Reminder:
Bring in recycled and found materials on Monday for creation of table centerpieces with Ms. Susan!
Upcoming Dates:
Spring Long Weekend: April 17 - April 21
Free Dress: Friday, April 25
Spring Carnival: Saturday, April 26
Art Show: May 6 -May 7
Spring Dance Performance and Reception: Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17
Grade 2 Publishing Party: Thursday, May 22
Memorial Day; No School: May 26
Olympics: Wednesday, May 28
Last day of school: Thursday, May 29
This week in the Ivy Nook
Social Emotional:
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment:
Singapore Math:
Mrs. Ford's Group:
Reading/Writing/Spelling:
Literature Discussion With Mrs. Peiken:
Gardening:
Technology:
Bring in recycled and found materials on Monday for creation of table centerpieces with Ms. Susan!
Upcoming Dates:
Spring Long Weekend: April 17 - April 21
Free Dress: Friday, April 25
Spring Carnival: Saturday, April 26
Art Show: May 6 -May 7
Spring Dance Performance and Reception: Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17
Grade 2 Publishing Party: Thursday, May 22
Memorial Day; No School: May 26
Olympics: Wednesday, May 28
Last day of school: Thursday, May 29
This week in the Ivy Nook
Social Emotional:
- SuperFlex and The Unthinkables
- Further introduction to Unthinkables and how to use Superflex to defeat them!
- Tools for calming and comforting self
- How to be proud but not boastful
- Considering others feelings
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 9 - Money: Dollars and Cents; Adding and Subtracting Money
- Breaking apart numbers to make equations "more friendly"
- Math Puzzles - Real World, Renaming and Count By
- Math-a-Thon Funbook
- Next week: Fractions
- Unit 10 - Fractions
- Unit 11 - Time
- Review 12 (fractions, time, and money review)
- Mental Math
- Intensive Practice - Take the Challenge!
- Math-a-Thon Funbook
Reading/Writing/Spelling:
- Poetry reading and writing (focus on imagery)
- 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: Expert Books- planning pages and writing as an "expert" on chosen subject
- Peer Conferencing (editing expert books)
- Read Aloud: The BFG
- Lexia practice
- Fundations
Literature Discussion With Mrs. Peiken:
- Poetry reading and questions
- From Mrs. Peiken regarding Monday's homework next week: On or before Monday night, please read the next two poems in Companions packet and create a question for one of them.
- Mineral Identification (putting a name to our samples)
- Writing Mineral Reports
Gardening:
- Creating crop identification posts for garden
- Food and nutrition with Ms. Susan - Trying new things!
Technology:
- Responsibilities of Digital Citizenship
- Staying safe online