Focus for the week of October 29, 2018

This week our second grade students will be working on:

Reading:  Students will learn to determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject.

Math:  Students will understand that understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones.They will read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
and count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

Writing:  Students will write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. They will use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified. Also, they will produce, expand and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences.

Science: Students will continue to learn about the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes. This also includes Earth materials and systems.

Social Studies:  Students will  use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale. They will learn to describe land use in the community(e.g.where people live, where services are provided, where products are made. They will construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and natural characteristics of place.

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Halloween Happenings at Miller on Thursday, October 25, 2018

Miller will be having the 3rd annual pumpkin patch and animal petting farm during the day for all students.  We will also have a magician assembly for those students who have had great behavior for October.

BOO BASH This event is after school from  5:00 – 6:30 pm, all families are welcome.  We will have a frightfully fun time!

 

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Homework for the week of October 22, 2018

Please click on the link to see the homework sheet sent home on Monday with your child.

HW packet 10-22-18

A snapshot is written below to see our homework for the week.

Complete daily assignments and return each day.

Monday, October 22

Math: Lesson 4 homework, math bag, and ZEARN.

Spelling: (in your homework notebook)

Write your words. Circle all of the vowels. Underline each of the consonants. (vowels: a,e,i,o,u)

Reading:  Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Tuesday, October 23

Math: Lesson 5 homework, math bag, and ZEARN.

Spelling:  Write your words four times each!

Reading:  Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Wednesday, October 24

Math: (in your folder)

Lesson 6 homework, math bag, and ZEARN.

Spelling:  Use each of your words in a complete sentence.

Reading:  Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Thursday, October 25

Math: Lesson 7 homework, math bag, and ZEARN.

Spelling: Have someone give you a pretend test.

Reading: Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Math: (in your folder) Math bag games, and ZEARN.

Reading: Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Reminders:

*Bring a healthy snack to school. Some ideas include fruit, veggies, crackers.

*It’s getting colder, please dress for the weather. J

*Permission slips and money are DUE on October 26. We will not accept late permission slips or

money.

*Spelling test on Friday.

Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

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Spelling for the week of October 22, 2018

Spelling List 8  

Vowel pairs ai, ay (wait, way)

main      

sail

jay         

stay       

may       

Dolch Words:  would, your, don’t, their, call

Our test will be on Friday morning.

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Focus for the week of October 22, 2018

This week our second grade students will be working on:

Reading:  Students will learn to ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a non-fiction text.

Math:  Students will understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. They will understand the following as special cases: Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

Writing:  Students will write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. They will use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified. Also, they will produce, expand and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences.

Science: Students will continue to learn about the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes. This also includes Earth materials and systems.

Social Studies:  Students will  use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale. They will learn to describe land use in the community(e.g.where people live, where services are provided, where products are made. They will construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and natural characteristics of place.

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Detroit Zoo Field Trip

Our 2nd grade class is going on a field trip to the Detroit Zoo on Wednesday, October 31, 2018.  The cost is as follows:  Students $6.00 and Chaperones $7.00.  Please bring in your permission slip as soon as possible.  We needed chaperones for our class.  Please come and join us for a great day of learning and fun!

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I-Ready Access on home Computers

Many students and parents have mentioned that they are having a hard time logging into
I-Ready through Clever on their home computers.
Students will need to go to gmail.com, the student must log in with their @dearbornschools.org account, if someone else is logged in the Clever link will NOT work. Once the student has logged in with their @dearbornschools.org account, they can go to the Clever link and they will be able to access their I-Ready accounts.
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Homework for the week of October 15, 2018

Our homework sheet went home with your student on Monday afternoon.

Monday

Math:
Math bag, and ZEARN.
Spelling: (in your homework notebook)
Write your words. Circle all of the vowels. Underline each of the consonants.
(vowels: a, e, i, o, u)
Reading:
Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Tuesday

Math:
Lesson 1 homework, math bag, and ZEARN.
Spelling: (in your homework notebook)
Write your words four times each!
Reading:
Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever

Wednesday

Math:
Lesson 2 homework, math bag, and ZEARN.
Spelling: (in your homework notebook)
Use each of your words in a complete sentence.
Reading:
Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Thursday

Math:
Lesson 2 homework, math bag, and ZEARN.
Spelling: (in your homework notebook)
Have someone give you a pretend test.
Reading:
Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

Friday

Math:
Math bag games, and ZEARN.
Reading:
Read for 20-30 minutes from reading bag, and use i-Ready on Clever.

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Spelling for the week of October 15, 2018

Spelling List 7 Consonant Blends sl, st, sk, sp

slide            

skin         

skip     

step           

spell           

Dolch Words:  any, has, give, how, very

Our test will be on Friday morning.

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Focus for the week of October 15, 2018

This week our second grade students will be working on:

Reading:  Students will learn and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

Math:  Students will understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. They will understand the following as special cases:
count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

Writing:  Students will write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Science: Students will continue to learn about the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes This also includes Earth materials and systems.

Social Studies:  Students will  use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale. They will learn to describe land use in the community(e.g.where people live, where services are provided, where products are made.

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