Upcoming dates:
Announcements and Reminders:
Parent/Teacher Conferences: We look forward to sharing your Grade 2 student's learning progress and setting goals in our conferences on Friday and Saturday, October 17 & 18. Please remember that our scheduled time for conferences is 20 minutes. We appreciate your timeliness, patience, and understanding. Our goal is to spend enough time with each family to review your child's progress and to set goals for 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
Science
Social Cognition and Toolbox
- Parent/Teacher Goal Setting Conferences- Friday & Saturday, October 17 & 18
- No Classes -Monday, October 20
- Free Dress - Friday, October 24
- Halloween Carnival - Friday, October 31
- Day Light Savings Ends - Sunday, November 2
- Veterans Day (classes in session) -Tuesday, November 11
- Thanksgiving Story Play - Thursday, November 13 (Time TBD)
- Free Dress - Friday, November 14
- Canned Food Drive begins - November 17
- Grandparents and Special Friends Day; Last Day of Fall Term- Friday, November 21
- Thanksgiving Break - November 22 - 30
- First Day of Winter Term: Monday, December 1
Announcements and Reminders:
Parent/Teacher Conferences: We look forward to sharing your Grade 2 student's learning progress and setting goals in our conferences on Friday and Saturday, October 17 & 18. Please remember that our scheduled time for conferences is 20 minutes. We appreciate your timeliness, patience, and understanding. Our goal is to spend enough time with each family to review your child's progress and to set goals for 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 - practicing to STOP and THINK and reflect on reading; reading and choosing "just right" books; practicing fluency; practicing habits of good readers; comprehension and fluency check-ins, keeping a reading journal
- Lexia practice
- Writing Workshop: The writing process; drafting small moment/personal narrative story; revising; peer editing; writing an About the Author; Publishing: front cover, back cover with blurb, dedication and copyright pages
- Read Aloud: The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- October writing sample
- Grade 2 self-reflection
- Portfolio organization and reflections
Singapore Math
- Addition with Renaming in Ones and Tens Columns
- Adding Three Numbers with Renaming
- Math Challenges and Problem Solving
- Math Tiles - Addition and Subtraction Balance Tiles; Add-A-Dot Tiles; Tens and Ones Place Value Tiles
- Kakooma Math Puzzles
History
- Columbus "Discovering America" - The story through multiple perspectives
- Explorer writing
Science
- One-minute Habitat Documentaries - Viewing Director's cut documentaries
- Science journal organization and entries
Social Cognition and Toolbox
- Practicing Toolbox and "using your tools"