Upcoming Dates
Art Show: May 6 - 7
Spring Dance Performance and Reception: May 16 - 17
Family Ancestry Projects Due: May 19 (see rubric/pictures below)
Grade 2 Publishing Party: Thursday, May 22
Memorial Day; No School: May 26
Olympics: Wednesday, May 28
Last day of school: Thursday, May 29
Popsicles after assembly
This week in the Ivy Nook
Social Emotional:
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment:
Singapore Math:
Mrs. Ford's Group:
Telling Time Before the Hour
Time Intervals
Other Units of Time (Days, Weeks, Months, Years)
Making Shapes
Patterns
Reading/Writing/Spelling:
Literature Discussion With Mrs. Peiken:
History:
Looking at past projects
Rubric Review
Science:
Gardening:
Handwriting:
Art Show: May 6 - 7
Spring Dance Performance and Reception: May 16 - 17
Family Ancestry Projects Due: May 19 (see rubric/pictures below)
Grade 2 Publishing Party: Thursday, May 22
Memorial Day; No School: May 26
Olympics: Wednesday, May 28
Last day of school: Thursday, May 29
Popsicles after assembly
This week in the Ivy Nook
Social Emotional:
- Using the Empathy Tool requires that:
- I understand how I am feeling.
- I put on hold my impulse to react.
- I say what I am feeling and/or listen empathetically to what the other person is saying.
- I act compassionately (with understanding and caring) based on how that person is feeling.
- Ask about special read-aloud - Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment:
- Organization of Dots (Analyzing relationships, planning and using information, exercising eye/hand coordination)
- Planning, inferring, and regulating perceptual conflicts
Singapore Math:
Mrs. Ford's Group:
- Unit 11 - Time
Telling Time Before the Hour
Time Intervals
Other Units of Time (Days, Weeks, Months, Years)
- Math Review
- Math Puzzles - Real World, Renaming and Count By
- Next week: Capacity
- Unit 13 - Geometry
Making Shapes
Patterns
- Mental Math
- Intensive Practice - Take the Challenge!
- Next week: Review 14
Reading/Writing/Spelling:
- Exploring Non-Fiction: Books about the Earth and Frogs
- Reading Workshop/Independent Reading: practice reading independently at "just right" level, with an emphasis on building stamina, journaling, building vocabulary, and completion of books.
- Teacher/student conferencing about reading; fluency checks and comprehension book talks
- Superstar and birthday letters
- Writing Workshop: Wrapping up Expert Books and choosing our masterpiece for Publishing Party!
- Peer and Teacher Conferencing (editing expert books)
- Read Aloud: My Father's Dragon
- Lexia practice
- Fundations - Reading fluency and review of marking words
Literature Discussion With Mrs. Peiken:
- Tortoise and the Hare (Play Format)
History:
- Family Ancestry/History
Looking at past projects
Rubric Review
Science:
- Digital Frog Dissection (iPad App)
- Frog Anatomy: Digestive and Respiratory Systems
- Frog Explorations
- Tadpole Observations
Gardening:
- Tending the garden
- Planting Corn
Handwriting:
- Letters P & I