2nd Grade
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March 8th, 2024
2nd Grade News
Dear Parents,
we hope you are happy enjoying your children' s progress. We are starting the last Trimester of the 2nd Grade with lots of activities and new learning. In Reading our Tigers will finish their Fiction Unit and will celebrate their reading time they shared with Club Members. In Math our mathematicians will use the 1000 plastic chain they created to measure and also solve some broken chain problems. If you did not get a chance to come to Student Led Conferences make sure you write to your teacher and ask for a meeting to discuss your child's success. We can meet any day between 8:30 and 9:00.
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
Fiction Readers will start the last bend of this Unit. They'll return to all the skills and the methods that our students have been learning all year, and in addition work extra hard to encourage children’s discussions as they engage in fiction book clubs.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
English Literacy: Readers can study the following charts that might work as a guide during their independent reading book club time.
Phonics: Next week, students will learn that all vowels can sometimes make the /uh/ sound by studying a snap word, the, and a long BLC word. They will also celebrate the end of unit 3, Word builders, by making a small presentation in class showing the skills learned in class about being a word builder.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
English Literacy: Readers can study the following charts that might work as a guide during their independent reading book club time. Story elements chart. What makes club go well. Predictable book club topic. Bringing yourself to a discussion character chart.
Phonics: sort the following words into 2 columns based on vowels that sound as expected and vowels theat make the /uh/ sound: teamate, agree, oven, mountain, window, contain, explain, ocean, goat, sofa, invite, some.
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Estudiantes aprenden a escribir informes de laboratorios
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Los escritores científicos estudian a otros escritores científicos y aprenden a
escribir resultados, conclusiones y utilizan el lenguaje científico. Luego, terminan
su primer informe de laboratorio de forma independiente siguiendo el paso a paso
de la semana anterior. Finalizando la semana auto-evaluándose con la lista de
verificación de textos informativos, para reflexionar sobre lo que ya están haciendo
y lo que necesitan mejorar, escribiendo un objetivo para crecer como escritores científicos
de informes de laboratorio.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Escritores en casa:
Estudiantes de manera independiente escriben su primer informe de laboratorio.
Necesitan los siguientes materiales:
Rampa (pueden utilizar para diseñar una libros, cartón, trozo de madera, tabla para escribir)
Un objeto (pelotas, cilindros, botellas, pequeñas rocas etc)
Regla o centímetro para medir
Informe de laboratorio (con las primeras 5 páginas previamente listas, solo para escribir las pruebas.
Después del experimento:
Analizan resultados y conclusiones, respondiendo a las preguntas:
¿Qué pasó en el experimento?, ?¿Qué datos parecen importantes?, ¿Por qué el objeto recorre más distancia sobre el piso y no sobre la alfombra? ¿Mi hipótesis fue correcta, si o no por qué? ?¿Qué sucede con la fuerza y el movimiento entre los objetos y ambas superficies? (alfombra y piso)
Revisan su informe de laboratorio con la lista de verificación, escriben un objetivo. (algo que necesitar agregar o mejorar)
Cartel de estrategias
Ejemplo de informe
Lista de verificación
Formato de hoja
Mural de palabras científicas
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Tigers will demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 3 digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens and ones. They will also read and write numbers to 1000.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Students and teacher will work together to measure distances using the 1000 clip chain we made the other day, then they will break it into smaller sections and measure around the class. After we will solve some broken chain problems. then we will go from chain to number line.
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
What tigers are doing at school...
Next week, we will swtich from social studies to science and start a new unit about Bodies of water. Students will be looking at and analyzing all of the different landforms that we have in nicaragua. They will look at lakes, rivers, mountains, islands, beaches, canyons on a map and learn how to use the key of the map.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Draw 3 bodies of water and explain why they are important.
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
You know that teamwork means working together to complete something or to solve a problem. Good teamwork requires listening, cooperating, sharing ideas, and helping others.
What friends and learners are doing at school...
Use communication skills to make collaboration easier, more fun, and more productive.
Use teamwork to think of new ideas and do things I might not be able to do alone.
Listen to all ideas, share, and help others when I collaborate.
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
Think about another time that you had to communicate in a group. What made it go well?
You can use the Teamwork skills chart to have better communication.
CONNECT
Important Dates
Mar. 9
Tiger Fun Day
AASCA Swimming
Mar. 12-19
Math Relays
Mar. 15
Friday Feedback Folders sent home
Mar. 20
Early Dismissal
(11:00 a.m.)
Reminders
2A begins swimming class again. Please make sure to send a medical note in case your child can't do swimming class.
Please send healthy snacks, energetic drinks are NOT allowed, nor toys or candies.
Please label your child's belongings, sweaters and water bottles.
Special Announcements
March - Calendar
Swimming
Big Questions Day
Meet the Team!
Mrs. Valerie Wheelock
2A
Mrs. Dámaris Silva
2B
Mrs. Isamar Suárez
2C
Mrs. Ana Gabriela Bustos
Second Grade
Spanish Lead
Anacamila Zavala
2A Paraprofessional
Ana Abrego
2B Paraprofessional
José Ballengers
2C Paraprofessional
Mrs. Lizette Richardson
Second Grade
Inclusion Lead
Mayling Estrada
2nd Grade
Spanish Paraprofessional