2nd Grade Weekly Newsletter
Each newsletter describes what your child has been learning in school, what they will be learning the following week, and homework assignments your child will be receiving.
A few dates to remember as we look forward to next week.
This Week: Reading – In reading this week the students continued to work on wondering to better understand their stories. The students practiced wondering during independent reading. Finally, the students shared their wonderings through journal writing and with their partners. Vocabulary – This week in vocabulary the students learned host, hospitality, gratitude, and overjoyed from The Paper Crane. The students also reviewed the words chaos, notorious, expert, fearful, and eavesdropper from previous stories. Word Study- In word study this week the students learned strategies for dividing two and three syllable words. If a two syllable word has only one consonant, such as detail or retell, the students learned to divide the words before the consonant, de-tail, re-tell. Using this strategy, the students practiced reading, sorting, and spelling multi-syllable words Writing – This week in writing the students began to explore nonfiction by listening to and discussing the book Kate and Pippin. This is a true story about an unlikely friendship between a dog named Kate and a young fawn named Pippin. The students use wonderings to help them to better understand the text. The students also used interview questions to learn more about their partners. Using the answers to these questions, the students wrote a narrative nonfiction story about their partners. Math- This week in math the students learned and practiced two strategies for adding two 2-digit numbers. The first strategy was adding the tens and ones to find the total. For example, 28 +35. First the students add 20 + 30 to get 50 and 8 + 5 to get 13. The students can then add 50 + 13 or 50 + 10 + 3 to get 63. The second strategy is drawing comparison models. For example, Jake has 35 stickers and Kira has 27 more stickers than Jake. How many stickers does Kira have? How many stickers do they have in all? First, the students draw a line indicating how Jake’s 35 stickers. Then a line showing Kira’s stickers. Using the comparison model the students can visualize what is happening in the story. Jake ______35_______________ Kira ______35_______________i________27_____ Kira has 35 + 27 or 30 + 20 = 50 and 5 + 7 + 12 so 50 + 10 + 2 = 62 stickers Jake and Kira have 35 + 62 or 30 + 60 = 90 and 5 + 2 = 7 so 90 + 7 = 97 stickers in all. Next Week: Reading – Next week in reading the students will learn the vocabulary for The Tale of Peter Rabbit and learn about the author Beatrix Potter. Word Study- Next week in word study the students will learn about the schwa sound. Writing – Next week the students will be learning how to write nonfiction stories. Math – Next week in math the students will continue learning and practicing strategies for adding two 2-digit numbers.
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