Exploring Science

This week we used screens to practice sorting rocks by their size!

Celebrating Teamwork!

Here are some picture of awesome student teamwork! When students work together they learn so much from each other!

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!

Focus for 10/14 Week

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: Students will use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1 They will fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

Writing: Students will write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. Our students will use mentor texts to guide them with their narrative writing.

Science: Students will conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
Students will learn that 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).

Field Trip

We are going on our first field trip at the end of the month!! We will be going to the Matthaei Gardens on October 29th. Students will get their permission slips this week. Please fill it out and return it with $4 as soon as possible. Each student needs to pay $4 and each chaperone $6. We can have 3-4 chaperones so please let me know if you are interested.

Focus for Week of 10/7-10/11

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: Students will measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit. They will measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen. Students will use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Writing: Students will write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. Our students will use mentor texts to guide them with their narrative writing.

Science: Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
Students will learn that 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).

Focus for the week of 9/30

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: Students will measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit. They will measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen. Students will use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Writing: Students will write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Science: Students will learn about the structure and properties of matter. Students will learn that different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Also, matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.

Social Studies:  Students will distinguish between physical(trees, clouds, weather) and human(buildings, playground, sidewalks) characteristics of places. They will also describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas within the local community. They will learn that a community is a place where people live, work and play.

Clever and Zearn!

If your child is trying to go on Clever or Zearn at home, they must be logged into their Dearborn Schools Gmail account on the browser. Their email address is their student number @gmail.com. Their password is their school password. All students use these everyday, therefore they should know them. If they forget I taped them into their take home folders.

example:

student number: 12345

12345@gmail.com

Focus for the week of 9/23-9/27

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 use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Math: Students will practice and learn to measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

Writing: Students will write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Science: Students will learn about the structure and properties of matter. Students will learn that different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Also, matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.

Social Studies:  Students will distinguish between physical(trees, clouds, weather) and human(buildings, playground, sidewalks) characteristics of places. They will also describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas within the local community. They will learn that a community is a place where people live, work and play.