Reminders:
No school Monday, November 22 - Friday, November 26, 2021.
There are many reasons students are absent. We appreciate you following the schoolwide expectations for when to keep your children home in order to support the health and wellbeing of our community! If your child is home, and you would like work for them, please have them:
Lexia
Dreambox
Draw a picture & write about it!
Play a card game such as Make the Sum or Trash.
Count a container of coins.
Math: This week, second grade mathematicians began measuring using unifix cubes. Students are helping Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk measure! At this point in second grade, we focus on measuring in nonstandard units to practice how to measure. It is important for students to be precise when they measure! Later in the year, we will transition to standard units of measure. In this way, students practice measuring before they apply this to understanding the concept of standard measurements such as inches, feet and yards.
Reading: Our second graders certainly are powering up as they learn next level word solving skills! This week, we continued to work with syllable types. Second graders have now learned all five syllable types: closed, vowel-consonant-e, r-controlled, ‘D’ Syllable (vowel teams), and open.
Word Study: Our seconders finished unit 2 of word study earlier this week and have begun our third unit. This week they learned about the closed syllable exceptions -ild, -ind, -old, -ost, olt. These glued sounds look like closed syllables but they often do not follow the pattern. Rather than making short vowel sounds these closed syllable exceptions make a long vowel sound. Students practiced building, writing, marking, and reading words that contained closed syllable exceptions.
Writing: This week our second grade writers focused on writing conventions including capitalization, punctuation, and quotation marks. We worked on capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, proper nouns, the word I, and titles of books, movies, and tv shows. With this knowledge, we searched to correct sentences that needed capitals or had capitals in incorrect places. Our second graders also practiced using the punctuation heros (periods, question marks, exclamation points and commas) properly in various sentences. “Guess what?” said the second grade squad, “We also started working on when and how to use quotation marks to show dialogue in our writing!” Keep an eye out for these amazing skills!
Science: During science this week second grade scientists were able to complete their observations of the household substances that their teacher used to make the mystery mixtures. Students used data collection sheets to record their observations and describe the properties of each substance. Our young scientists even began using what they discovered to make predictions about what could have been used to make “Mixture A” and “Mixture B”. Stay tuned for what we will discover about the mystery mixtures next week!
SEL/Theme: This week second graders began a new unit in the Second Step program. This unit focuses on empathy. The first lesson focused on identifying feelings. Students practiced focusing their attention and learned specific ways to be good listeners. We watched a short video and practiced noticing the characters' facial expressions, their body language, and the situation to determine what they were feeling. Focusing-attention and listening skills help students get along with one another and in their learning.
Project: On Friday we enjoyed a morning "crafternoon" as a class. Each second grader made their own colorful fall pumpkin to display in our hallway. Their previous fall tree project will be sent home in their take-home folder.
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