All the Second grades in Dearborn visit the Historical museum. Our turn to go is March 28. However, the $5.00 and permission slip is due by tomorrow, Friday March 2.
I still need 2 more chaperones who are approved on the background check list. You will be with a small group of about 6 students and moving with them from activity to activity. The museum has everything planned out and very well organized.
Thanks for volunteering.
Welcome Back! I hope you were able to have some fun and downtime this past week. Now back to the routine while the month of February comes to a close.
Spelling words this week focus on “oi” and “oy”: oil, moist, broil, toy, royal. Dolch words: right, white, these, made, walk
Our reading strategy for the next couple of weeks will focus on recounting/retelling (events in order). Folktales and fables will be used so students are introduced to some stories they may not have read or heard before.
The writing focus will then be on writing their own narrative story again focused on writing events in order.
The next math unit this week will revisit adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers using an open number line and other strategies that could be used to adding 2 digit numbers.
Social Studies begins a unit on How Do People Work Together in a Community? This week scarcity and making choices is the focus. The vocabulary word “opportunity cost” will be taught–it is just the thing or choice given up or not chosen when we make a choice to buy something because we can’t have all we want.
We’ll have a Reading assembly this week on Tuesday and the District wide Pennies for Patients program will begin on Friday.
We are also down to one last box of kleenex. If you have a spare box at home and wouldn’t mind donating it to the class, it would be much appreciated. The colds and runny noses used all the other boxes up 🙂
Enjoy your week!
Happy Vacation Time 🙂
Thank you so much for all the treats people sent in for Valentine’s Day. The students were thrilled with the treats they received.
Great job also on the 100 Day projects. The students came up with very creative ideas! If your child would still like to do one over break, that would be great. They can bring it in when we return.
Dr. Moughni sent home a blue reading log for students to record their minutes read. It is important to keep both reading, writing and math skills up for a bit everyday.
Enjoy your time off. School resumes February 26.
I hope everyone enjoyed their snow day Friday 🙂 Anyone work on their 100 Day Project? 🙂
We are done with WIDA testing in our room. The individual speaking section needs to still be done.
Valentine’s Day is Wednesday so valentines and individually wrapped candy can be brought to school to pass out to classmates. Non candy items are welcome and much appreciated too. I sent home the list last week of student names. The party will be at the end of the day.
The 100th Day is now Friday so any projects can be brought in any day this week.
Friday is also pajama day!
Spelling words this week: clown, growl, crown, loud, round. Dolch words: brown, out, about, found, around.
We’re continuing our informational reading strategies this week and focusing on the 3 forms of water and the water cycle and the facts learned from our reading. We’ll be writing the facts we learned from our writing as well.
We’ll be learning about patriotism and individual rights vs common good for all.
Math will be lessons on solving word problems involving subtraction using a number line. We’re due to have another math test so that may happen Thursday.
Enjoy your week!
If you haven’t heard yet, our Stone Soup was a success! Many thanks to those of you who sent in the spoons, bowls, carrots, onions, potatoes, celery, and broth. The majority of the students enjoyed it and realized it’s just vegetable soup 😉 It was a fun way to end a cold day!
Late Start this Wednesday. School begins at 9:35.
Some of your children will be taking the WIDA Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking tests beginning today. The Listening portion will be today, Reading will be Tuesday and the Writing will be given Thursday. These tests will be administered by me in the classroom and the Speaking portion is given 1-1 in a small group setting by another teacher.
Engineering Night is this Thursday 5:00-7:00 at the school. This is always an awesome event with many different engineering hands on activities throughout the building. I hope you can bring your child!
Spelling words this week: pause, launch, draw, crawl, hawk. Dolch words: once, yellow, upon, some, with
Our reading strategy these next 2 weeks will circle back to informational reading with the focus on reading diagrams and graphics in text. We’ve been learning how to read graphs and charts in math so this all fits nicely together.
We finished our opinion unit with the students writing their opinion on a book they like-“Warm Up to a Good Book” was what they created. They did a nice job.
Arrays (repeated addition which leads to multiplication) is the new skill for math this week. Students always seem to enjoy this section of the unit because I show them how this leads to multiplication 🙂 Of course, the addition and subtraction facts are still necessary and we don’t focus on the “times tables” until 3rd grade.
Local government services as well as private action taken by an individual to help make their community better and government action is what we’ll be learning about in Social Studies.
Wind erosion will be demonstrated and discussed in Science.
Spirit Friday is mustache day 🙂
Stay warm and enjoy the week!
