Upcoming dates:
Announcements and Reminders:
Parent/Teacher Conferences: We look forward to sharing your Grade 2 student's learning progress and setting goals in our conferences on Friday and Saturday, October 17 & 18. Please remember that our scheduled time for conferences is 20 minutes. We appreciate your timeliness, patience, and understanding. Our goal is to spend enough time with each family to review your child's progress and to set goals for the school year.
This Week in Second Grade:
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
Literature Discussion with Mrs. Peiken
Handwriting Without Tears
Singapore Math
Science
Social Cognition and Toolbox
- Toolbox Parent Night - Tuesday, September 30
- Green and White Day / Spirit Rally @ 1:30 (C Schedule)- Friday, October 3
- Homecoming Weekend - October 3 - 5
- Run In The Forest - Saturday, October 4
- Parent/Teacher Goal Setting Conferences- Friday & Saturday, October 17 & 18
- No Classes -Monday, October 20
- Free Dress - Friday, October 24
- Halloween Carnival - Friday, October 31
- Day Light Savings Ends - Sunday, November 2
- Veterans Day (classes in session) -Tuesday, November 11
- Free Dress - Friday, November 14
- Canned Food Drive begins - November 17
- Grandparents and Special Friends Day; Last Day of Fall Term- Friday, November 21
- Thanksgiving Break - November 22 - 30
- First Day of Winter Term: Monday, December 1
Announcements and Reminders:
Parent/Teacher Conferences: We look forward to sharing your Grade 2 student's learning progress and setting goals in our conferences on Friday and Saturday, October 17 & 18. Please remember that our scheduled time for conferences is 20 minutes. We appreciate your timeliness, patience, and understanding. Our goal is to spend enough time with each family to review your child's progress and to set goals for the school year.
This Week in Second Grade:
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
- Reading Workshop/Independent Reading -reading and choosing "just right" books; practicing fluency; practicing habits of good readers; keeping a reading journal
- Lexia practice
- Spelling/Fundations: Tapping out sounds to decode; blends and digraphs; digraph blends; closed syllable rules
- Writing Workshop: The writing process; drafting small moment/personal narrative store; revising
- Friendly Letter writing: the elements of a friendly letter; writing a friendly letter to our Super Star
- Read Aloud: The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Literature Discussion with Mrs. Peiken
- How the Crocodile Was Fooled- group read and discussion
Handwriting Without Tears
- Starting Corner Capitals ( H, K, L, U, V, W, X, Y, Z) and Center Starting Capitals (C, O, Q, G, S, A, I, T, J)
Singapore Math
- Difference - comparing quantities in two sets using subtraction; relating "more than" and "less than" to addition and subtraction
- Mental Math Review - review addition and subtraction of one-digit and two-digit numbers, using mental calculations, where renaming does not occur using math tools - place value discs and white boards
- Review of mental addition and subtraction - breaking apart numbers - tens & ones
- Word Problems - solving word problems involving addition and subtraction within 100.
- Math Challenges and Problem Solving
- Math Tiles - Addition and Subtraction Balance Tiles; Add-A-Dot Tiles; Tens and Ones Place Value Tiles
- Kakooma Math Puzzles
Science
- Engineering - Cantilever tests and graphing results
- Engineering design challenge - build cantilever bridge with only two vertical planks for support
- Problem solving within cooperative groups
Social Cognition and Toolbox
- Practicing Toolbox and "using your tools"
- Practicing "Whole Body Listening" (Connecting with eyes, ears, brain, and heart to listen to speaker)
- Read Aloud books reflecting on social thinking: Whole Body Listening Larry
- Social Thinking: Unthinkables and Thinkables