How are we to the last day of February already! Time seems to be flying by! On Monday you will be receiving all the information for March is reading month.
We are continuing throughout March with adding and subtracting through 1000, benchmark unit 7 and talking about the past, and continuing to write fiction stories. The days seems so busy and most days we are getting through it all!
Reminder to have boots and shoes these next couple weeks as we thaw out. The playground is a muddy mess and we need extra shoes to change in to.
We are moving right along! We finished up Unit 6 of Benchmark and begin Unit 7 on Monday! They did great with the Tales/Fiction unit. Some even enjoyed the stories. Books are coming home today. I am still working on grading some of the packets. Those will come home soon. Sorry for the delay.
We are continuing on with Eureka math adding and subtracting through 1000. We use the eureka strategies when doing this. I reminded them that IReady likes to use the compensation and benchmark numbers strategy. We practice that way with the practice problems and whiteboards along with the math lessons and those strategies that we are doing right now- Make a ten. I will attached a reference chart at the end of this post for you to see! We reference it a lot during class to remember.
With our four day week we were still able to squeeze in a science lesson, social studies maps lesson, and do zumba with the rest of the lower el montessori! Next week we also have a four day week then we get back to normal for March!
A very big THANK YOU for getting all of the stuff in for both field trips TODAY!!! I am running the all school field trip so this is SO HELPFUL to have our class stuff done and ready and be able to help all the other teachers and compile it all. Much appreciated to all of you <3
Lets hope its true and we get to 40 degrees next week… we are all tired of this snow and indoor recess… they have been troopers but we are ready to get out and run around!
Field trip papers (for The Henry Ford Museum) are due by FRIDAY!
I am only sending home fasting permission slips for Ramadan for those parents who request it. Please email me if you need this form. Your child must have the form filled out and signed in order to fast during Ramadan at school.
You have one week to turn in the Dearborn Historical Museum field trip papers. Those are due the 28th. (no money needed… just a signature).
Scholastic news homework will be every tuesday during early release for a homework grade! We don’t have enough hours in the day to get through everything. This is something simple they can do at home. The students know I collect and keep track of it for a report card grade along with the spelling choice board.
Reminder that we have NO SCHOOL on Tuesday, February 25th.
First I completely forgot to blog post yesterday! I understand about the math lesson and it’s disaster! Thanks to the parents who brought it to my attention. When we practiced and I worked with them on problems they were “adding” but then some of the gear problems wanted them to subtract. By that point they were doing it independently. Eureka was using the word fewer in multiple problems and the kids were getting confused and not reading the whole problems. I realized yesterday when I saw the first email but we skipped math Wednesday because we had to do the valentines crafts instead. We are ahead in math so next week we will spend 2 days re-doing some problems and practicing more from lessons 3 and 4 before moving on. I had already printed additional practice problems yesterday before we left at the end of the day.
The students all know we are taking the spelling test tomorrow to finish this weeks benchmark up. Lots of conversations about our story and being nice. This week has been about kindness with valentines day so they matched perfectly. Yesterday afternoon we did an activity with filling in hearts with describing words for our friends and they each got to fill out everyone else’s book! It was so cool and I can’t wait for you to see them on Friday! I looked through them last night as I was adding my finishing touches on the project. It was super cool to see some of the creative things they wrote about each other. <3
We made valentines for our special education buddy classroom! On Friday we will deliver them! They each cut out the heart, wrote happy valentines day, and drew pictures. They are SO EXCITED to pass them out to them! (A lot of these students have allergies so we couldn’t just add them into our counts with what they brought from home even though I thought about it…. I did not want to give them things they potentially could not have and then it have to be taken away)
Not only did we work on writing about each other we also worked on some self love- This was titled a sweetheart activity. Thinking and writing about things we LOVE about ourselves. They are hanging in the hallway for all to see but I couldn’t help snapping a pic to post for you all to see as well. (I will put the picture at the bottom of this post).
Unfortunately with WIDA testing I wasn’t able to teach science and social studies this week. They seemed to pull each afternoon to complete that testing and its super hard to teach with so many gone! We will just push those lessons to next week because everyone is officially done with the wida test now for second grade.
Remember— If you haven’t sent in valentines yet you need to on Friday! We pass them out!
Also ——send in popcorn money in folders if you want to buy some! $1 per bag. They will be passed out at dismissal.
I will see all my friends bright and early Friday morning! We have the spelling test then off to the Micheal Berry side to play and learn with the high school students wanting to become Dental hygienists.
Scholastic news homework tonight. Please complete and send in tomorrow!
Field trip (another) form coming home today! It is bright green. This is a district required field trip for all second graders. It is free and only for two hours. We have chaperones already so I just need the permission slips signed for them to go. Please let me know if you have any questions.
These weeks seem to be flying by…. so fast. I can not believe next week is already valentines week.
Lots of things coming home today…. most important being the Iready scores. I was so excited to see how many of their scores went up and they did better. We are going to continue to work on things and practice the standards that I know are addressed in both the Iready assessment and what is graded on report cards. The next step for most of them in the reading test is going to be to write a sentence answer and type it into the computer. If they have a purple box on iready pathways to practice that means that will come up on their spring test. We will start practicing this in class to get used to it so I can assist them in this process as well. It is all a learning curve and not as simple as choosing the right answer once they get to a certain level. As for the math scores we did not do any of the geometry lessons before taking the test which included time. So many missed those questions simply because we had not covered this. We will continue practicing those and reviewing before the spring even though our next module is back to adding and subtracting. Overall as long as their score went up I was pleased with the progress. I know they tried their best and testing is never easy. Please email me if you have any questions.
Even with missing the day we are going to keep pushing ahead. Next week Valentines are due by Wednesday (2/12) please! Make sure the bag is labeled so I know who is passing them out. Each child should have 19 to pass out. We have lots of cute projects to do throughout the week talking about kindness and what we love about ourselves.
Make sure you are subscribed to the school blog… They post lunch choices each morning and with the days off and deliveries being affected I have had some complaints from students that the choice isn’t what the paper calendar says. Lunch is posted everyday around 730 am so you know before school in case a lunch from home is wanted.
We did science experiments this week and it was QUITE THE MESS! But fun… the pictures were posted on the school instagram if you haven’t seen them yet
In social studies more practice to come with map reading. That homework was supposed to be a review… those were the first grade standards (knowing north/south/east/west and answering questions related to a map). I will find more practice for us to do in that area while we continue on with the social studies lessons. Some will be done in class and some will come home for homework. We are trying to squeeze in so much that occasionally I’m gonna have to send home undone things like that just because we ran out of time.
Last– Field trip papers to The Henry Ford Museum are not due until the 21st. If you DO NOT send in money I will assume no one is chaperoning and put your child in a group with others.
Due to predicted extreme weather that could bring hazardous conditions in the morning, all Dearborn Public Schools will be closed on Thursday, February 6, 2025.
Those involved in athletic programs taking part later in the day on February 6th will be notified regarding the status of activities.
