Good morning again everyone 🙂

I hope you’re finding everything things a bit easier to find on the 2nd grade folder off the school website.

This morning I set up a class in Read Works with the password for all students: 1234

I also have each students Zearn password if they don’t have it with them at home-I had stapled it inside each one of their planners but I know most don’t have their planners with them now at home.

Feel free to not limit yourself or child to just what we suggested you read or write. Please use this time to explore other topics of interest to both you and your child. Let’s do our best to make the best of this very unique situation. What a great time to have huge chunks of time to just read, write, explore math, and science concepts.

Luckily the weather is getting a bit nicer so don’t forget to play outside for a bit throughout the day. The students are used to 3 recesses a day in addition to time for art, music, and gym throughout the week.

Please remember to keep in touch and feel free to reach out with questions or suggestions. You can either email me or send me a message on Dojo.

I’d also love to hear from your child 🙂

Parents, I just finished loading more phonics games that go with the weekly spelling patterns for our Benchmark Advance reading program. Once your child logs in via the Student Portal off the district website-click on iLearn Classrooms, Mrs. Herrod’s classroom and you’ll find books to read and the phonics games they can play.

Please let me know how it’s working 🙂

Good morning families, During this unusual time we’ll all do the best we can to keep our children’s learning on track.

First, I’ll be doing a DOJO greeting each morning about 9:00 to say hello to my students and see how they are doing. Feel free to contact me with questions and I’ll do the best to answer and help you. Feel free to have them email me or contact me through DOJO.

Please keep checking the Henry Ford website for updates. Our Second grade team has been working to provide links to work you can have your child do to the best of their ability. If you also have workbooks or other appropriate work for them that’s fine also.

As for how to do the work…I think it’s best to have a schedule daily. Choose a subject area (ELA, Math, Science, etc) each day and choose an assignment to work on for a chunk of time 30 min. or so. Then take a 5-10 min break and go back to choose another academic area to work on.

I think it may be best for your child to do some work in each academic area daily like we do at school. Including recess 🙂

So I don’t overwhelm you, please use any of the resources you see on the Second grade folder off the HF website or any others you find that meets your child’s academic needs.

It may be best to keep a daily log in a spiral notebook of the work they do then return that to me when school reopens. If it’s online work like for Zearn Math, write the date, time and work done such as 2 digit addition. Same with other subject areas.

The District would like use to see if your family would need to borrow a device from Dearborn Public Schools? Please reply and let me know either by email or DOJO. They’d like a reply by this afternoon.

Hang in there! And remember, I’m here to help you the best I can. Please reach out if needed.

We are running low on kleenex so if anyone can send in a box of tissues, the students will appreciate it.

1/2 day this Friday March 13. School dismisses at 11:45–no lunch will be served.

Our reading strategies continue from last week focusing on key details in a text, making connections with the text, using words and illustrations to better understand the characters, determining the characters point of view, as well as the central theme or message of the text.

Spelling words were given last week due to the snow days. They are: book, look, cook, shook, foot, good, stood, wood, put, push. Test will be Wednesday.

The students are doing well planning a narrative story. This week they each will be working on developing strong main character traits and thinking about how their character’s actions and feelings change from the beginning of the story to the end.

Math continues learning strategies for adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers up to 1,000. Please continue to have your child practice their basic math facts as this will help with this new skill.

In our social studies unit we’re learning about how government effects our daily lives: making laws for our community, providing services, keeping us safe, and helping to solve problems. This week we’ll be discussing how the core democratic values get balanced with the common good of a community using a book called Old Henry.

Any of you are welcome to come in to read to our class. We would love it and I can have a book ready for you to read or you can bring one of your own. Just let me know 🙂

Enjoy the week!

What a great evening. If you didn’t make it this year, please plan to join us next year 🙂

March is reading month, so it’s time again to have guests come into our classroom and read a story to our class. The students and I would love it if any of you would come visit our class and read a short story. It could be one you loved as a child or one your child enjoys reading. Please let me know if you’re interested and I’ll be in touch to make arrangements. 🙂

Thanks for helping us become better readers!

Happy March! Happy Reading Month 🙂

Due to the 2 snow days last week, our reading/spelling will continue into this week. The spelling test will now be tomorrow and we’ll begin a new unit on Wednesday with a new set of words.

Our writing unit mirrors the reading: narrative. Each student will write a fiction story of their choice for the next couple of weeks.

Our math continues with using our addition and subtraction strategies to work with numbers greater than 100 but less than 1,000. Continue to have your student practice their basic math facts for quicker fluency with the larger numbers.

Social studies continues with our learning about how the government works in communities. This week will be learning more about local government and the services they provide as well as the difference between private action (done by an individual) vs government action.

Science will continue learning about the Earth’s surface changes.

Below you will find the link for Dearborn’s Teacher nominations. If your child would like to nominate a teacher they’ve had, it can be done here. If this link doesn’t work, it can be found off the Dearborn schools website. A great way to honor a former or current teacher from any special area as well.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DWpEQWTFrJg_Uoq2Fou-FjSbhN89Wu4V4Dsy3pk8zWc/viewform?edit_requested=true

Enjoy your week 🙂

Welcome Back 🙂 I hope everyone had an enjoyable week off. Hopefully, you rested and had some fun throughout the week.

We’re back for a full week and so hard to believe it’s the last week of February.

We’re beginning a new reading/writing unit called Tales to Live By. The focus question is What can different cultures teach us? The reading strategy is summarizing and synthesizing a story. The spelling words are: too, soon, fruit, new, grew, blue, true, truth, July, shoe. Our writing for the next 3 weeks will focus on narrative fiction and students will write a story of their choice.

We’ll also be starting a new math unit that will focus on strategies for adding and subtracting within 1,000. It will build on the previous strategies learned for adding and subtracting.

This week for social studies we continue learning about the 3 branches of government and the people who run our city.

Science continues our learning about how Earth’s quick changes of the surface: earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes.

Lots of learning happening 🙂 Enjoy your week!

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Each student has their log in information in their planner.