We had a great time learning at Cranbrook Science Museum! Please ask your child all about it. I’m sure they’re tired 😉   A special thank you to the parents that went. We couldn’t have gone on the trip without them.

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is our trip to the Cranbrook Science Museum. Have your children wear comfortable shoes for walking around in all day. Healthy lunch needed because no food can be bought there. Also, please no money for the gift shop–we won’t have time for that.

No Spelling this week due to the short week.

We’re starting our last writing unit of the year. Narrative–story writing.

We’re done with NWEA testing and I’m almost done with reading assessments. 1 more math test next week plus the last 3 min. computation test.

Library books due this week so please send any in that are at home.

I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend with your families and friends 🙂

No School this Friday for next Monday for Memorial Day. Hopefully, you can enjoy the Dearborn Parade 🙂

Spelling test will be on Thursday this week. Words are: bigger, biggest, liked, liking, talked. Dolch words are: down, small, our, funny, six

We’ll finish up unit 10 in math and begin our last unit. It’s focus will be on subtraction strategies for 2 and 3 digit numbers.

We’ll learn about a community issue using a fiction book and how the community solved the problem. This relates to our writing as well.

We’re stating our opinion in writing this week and supporting our choice with reasons. about a community problem.

Comparing and contrasting stories about the same topic will be the last focus for our reading strategies.

A note will come home from the PTA about a holiday sale.

Enjoy the week 🙂

We’re done with the Math portion and all the students have made gains 🙂

Tomorrow and Friday morning, first thing 8:50-10:00 we’ll be testing the Reading portion.  1/2 Thursday and finishing up the other 1/2 Friday.

Please continue to encourage your child to take their time and do their best.

Late Start Wednesday May 16. School begins at 9:35

I will update if I hear about any changes to the PTA carnival tonight. 5:00-6:30

Thank you to those who sent in the field trip permission and money. I still need 1 more approved parent to go with us. If you can, it will be greatly appreciated.

2nd grade NWEA testing begins tomorrow through Friday. We will be taking the Reading and Math tests again but 1/2 of each test each day to break it up. Testing will be in the morning.

The April PBIS positive behavior celebration will be tomorrow last thing in the day. It will be an ice cream reward so no toys or electronics from home this time.

This week’s Spelling words are singular/plurals with spelling changes: woman, women, goose, geese, mouse. Dolch words: shall, us, seven,far, cut

We’re continuing stating facts learned from 2 different types of informational articles, 1 book and 1 magazine type article. We’re comparing and contrasting what was learned in each.

We’ll be revisiting Opinion writing for the next couple of weeks and focusing on a community issue we’re studying in Social Studies. After discussing the issue as a class, students have to take a stand on the issue and writing opinions with appropriate reasons to support their opinion.

Math skills this week are in writing explain seeing a number in base 10 and what is shows or not. (Explain a mistake a student makes in writing the number wrong). I’m also introducing making change for $1.00. I’m teaching it by counting up to $1.00 not subtracting from $1.00. (That will come in 3rd with borrowing from the 0s)  For example, if something cost 70c, how much change will you get back from $1.00.  Count up from 70 by 10s to 100 so the answer is 30 cents.

Enjoy the week!

It will now be on Monday May 14   5:00-7:30.

$7.00 per person. Some bouncy houses, a train, games, and other activities. Food and drink will be available to buy.

Any questions please call a PTA mom.

Book check out this Thursday. Please have all library books returned to school.

PTA Fun Fair this Friday 5:00-8:00

I will be sending home the permission slip for our field trip to the Cranbrook Science Center. Please return as soon as possible with the $2.00. I will need 4 more pre approved chaperones. This is a requirement of the museum to have many chaperones so the students can have the best experience.

This week’s Spelling words: boxes, fixes, dishes, sandwiches, witches. Dolch words: light, drink, only, much, bring

We’re continuing our reading of informational (nonfiction) text. We’ll be comparing and contrasting 2 different types on the same topic: 1 a book and the other a “magazine” article.

We’re continuing our poetry unit this week with 2 more types of poems: cinquain, and rhyming poems. The students have seemed to like this unit 🙂

We’re also continuing our math unit with expanded notation–reading a number written in base 10 blocks or in words and writing dollar amounts in “dollar and cents notation” ($2.03) for two dollars three cents

Social Studies will be finishing up our history unit and science will continue our plant unit with planting seeds and observing their growth.

NWEA testing for Second Grade is next week.

Enjoy the week 🙂

Thank goodness for beautiful sunshine the last day of April 🙂

Book orders and money are due by Wednesday, please.

Spirit Friday is Wear Pink Day 🙂

Spelling words this week are contractions–didn’t, they’ve, she’ll, he’s, wouldn’t. Dolch words: don’t, warm, never, myself, keep

We did have a math test last week so the scores will be sent home today. We’re starting another new unit which involves working with numbers past 100–being able to identify and draw using base 10 blocks and using expanded form (123=100 + 20 + 3) is the focus this week.

Our reading strategy will focus on reading 2 different types of texts about the same topic, then comparing and contrasting them over the next few weeks.

We will begin a unit on poetry the next 2 weeks. We do have a school wide poetry contest going on until May 12 for our annual Clean Up Day in May.

Social Studies continues our study of communities and problems they face and how they were solved. This week we’ll be using a book based on a real problem that a Pennsylvania community faced that we did as well. The polluting of a major river. I connect this book to what happened to the Rouge River and how individuals and companies were responsible for polluting it as well as pulling together to clean it up.

We continue our seed exploration this week comparing and contrasting different types of seeds. Next week we should be planting 🙂

Enjoy the week!

So wonderful to see sunshine!

This week’s spelling words: roar, board, chore, snore, wore. Dolch words: done, been, take, laugh, eight.

We’re continuing our non fiction reading strategy of reading for facts and information using both photos and text, including captions.

We’re also continuing reading about our animals and finding facts.

The skill in math this week is using measurement to compare lengths: If a pencil is 6 cm. long and a paperclip is 3 cm, how much longer is the pencil? How much shorter is the paperclip?

We’re also continuing with our history unit in social studies and looking at change over time in houses and roads in a community. For example, roads went from dirt roads (for walking only), wagon trails, brick roads to paved roads.

Enjoy the week 🙂