Weekly Update: August 28 to September 1

Weekly Update: August 28^th to September 1^st

· IXL: M.8 and M.9

· Please READ every night

· Study Spelling

Math- Number Concepts, lesson 1.6 is teaching students to decompose a 2-digit number. This is not an easy concept.

~~~Timed Tests: students must be fluent in basic math facts! PLEASE spend time practicing basic addition facts!

*This is the link to our class text book if you would like to check out what we are doing in class:

https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/math/gomath2015/na/gr2/student_edition_ebook_9780544348806_/html5/index.html

Math IXL for this week:

M.8 https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/convert-to-from-a-number-tens-and-ones

M.9 https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/regroup-tens-and-ones-ways-to-make-a-number

Social Studies: Each student had a class job. Students are learning the importance of all jobs in a community.

Language Arts:

Reading- This week our focus will be finding the Beginning/Middle/End in a story. We will continue our author study of Kevin Henkes.

Tip: The goal by the end of the school year is for your child to be comfortably reading at level L or M.

Please make reading with your children at home a priority this year!! It will make a world of difference in the years to come.

Writing-Our Narrative Writing unit is off to a great start. Students have begun writing about a personal memory. Students will also review and build upon the Writing Process they learned in previous years.

Grammar- We will study collective nouns, as in group, team, party, class, and crowd.

Spelling/Phonics- This week’s words have a short i vowel sound