Mrs. Bridgeman's Art Class

Roller Skating will be on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 will be a great time for all.  If you buy your tickets ahead they will be $7.00 instead of $8.00 at the door.

Our second grade students will be working on:

Reading:   Students will learn how to compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.  They will also learn how to use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Writing:   Students will write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and,also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.Students will with guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.  They will recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Math:  Students will learn to recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a gibe number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

Science:  Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of liquids by their observable properties.

Social Studies:  Students will be learning to understand that citizens have responsibilities and important roles in the community.  Also, they will be learning what patriotism is by listing examples and analyzing the Pledge of Allegiance.

Spelling List Week 17:

Vowel pairs oo, ou

shook   

soot      

could    

should  

crook   

Dolch Words:  light, laugh, upon, buy, kind

Our test will be on Friday.

Spelling Week 16

R-controlled vowels er, ir, ur

churn  

clerk

third    

first     

burst    

Dolch Words:  carry, draw, clean, together, drink

We are off school on Monday due to the Martin Luther King Holiday.  Enjoy your time off!

In second grade this week, we are learning about:

Reading:   Students will learn how to Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Writing:   Students will write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.Students will with guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.  They will recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Math:  Students will learn to use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions, e.g. by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Science:  Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.

Social Studies:  Students will be learning about laws in our community and how our government is set up and works.

Spelling Week 15                                 

R-controlled vowels ar, or

part      

park     

sort      

horse   

short    

Dolch Words:  wish, goes, eight, hurt, done

Our spelling test will be on Friday morning.