Upcoming Important Dates to Notes:
- Spring Long Weekend - April 16 - 20
- Safety Moulage Drill - Tuesday, April 21
- Earth Day - April 22
- Free Dress - Friday, April 24
- Field Trip to Elkhorn Slough - Friday, April 24
- Scholastic Book Fair - April 27 - 30
- Spirit Day - May 8
- Spring Dance Keck Rehearsal - May 13-14
- Spring Dance Performance - Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16
- Grade 2 Publishing Party - Thursday, May 21 @ 2:15 PM
- Free Dress - Friday, May 22
- Memorial Day - Monday, May 25 - No School
- Last Day of Spring Term/ Grade 1 - 8 Olympics/Class party - Thursday, May 28
This Week in Second Grade
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
- Reading and choosing "just right" books and practicing habits and skills of good readers: rereading, visualizing, questioning, making connections, predicting, inferring, retelling, and summarizing; comprehension and fluency check-ins; keeping a reading journal and log
- Easter Mad Libs - review parts of speech
- Writing Workshop - continue the writing process for fairy tales
- Poetry - introduction to poetry unit; reading and browsing poetry
- Peer and teacher conferencing and editing
- Author Share of student published fairy tales
- Lexia: Computer program practice and skill builder practice (paper/pencil)
- Fundations: fluency practice and syllable division; when to use c, k, or ck to spell /k/
- Handwriting Without Tears: corrections and practice
- Read Aloud: The B.F.G. by Roald Dahl
- Literature Discussion with Mrs. Pieken
Singapore Math
- Multiplication and Division of 4, 5, and 10
- Division with remainders
- Review
- Money - Combining dollars and cents
- Forming equivalent values (coins/bills)
- Learning to add money
- Fact Fluency (number bonds) and Mental Math practice
- Using a math journal to record rules, strategies and problems
- Math Challenges and Problem Solving
- Big Brainz - math fluency practice
- Kakooma math puzzles
- Math Tiles - Money Tiles; Cost Tiles; Count By Tiles
Science
- Notebook organization
- Saving Otter 501 -viewing and discussion
- Small group reading and discussion: The Adventures of Phokey, The Sea Otter
- Elkhorn Slough - introduction of habitat/ecosystem and history
"Spring"
- Discussion: symbolism of new life and fresh beginnings around the world
- hatching chick project
Social/Emotional
- Meditation: Going within yourself
- Toolbox - discussing Personal Space and Patience tools to use at home and school
- Read Aloud: The Magic of Patience
History/Social Studies
- Cesar Chavez: students watched animated video on his life
- Read aloud: Cesar Chavez
- Discussion - the importance and impact he made, especially in our local community