F.G. by Roald Dahl;
- Literature Discussion with Mrs. Pieken
Singapore Math
- Geometry
- Telling Time
- Capacity
- Graphing
- Fact Fluency
- Math Challenges and Problem Solving
- Big Brainz - math fluency practice
- Kakooma math puzzles
- Math Tiles - Money Tiles; Cost Tiles; Count By Tiles
Science
- Owl pellet bones: investigation, identification and recording in journal
- Inventions:
Social/Emotional
- Meditation: Going within yourself
- Processing our tools in the Toolbox
History/Social Studies
- Review of rubric and expectations for Ancestry Project