Hello Parents!
Welcome to Mrs. Burke’s second grade blog. I want to thank all the families who attended our DuVall Open House on Thursday. It was great meeting so many parents and showing you where your children spend so much of their weekly time. All the busy bees are settling into our routine nicely and working well like little bees do! We’ve already had 2 special Fridays due to working together and earning good behavior stones.
Our weekly routine in Hive 108:
Spelling: ( short vowel patterns and adding a “magic e” to make long vowels) Our words are: at, ate, mad, made, fin, fine, not, note, hop, hope and our bonus words are: tap, tape, slid, slide. Our sentence is: We can hop and then slide into the fine pool. Just a reminder that spelling homework is using one of the ideas on the back of the children’s red folders. Choose one per day to complete and this stays at home. Also, we will be practicing lower case letters when working on our spelling lessons. Work on this at home would be greatly appreciated!
Reading: We will be continually work on strategies for comprehension, fluency and accuracy this week adding the strategies to our CAFE board within our classroom. These are strategies you can have your child demonstrate at home during their 10 minutes of shared reading at home each night. Your children will also be introduced to our classroom routines for Listen to Reading and Work on Writing.
Writing: We will be working on a personal narrative story—putting our ideas in sequential order after brainstorming ideas and utilizing a story board to answer who?, what?, where?, when?, and how? questions .
Math: We continue to work on addition and subtraction within one hundred using decomposing and bonding. Homework has and will be sent home almost daily. Please be sure these are returned to school the next day, for we correct them with partners and as a group. We are becoming more familiar with our new Eureka Math program and children are catching on. We are approaching the end of Module 1 and I am anticipating our first assessment on Friday. Please watch your child’s planner for this could change. I will be introducing the children to a math computer program for review of this Module, so again watch your child’s planner for further information.
Social Studies: As a class we are putting together an “Our Community….Dearborn”, folder with human and natural characteristics, businesses, transportation, how our community differs from others and maps of our community.
A few extra tidbits:
*LATE START this Wednesday, September 19th
*Continue to send in Box Tops 🙂
*Please submit your information in the office for I-Chat form completion
*Please practice tying shoes with your child.
Thank you so much for your support and if you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to inquire.
Again, welcome to Hive 108!
Fondly,
Mrs. Burke
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