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.
We have had an amazing week in the 2/3 community!
This Week: Reading - This week in reading the students continued to practice making text-to–self connections using the story Jamaica Tag Along. The students answered questions to understand key details and important ideas in a story. The students used “Think Pair Share” to discuss the story’s message with their partners. Finally, during independent reading the students were introduced to the skill of self-monitoring. The students are learning how to monitor if a book is “Just Right” for them. As the students are reading independently they ask themselves three questions: What is happening in my book? Can I understand what I am reading? Can I read most of the words? If the students are able to answer these, questions then the book is “Just Right”. The expectation is that students are able to read quietly for up to 20 minutes. Vocabulary – This week the students learned hurl, pester, glare, and overalls from Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings. We also reviewed compassionate, content, familiar, fearful, and fearless from previous stories. Word Work- This week in word work the students reviewed the spellings of the long e sound. Book Clubs started for all of our students. Each student is placed into a book club to meet their individual needs as a reader. Finally, the students practiced working in a responsible way while completing three rotations during independent work: writing, reading, and word work. Writing –This week in writing the students learned how authors can add descriptive words to help the reader imagine what is happening in a story. The students listened to the story Night in the Country for inspiration. The students then practiced adding “seeing” and “hearing” words to one of their own stories. The students also continued using the strategy of making lists to get inspiration for a story. Finally, the students learned that a complete sentence has two parts: who and what happens. The students practiced writing complete sentences and correcting incomplete sentences. The students also reviewed beginning a sentence with a capital letter and end a sentence with a period. Math - This week in math the students learned and practiced the patterns counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. The students discovered that the first digit of a 2-digit number designates the number of 10s and the second digit designates the number of 1s. Using this understanding, the students developed strategies for solving problems about 10s and 1s. The students also practiced solving comparison story problems by determining if there is enough of something for a group of people. (For example, a picnic basket contains 30 sandwiches for 24 people. Will there be enough? Will there be any extras? Do you need more? How many more?) The students practiced identifying and using coin equivalencies by combining coins to a total of 50 cents. Finally, the students continued to develop fluency with addition and subtraction within 20. Next Week : Reading – Next week the students will learn the vocabulary words from Jamaica Tag Along. Word Work- Next the students will read, spell, and sort words with the long u sound. Writing – Next week the students will continue to practice using lists as a strategy for inspiring their writing. Math – Next week the students will develop strategies for solving addition and subtraction story problems. Continue To Practice:
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