Upcoming Important Dates to Notes:
- 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
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
- A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink - What Is a Noun?
- To Root, to Toot, to Parachute - What Is a Verb?
- Hairy, Scary, Ordinary - What Is an Adjective?; sharing and brainstorming adjectives
- Writing Workshop - continue the writing process for fairy tales
- Peer and teacher conferencing and editing
- Author Share of student published fairy tales
- Lexia: Computer program practice
- Fundations: fluency practice and syllable division; when to use c, k, or ck to spell /k/
- Handwriting Without Tears: Xx, Zz, and review of all letters
- Read Aloud: The B.F.G. by Roald Dahl
- Literature Discussion with Mrs. Pieken - voting for California Young Readers Medal
Singapore Math
- Methods for Mental Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication and Division of 4, 5, and 10
- 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
- "Ooey Gooey Animal Guts" - Stomach dissection of Kelp Forest Consumers
- Kelp Forest food web
- Schoolyard Investigations - Using our senses to observe changes in our quadrats
- Small group reading and discussion: The Adventures of Phokey, The Sea Otter
Social/Emotional
- Meditation: Going within yourself
- Toolbox - discussing Personal Space tool to use at home and school
Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment
- Organization of Dots