What’s up in second grade…
Welcome to 2nd Grade!
Conferences are coming. Regular conferences are scheduled for Tuesday, November 7th. If you have not scheduled a conference with your child's teacher, please send her an email to arrange one.
*Please continue to send in notes when your child is attending an after school club.
**Each student is being asked to bring in an empty cereal box for a project we will be doing in social studies. Please send in your box by October 19th.
What are we doing over the next two weeks?
Reading: We will be reading, writing, making words, and listening to stories with stamina. We will continue to use the comprehension skills of Predicting, Making Connections, and Visualizing. As your child reads each night ask him/her to connect events from the story to events that have happened in real life. Stop at suspenseful parts of a book or movie and have your child predict what will happen next.
Reading groups are in full routine right now. Students are reading books at their levels, practicing decoding skills, and discussing comprehension skills in small groups.
Writing: As writers, the students are learning about sticking to one topic. They are writing a topic sentence and adding details that support the topic. Editing skills such as COPS (Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, and Spelling) and grammar rules will be taught and reviewed in whole group lessons. Students will conference with their teachers as they write.
Math: Unit 2 is Geometry. In this unit, students willIdentify, describe, compare, and contrast plane and solid figures (circles/spheres, squares/cubes, and rectangles/rectangular prisms). They will find and recognize lines of symmetry in a shape. Please continue to review facts so students have fluency with addition and subtraction for facts to 20. They will continue to focus on solving single-step and two-step practical problems involving addition and subtraction.
Social Studies: Our current unit is Famous Americans and Explorers. In this unit the student will describe how the contributions of selected individuals changed the lives of Americans with emphasis on Christopher Columbus, Helen Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King JR, Abraham Lincoln, Thurgood Marshall, George Washington Carver, and Cesar Chavez.They will describe why United States citizens celebrate major holidays including Martin Luther King’s Birthday, President’s Day, and Columbus Day.
Dates to Remember:
October 16th- 20th Bullying Prevention Spirit Days
November 6th- No School-Teacher Workday
November 7th- Fall Conferences-No School for students
November10th-No School Veteran's Day