Reminders:
We try to go out daily. Please ensure your child has weather appropriate clothing and footwear, daily.
Please make sure your child knows if they are school or home snack & lunch. This week we had quite a few students tell us they were home lunchers only to discover at lunch time they were school lunchers!
Our community is finally physically together! It has been wonderful to welcome all of our second graders each day. We worked hard this week.
Second grade mathematicians continue to work with numbers flexibly and meaningfully. This week, they worked with the core ideas:
I can find multiple combinations of a number and write equations that match.
I can subtract to find the difference between two numbers.
I can describe the difference between two numbers using equations.
As writers, students continue to study the craft of masterful authors. Writers began to study how author’s write satisfying endings. Students studied well-loved books and brainstormed craft moves. We then tried out different endings, orally, with our writing partners.
Second graders began learning about revising and editing. In second grade, revising applies to the content of our writing. This includes our word choices, stretching out moments, zooming in and writing with detail, crafting powerful beginnings and endings. Revision focuses on content. Editing refers to the conventions of written language; including punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure and spelling. When second graders edit, they are acting like real world editors. Their sole focus is on language conventions. In the writing world, these two jobs are different. We emulate that in our second grade community.
This week’s word study included practice with closed syllables, the bonus letter pattern, and glued sounds. Students also worked with the snap words both, walk & talk.
In reading, students continue to focus on characters. This week, we had a blast bringing our characters to life! Readers get to know their characters so well, they begin to sound like their characters. Readers expect a character’s feelings to change across the story. When feelings change, readers change their reading voices to show each new feeling. Readers also use the author’s clues to bring the characters to life. Students studied books with the Inquiry Question: What clues do authors leave that readers can use to bring characters to life?
Our theme this week was community building. Students continued to take care of themselves, others, and this place while living the second grade mantra: We are all the same. We are all different. We are all unique. Second graders also earned their second penny celebration! They enjoyed watching Shaun the Sheep.
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