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.
Dear Families,
We have had a busy week in the 2/3 Community. Flu Shot information and permission forms were sent home on Wednesday, August 23, 2017. The CDC is recommending that the flu shot be used instead of the flu mist so that it is more effective against the flu virus. If you would like for your child to participate in this program, please indicate on the permission slip. If you would prefer to have your pediatrician administer the flu vaccine, please mark no on the permission slip. The teachers must keep track of who is/is not participating. Please return the permission slips as soon as possible. We appreciate your help with this. Finally, a book order form from Scholastic was sent home in your child’s folder on Friday. This is a fun way to provide interesting books for reading at home. For each book ordered our community earns points for free books that we can put into our 2/3 library, order classroom sets of books for student book clubs, and provide a free book for each child that reads 1,000 minutes on their reading journals which will begin after our Elementary open house. The Scholastic website is https://clubs.scholastic.com/ Our code is GQQN8. Thank you again for your support. Have a restful weekend. 2nd Grade Teachers J Dates To Remember: Wacky Wednesday August 3oth 2/3 Community Cardboard Arcade Friday, September 1st from 12:00-12:45 Elementary Open House Thursday, September 7th from 5:30-6:30pm Reading: This week in reading we continued to build our reading community by sharing our reading lives, learning the procedures for “Turn to Your Partner” and IDR, working in a responsible way, listening respectfully to the thinking of others, and sharing our own thinking. The students learned how to make text-to-self connections and considered the different characters’ feeling and points of view when listening to the story Sheila Rae the Brave. Vocabulary: This week we learned the words tumble, swirl, compassionate, and content from the story McDuff Moves In. Word Study: This week the students continued to learn the procedures for Being A Reader workshops. The students learned how to choose and share books from the reading bins, to read independently for 10 to 15 minutes, write independently for 5-10 minutes, play memory and goldfish with high frequency word cards, use quiet voices, and put materials away upon hearing the cleanup signal. Writing: This week in writing we continued to build our writing community by practicing the procedure for “Turn to Your Partner”, working in a responsible way, listening respectfully to the thinking of others, and sharing their own thinking. We continued our focus on how authors use drawings to generate writing ideas and to write about their drawings. We read Big Mama by Donald Crews who gets his inspiration by sketching pictures. The students then sketched their own pictures and wrote stories about them. Math: This week in math the students compared analog and digital clocks. The students practiced telling time to the hour using our class analog clock. The students also learned strategies for adding three and four single numbers. The students practiced these strategies by solving number strings and playing the game “Five in a Row with Four Cards”. Next Week: Reading: Students will learn the vocabulary from Sheila Rae the Brave. Word Work: The students will learn to read and spell words with the long o sound. Writing: The students will explore using descriptive words in their writing, Math: The students will continue learning strategies to add and subtract.
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