Welcome to 2nd Grade!
Upcoming Dates
December 2-13--L2 Winter Clothing Drive
December 6th--Scholastic Book orders due!
December 9th--201 to Holiday Shop
December 11th--Winter Wonderland
December 11th-Math Quiz (4.1-4.4)
December 13th--Reading, Spelling quizzes
December 16th--Reading NWEA
December 18th--Math NWEA
December 20th--Winter Party
December 23-Jan 1--Winter Vacation
January 2nd--Back to school!
*Scholastic Class Activation Code: H39HV Feel free to order books online at any point!
Specials
Monday - PE
Tuesday - PE
Wednesday - Art
Thursday - Library/Technology
Friday - PE
Monday - Thursday specials are from 10:00 - 11:00. Friday's special is 1:45-2:45.
Recess/Lunch is from 11:45-12:30.
We will have snack time daily around 9:45 am. Please send a healthy NUT FREE snack (no chips, candy, cookies, etc.) Some good options include a cheese stick, any fruit or veggie, a small portion of cheese and crackers, seeds, applesauce pouch, sunbutter with apple slices or celery sticks, yogurt, etc. Please keep in mind that this is NOT lunch or a complete meal, but just a quick snack. I will not be providing snacks. Thanks!
Social Emotional Learning
We will be learning to identify and discuss our feelings and emotions.
SEL Theme of the Month: Strong Communication!
Keys to strong communication:
be positive
speak clearly
explain how you feel
listen as much as you speak
be polite
use kind words
Reading
Students are expected to read for 20 minutes nightly. Grammar, phonics and spelling are based on Scott Foresman's Reading Street. I integrate this with a Readers' Workshop--Reading is Thinking!
Students are expected to read for 20 minutes nightly.
Spelling Words
(plurals)
lunch
stories
switch
babies
lunches
tune
switches
note
story
tunes
baby
notes
Challenge Words:
partnership
struggle
familiar
solution
High Frequency Words
(practice reading!)
bought
probably
sign
people
scared
pleasant
shall
Skills and Strategies
-cause and effect (ixl T1, T2)
-strategies to infer the meaning of unknown words
-plural nouns (IXL PP8)
enVision Math
Topic 4
Fluently Add Within 100
4-1 Add with partial Sums
4-2 Continue to Add With Partial Sums
4-3 Models to Add 2-Digit Numbers
4-4 Add 2-Digit Numbers
4-5 Add More Than Two 2-Digit Numbers
4-6 Practice Adding
4-7 Solve One-Step and Two-Step Problems
4-8 Problem Solving: Model With Math
Foss Science--Balance and Motion
Science is very hands on in second grade. Even though you may not see a lot of science papers come home, we are learning every day!
Focus Questions:
How can objects balance?
What is a counterweight?
What is a force?
Social Science
Unit 1--Neighborhoods Today
Chapter 4: Neighborhoods of Early America
Vocabulary: continent, globe
Writing
We are learning to write letters to our pen pals!
We are learning about writing narratives.
We will practice using proper capitalization, punctuation and spacing.
We will learn how to respond to our reading in our writing notebooks.
Check back often as new items will be added!
Thank you for supporting our classroom.
Math Practice Websites:
http://www.coolmath.com/0-cool-math-games-and-problems
http://www.mathplayground.com/
http://www.mathabc.com/
http://www.ixl.com
http://www.xtramath.org
Language Arts Practice Websites:
http://www.abcya.com/
http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.ixl.com
http://www.readtheory.org