Upcoming Important Dates to Notes:
We hope you all had a wonderful and restful Spring Break! We all were excited to return to school to see each other again and forge ahead towards the end of the school year.
This Week in Second Grade:
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
Singapore Math
History/Social Studies
- Zero Waste Week - March 16 - 20
- St. Patrick's Day - March 17
- Junk to Funk Assembly- March 19
- Free Dress - Friday, March 27
- Spring Long Weekend - April 16 - 20
- Safety Moulage Drill - Tuesday, April 21
- Earth Day Assembly - April 22
- Free Dress - Friday, April 24
- Scholastic Book Fair - April 27 - 30
- Art Show - May 4 - 7
- 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
We hope you all had a wonderful and restful Spring Break! We all were excited to return to school to see each other again and forge ahead towards the end of the school year.
This Week in Second Grade:
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
- Reading Workshop/Independent Reading- 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
- Reading Inventory - what did you read over Spring Break?; classifying genres
- Writing Workshop: Introduction to idioms
- Envisioning, planning, and writing our own fairy tales
- Peer and teacher conferencing and edting
- Lexia: Computer program practice and pencil/paper skill builder practice
- Fundations: practice identifying sounds and marking words
- Read Aloud: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Irish Cinderlad
Singapore Math
- Find the Missing Number; Finding Parts and Wholes; Learning to Make 100
- Methods for Mental Addition and Subtraction
- Fact Fluency 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 - Addition and Subtraction Balance Tiles; Add-A-Dot Tiles; Tens and Ones Place Value Tiles
History/Social Studies
- Biography project presentations