1/13/13

Post date: Jan 14, 2013 5:2:44 AM

Second Grade Newsletter

1/13/13

We hope you had a great time with your children over the break! We also hope that you enjoyed your soda that they made for you. On the Twitter account is a little slideshow from Animoto showing how it was made and the fun we had doing it.

We will be moving our Monday content bags and Math bag check out to Fridays since that is when Mrs. Olsten can do it. We hope that this doesn’t confuse you. Just so you know we are wanting the students to log onto the 2nd Grade Website and blog about their bag that they have for the week. It is really a good way for some extra reading and writing without them even realizing it.

This week we will also get out to you a Genius Sign Up for conferences the first week in Feb.

Science –

-impact of the animals within that environment(focusing on humans)

-construct an explanation about the effect of environmental changes on the survival of plants and animals

-obtain and share information how landforms provide homes for living things

-observe and compare the many kinds of living things that are found in different areas

-analyze a habitat

Technology-

-Waterford Reading/Science/Math Program

-IXL

-EduCreations

-Pebble Go

-Brain Pop Jr.

-Google Site Development

-iPod math games

-Publish writing using MS Word

-Everyday Math Games

-National Geographic for Kids

-TCI

Engineering

Pulleys

-To change the orientation of a pulling force

-To change direction of roation

-To change the orientation of a rotating movement

-To increase a pulling force

-To increase or decrease the speed of rotation

-To increase turning force, also called torque

Math

-Unit 6 Assessment

-Unit 7

STEM Success “Lynx”

We had a very successful our first week back and our first week in 2013...GO STEM!!!

How can you help?!?!

Sign up this week for a conference time. We will email them out soon!

Serving You,

The Second Grade Team