Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I hope you enjoy this time with your family and friends.

No school this Wednesday-Friday so that changes our week a bit.

No spelling this week.

We began a new math unit last Friday that continues students fluency with addition and subtraction with 100 using different strategies based on place value.

We’ll begin creating our own map of Dearborn, which includes making a key with symbols.

We’re learning about the different land forms and bodies of water on the Earth’s surface as well as how they are created.

PTA Holiday Shop today.

Enjoy your week 🙂

Our class will be going first thing Monday morning at 9:00. If your child would like to buy anything, prices begin at 50 cents.

Good morning 🙂 I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and it sure was nice to see the sun shine!

This week we’ll begin a new 3 week reading unit on informational text. The next book we’ll be working in in called Plants and Animals in Their Habitats. We’ll be reading both non fiction and fiction selections to help us understand the new theme. The strategies we’ll be working with include identifying the main topic of a text, using images to help understand and clarify our reading, retelling story events and comparing and contrasting key points of 2 different texts.

The spelling words focus on the long u sound: use, few, cute, huge, cube, music, rescue, menu, fuel, January.

Our math unit continues reading, writing and comparing numbers up to 1,000 using place value disks. We’ll be using the signs =, <, > and working with 1 more/less 10 more/less than numbers. This week should bring us to the end of this unit.

For social studies, e’ll be reading a map of Dearborn this week which will lead us into making our own next week.

Science begins our learning about Earth formations/land forms and bodies of water.

Thursday the second graders will have an assembly put on by some musicians who play the flute. This will be nice to expose our students to this instrument.

Enjoy your week!

Will be this Monday, November 18. Please come at your scheduled time as if it was last Tuesday.

IF you can’t make it Monday, please send me a note, and I’ll try my best to reschedule but it will have to be during the day.

Thank you.

Tuesday conferences will be rescheduled to one day next week. This is a district level decision and I will let you know as soon as I know, which day it will be. We were told they will be either Monday or Wednesday at the same times you signed up for.

Happy snowy Monday 🙂 Please remind your child to dress warmly and bring their gloves/mittens and boots to school for outside recess. Also, a pair of shoes to change into so they’re not wearing boots all day.

We finish up conferences Tuesday and Thursday. If you’re not able to make your scheduled time, please email/Dojo a message to me and I’ll see about rescheduling.

Spelling words this week focus on the long i vowel sound: night, light, bright, dry, sky, child, high, kind, cried, tried.

We also continue our reading unit using our visualizing strategy and reading about characters who over come challenges. We’re reading different versions of fairy tales to help us. Students are also writing a personal narrative and recounting the lesson learned from their experience.

Our math focus continue with reading and writing numbers to 1,000 in different forms. You’ve seen the word form, expanded form, standard form on the homework. We’ve also been working with disks in the place of base 10 blocks. We’ll be revisiting the use of <, =, > symbols to compare numbers.

We’ll be finishing up our science unit on properties of matter this week. We learned about the property of something being meltable by doing an experiment with candy. Please ask your child which type of candy would be best to send to a friend at Camp Way-Too-Hot!

We continue our learning of map reading skills by looking at a map of Dearborn and where our place is on the map.

Stay warm and enjoy your week!

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Happy Monday 🙂 No School tomorrow, Tuesday Nov. 5 due to Election Day.

Thank you to those who have returned the blue conference slips. If you haven’t yet, please send them in with your child this week. I look forward to meeting with all of you to get more insite about your child so we can help them learn and grow together.

We are continuing our reading unit with the theme Characters Overcoming Challenges. We’ve been reading some new versions of fairy tales. Our primary reading strategy for this unit is visualizing what the text says when there are not pictures to support.

Our spelling words this week are focused on the long e sound: need, queen, tree, clean, read, leaf, key, happy, funny, piece. The students will be expected to spell the words correctly while writing them in the sentences I give them. I correct any errors in the sentences, such as capitalization, punctuation, other words misspelled but only count the spelling words.

Personal narrative is our writing genre for this unit. Students are learning to choose an event from their life that taught them a lesson and writing about it following a plan.

We’re continuing counting, reading, writing numbers to 1,000 in math. Counting money has been woven in as well.

Social studies continues our unit about map reading skills. Last week was understanding what a map key is and how to use one to help understand reading a map.This week, we’ll be viewing a map of Dearborn which will lead to us making our own.

Science will begin learning about the history of Earth processess that shape the surface.

Henry Ford is also collecting plastic caps of all kinds. We’re hoping to have enough to have some benches made for the playgrounds. Please send in only clean caps for us to collect. Bottle caps, toothpaste caps, laundry caps, etc. Our goal is 1,000 pounds!

Have a great week!