News & Notes for the Week of January 3rd
and The Week of January 8th
Spelling Please click on the link below to access our weekly spelling list on Spelling City! List #13: Long o Please click on the link below to access the monthly lunch menu. Lunch Menu | Dates to Remember Wednesday, January 3rd: Welcome Back! Monday, January 15th: MLK Jr. Day, No School Thursday, January 18th and Friday, January 19th: Semester Exams Early Dismissal at 11:08am |
Shiver Me Timbers!
Here's What's Happening in Second Grade!
During writer's workshop we will continue with our final how-to writing piece. For this project, we will combine science and writing with a fun STEAM {Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math} writing activity. Students will be solving the problem of what to do with a cardboard box. We'll be brainstorming different ways that we can transform our boxes into something special and useful and then writing a how-to piece that our reader could follow to recreate our project. To give you an idea and a little inspiration for our project, go ahead and watch this video clip below...
During this short week and our full week of school next week, we'll be learning all about Martin Luther King Jr. in preparation for MLK Jr. Day on Monday, January 15th. We have several non-fiction texts that we will be reading to help us understand more about his life and the legacy that he has left behind. As we read, we'll work on finding key facts in the text. We'll also be learning about commas in a series and reviewing how to correctly write a date.
The next couple of weeks during math we will be wrapping up our geometry unit with a study of fractions. If you are interested in having your child practice at home, they can go to Prodigy and review fractions online. I've created assignments within Prodigy that will specifically allow your child to practice fraction skills over the next couple weeks. You can also Google "Fraction Activities for Second Grade." In class, we'll be working on recognizing how many parts it takes to equal one whole, naming equal parts, and identifying examples and non-examples of fractional parts.