Upcoming Important Dates to Notes:
Zero Waste Week was a smashing success! It all culminated on Thursday with our most amazing Junk 2 Funk fashion show yet! Big shout out to Sally Russell and all the participants for all their efforts. What fun!
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-
Singapore Math
Science
Social/Emotional
- 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
Zero Waste Week was a smashing success! It all culminated on Thursday with our most amazing Junk 2 Funk fashion show yet! Big shout out to Sally Russell and all the participants for all their efforts. What fun!
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
- Writing Workshop - continue the writing process for fairy tales
- Peer and teacher conferencing and editing
- Author Share
- Friendly letter writing for our Super Star
- Lexia: Computer program practice
- Fundations: fluency practice and syllable division
- Read Aloud: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- St. Patrick's Day Idioms
Singapore Math
- Methods for Mental Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication and Division of 4, 5, and 10
- Division with Remainder
- 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 - Addition and Subtraction Balance Tiles; Add-A-Dot Tiles; Tens and Ones Place Value Tiles
Science
- Diet and Behavioral Adaptations of Sea Otters
- Creating Sea Otter Puppets
- Small group reading and discussion: The Adventures of Phokey, The Sea Otter
Social/Emotional
- Meditation: Going within yourself