Welcome to the last week of January, wow! February is soon upon us and yes we will be having a Valentine’s Day party on Feb. 14, the end of the day 🙂
Stone Soup….you may have heard that we have been reading many different versions of a classic tale called Stone Soup. The children are enjoying this book and have asked about making, can you really eat Stone Soup??? So, we’re going to make it this week. If you are able to send in 1 vegetable of any kind to add to the soup: potato, small onion, carrot, I’ll use the brussel sprouts from last week, a bit of corn, some salt & pepper, etc. that would be great. But what I will really need is someone to send in halal beef broth, please. I’ll bring in my crock pot and we’ll make the soup Friday for the end of unit project 🙂 We’ll also need 25 spoons and small styrofoam bowls or cups. 1 lucky student randomly chosen will be responsible for bringing in the small, round, smooth stone :))) If your child has not told you the story, it can be found retold on YouTube and in the library. There are many versions and it is quite fun! It’s one of my favorite folk tales 🙂 Please make sure all veggies are already cut up for us. Many thanks.
Library book check-out is this Thursday so library books need to be brought to school by then.
Spelling words this week: root, chew, clue, canoe, fruit. Dolch words: two, ask, to, who, use.
Our writing genre is still opinion and this week we’ll be writing about a book we like to read using reasons to support our opinion and I know they’ll each have an opinion about the stone soup, lol.
Social studies will be learning about how local governments are organized and emphasizing the 3 branches of government–mayor, city council, judges.
Math begins a new unit and learning strategies for adding 2 or more 2 digit numbers. Mental as well as paper pencil strategies are taught. We’ll be doing some graphing as well this week.
We’re continuing our landform unit in science and will be dong an activity to show how various landforms are made.
Enjoy your week and be sure to ask your child about Stone Soup 🙂
1/2 day this Friday January 26. School is dismissed at 11:45. No lunch will be served.
So far, both NWEA tests the students took seemed to go well. Students are taking their time and seem to be trying their best. One more will be taken Tuesday morning–an Oral Language test. Remember, these tests are just one view of your student’s academic growth. Combined with class work and looked at over the years, they give you an idea of your child’s academic progress.
This week’s spelling words: soot, crook, shook, could, should. Dolch words: good, would, goo, went, over
This week for math the geometry focus is symmetry. The student’s seem to be enjoying this unit and learning lots of new math vocabulary! Please continue to work with your child on their addition and subtraction facts, counting different money combinations using bills and coins, as well as telling time on a non digital clock.
Our writing focus continues to be opinion. We are writing our opinion about our favorite special area class. Complete oral and written sentences are practiced and expected.
We are revisiting comparing and contrasting different versions of stories as our CAFE strategy. The students are loving hearing different book versions of Stone Soup.
We’ll be reading and viewing slow ways the Earth changes such as erosion.
Enjoy the week 🙂
Late Start tomorrow, Wednesday. School begins at 9:35.
Our class is NWEA testing this week Tuesday and Friday. Next week, Tuesday.
Library books are due Wednesday so new ones can be checked out Thursday.
Spelling words this week: churn, burst, first, third, clerk, her, after, under, together,hurt
We’ll be continuing our geometry unit in math with 3D shapes.
Our writing focus now shifts to opinion writing for the next 3 weeks. They’ll be writing their own opinion on different topics and learning to use appropriate transitions to connect sentences.
The reading strategy for the next few weeks, is reading 2 different versions of a story then comparing and contrasting both.
Enjoy the week!
Happy New Year and Welcome Back!!
I hope you all had a restful but fun and extremely cold break 🙂 Don’t forget to have your child return their reading logs this week. We are also collecting mittens, gloves, hats, scarves for the Mitten Tree donations which will go to the Wayne County Homeless Shelter families. Donations are greatly appreciated.
We’ll get back into our routine with lots of new learning and some carry over from December.
Spelling words this week focus on -r sounds: part, park, sort, short, horse. Dolch words: start, or, work, for, before
Our writing this week will be finishing up our imaginative narrative that was started before break. We’ll be writing and illustrating a final copy. From what I’ve heard so far of their stories, they like writing this type of genre 🙂
Our reading strategy will continue to focus on the point of view of an event of different characters in a fiction story.
We’re starting a new math unit–geometry. The students in the past have always enjoyed this unit because it’s all about shapes.
Social Studies begins a new unit also about living together in a community. Diversity is the lesson for this week.
Landforms continues to be the science topic. What they are, what they’re called and how they are formed and change to create the Earth.
NWEA testing begins for 2nd grade next week Tuesday morning.
Let’s hope for sun and warmth this week 🙂