Focus for the week of November 20, 2017

Our second grade students will be working and practicing these skills this week:

Reading:  Students will compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

Writing:  Students will continue to work on informational research and writing.

Math:  Students will learn to tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Science:  Students will continue to investigate soil and earth materials.

Social Studies:  Students will learn to understand that communities are a combination of landforms and bodies of water by looking at pictures of communities and explaining how it impacts the community.

 

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Focus for the Week of November 13, 2017

 

 

Our second graders will be working and practicing these skills this week:

 

Reading; Students will identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. They will learn to compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

Writing:   Students will choose a topic of interest like:  community helpers; weather; animals; biographies; insects or mammals. They will work on finding and researching their topic and including it in their writing.

Math:  Students will learn to tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Social Studies:  Students will continue learning about maps and map symbols.  They will learn about different forms of transportation and how this relates to school and home.

Science:  Students will investigate soil by learning how to make it and discovering how it is made.

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Spelling for the week of November 13, 2017

 

 

 

 

Spelling Week 10: Vowel pairs ow, oe, oa (long o)

Word Bank:

grow      

low        

toe           

goes    

soap       

Dolch Words:  been, off, does, always, gave

Our test will be on Friday morning, November 17, 2017

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Parent Teacher Conferences November 15 and 16

 

Below is a list of parent/teacher conferences for:

 

 

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

4:00  Ebraheem Saleh

4:20  Dania Musid

4:40  AboAlqusem Ali

5:00 Mohammed Mohammed

5:20  Zeinab Shohatee

5:40  Rama Almahadabi

6:00  Abdulrahman Nasser

6:20 Rayan Jahmi

6:40  Salma Tabaja

Thursday, November 16, 2017

4:oo  Mohanned Kassem

4:20 Abrehem Fittahy

4:40 Muhammed Nagi

5:00 Abdulhafeth Sharian

5:20 Sarah Saleh

5:40  Jawan Sharif

6:oo-6:15 Fahd Alharbi

6:20-6:35 Salma Tabaja

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Homework for the week of November 6, 2017

The homework packet is brought home on Monday which includes all the homework listed below.

Monday-read 20 minutes, addition math,  spelling triangles

Tuesday-read 20 minutes,  math number lines,  spell 3x each

Wednesday-read 20 minutesread out loud spelling,  math missing numbers

Thursday-read 20 minutes, draw a hidden picture with spelling words, math-add 3 numbers,

***Spelling test on Friday.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday-read 20 minutes.

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Parent Teacher Conference Schedule

 

Below is a list of parent/teacher conferences for:

 

 

Thursday, November 9

4:00 Zahraa Alsaidi

4:20 Albaraa Abdulla

4:40  Yusra Alharbi

5:00  Fahd Alharbi

5:20 Abdulmohsin Aldhalimi

5:40 Eman Alhertaky

6:00 Nisreen Alqwari

6:20 Muna Alsunaidi

6:40  Dania Diab

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

4:oo Ebraheem Saleh

4:20  Dania Musid

4:40  AboAlqusem Ali

5:00 Mohammed Mohammed

5:20  Zeinab Shohatee

5:40  Rama Almahadabi

6:00  Abdulrahman Nasser

6:20 Rayan Jahmi

6:40  Salma Tabaja

Thursday, November 16, 2017

4:oo  Mohanned Kassem

4:20 Abrehem Fittahy

4:40 Muhammed Nagi

5:00 Abdulhafeth Sharian

5:20 Sarah Saleh

5:40  Jawan Sharif

6:00

6:20

6:40

 

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Spelling for the week of November 6, 2017

 

Spelling List 9  Vowel combinations i, y, ie (long i)

 

 

try                   

pie         

cry          

tie           

wild        

Dolch Words:  around, right, green, sleep, before

Our test will be on Friday morning on November 10, 2017.

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Focus for the Week

Students will be focusing on the following areas this week:

Reading:  Students will learn to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.  They will also identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

Writing:  Students will continue to work on informational writing using research.

Math:  Students will be able to explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

Science:  Students will learn how the structure, properties, and interactions of matter work together by writing examples of things that can be made with rocks.

Social Studies: Students will understand that communities are divided into places or areas where people work, play, shop, and live by organizing the map of Treeville into parts.

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No School on Tuesday

There will not be school on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 due to the election polls in our school.

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Homework for the week of October 30-November 3

The homework packet goes home on Monday, this includes all homework listed below.

Monday-read 20 minutes, math balancing equations,  spelling sentences

Tuesday-read 20 minutes, open number lines math problems and study guide for test,  spell words out loud

Wednesday-read 20 minutes, study for math test, rainbow spelling

Thursday-read 20 minutes, trace the words spelling, clock matching math.  Spelling test on Friday.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday-read 20 minutes.

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