Mansour playing a part in the second grade’s magic show! 
Mansour shows off his awesome smile during the magic show!
Month: October 2019
Field Trip to The Matthaei Gardens
Suad, Roaiya, Aman, and Hussam standing in the Tropical House 
Students holding extremely large seeds from a sausage tree. 
Suad and Aman in front of a tropical plant! 
Students sitting by the indoor Koi pond.
Fall Fun!
We had so much fun at the petting zoo today!
Lena, Maryam, Adem, and Jawad enjoy petting the calf! 
Sahar and Roaiya enjoy petting the pony! 
Hussam happily petting the donkey! 
The students of room 202 showing their excitement for the petting zoo and pumpkin patch!
PTA Meeting and 1/2 Day on Friday, 11/1!
PTA Meeting will be at 10:00 AM on Friday.
We have 1/2 Day on Friday for all students, school dismissed 11:45 a.m
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Focus for Week of 10/28-11/1
Reading: Students will learn to ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. They will learn to identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
Math: Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. They will understand the following as special cases:
They will learn to count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Students will read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Writing: Students will understand how to write an informative/explanatory text in which they introduce a topic by explaining the definition and purpose of an informative or explanatory text about the Miller garden.
Science: Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
They will learn how different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.
Social Studies: Students will use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale. They will describe land use in the community(e.g. where people live, where services are provided, where products are made). Students will construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and natural characteristics of place.
Digital Book Orders
I am planning to submit the book orders for October by the end of this week. Some students have asked me to share the book orders digitally so I am posting a link to the second grade book flyers. If your child would like to order, be sure to have them turn in the order and money by Friday (10/25).
https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=609281
Focus for Week of 10/21
Reading: Students will learn to ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. They will know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Math: Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. They will understand the following as special cases:
They will learn to count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Students will read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Writing: Students will understand how to write an informative/explanatory text in which they introduce a topic by explaining the definition and purpose of an informative or explanatory text.
Science: Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
They will learn how different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.
Social Studies: Students will use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale. They will describe land use in the community(e.g. where people live, where services are provided, where products are made). Students will construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and natural characteristics of place.
Exploring Science
This week we used screens to practice sorting rocks by their size!
Hussam and Aman work together to scoop different rocks into the screens. 
Khlood practices sifting out the smaller pebbles and sand. 
Maryam and Ayad work together to sort their larger rocks with the screen. 
Akram and Sahar show off their sorted and labeled rocks. 
Roqaya and Alaa show their rocks sorted by size.
Celebrating Teamwork!
Here are some picture of awesome student teamwork! When students work together they learn so much from each other!
Sahar and Roaiya using the glossary to help them understand the bold words in their book. 
Adem and Jawad working together exploring the glossary of their book. Adem is reading and Jawad is writing.
Measurement Excitement
As we finish up our measuring math unit this week, here are some students who have shown how fun and exciting measuring can be!
Aman and Suad practice measuring a pencil. Suad sees how surprising some lengths can be! 
Sahar carefully measures her pencil to get an exact length! 
Mrad and Adem show us how using a measuring tape can be useful to measure round objects, like Adem’s head!