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Important Dates:
December 2 –Native
American Presentations (In-School Field Trip)December
18 –
Fire Safety Presentations
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 Reminders
and Notes
Field Trip:
Please remember to send in $5.00 for your child to
attend the Native American In-School Field Trip. If you
have concerns about sending in payment by Wednesday,
November 26, please discuss it with your child’s
teacher.
COLD
Outdoor Weather:
We continue to go outside for recess. Your child will
wear whatever you send them to school in. Long sleeved
shirts are not sufficient clothing to keep your child
warm at recess.
Word Study:
Please recheck your child’s word study homework before
they bring it back to school to be sure they are
completing their work correctly and utilizing correct
punctuation and beginning capital letters. Students are
practicing their spelling for this activity so all Word
Study words should always be spelled correctly.
Cold, Dry Air:
The air in the school is very dry this time of the year.
Please send a water bottle in with your child, daily to
keep them hydrated. Many students are experiencing
chapped lips and skin as well. You may want to consider
giving your child a stick of chap stick and/or a small
bottle of lotion to keep in their backpack to use on
dry, cracked skin. Their lips and hands will thank you!
What’s
happening in Second Grade?
Annual Fire Safety Program:
This program will be presented by Technician Gomez from
our local fire department. She will present fire safety
tips and strategies to identify and prevent fire
hazards. She will also discuss the Fire Safety video
students watched in class and the Home Fire Escape plans
that students completed for homework last week.
Native American presentation (In-School
field trip):
Students will travel throughout five different rooms to
take part in different activities such as creating totem
stones, talking feathers, sand painting, weaving and
enjoying Native American treats. This will enrich
students’ understanding of the Native American culture
for our study of this unit throughout December.
National Young Reader Day:
Students enjoyed listening to various readers from the
community to take part in National Young Reader’s day.
What are
we learning (current concepts)?
(Essential questions/concepts you can
discuss with your child.)
Language Arts
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What is a noun, verb, adjective?
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List some plural nouns.
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Take some writing from home or create a
new writing piece. Take it through the writing
process.
1- Prewriting (planning)
2- Drafting (writing)
3- Revising (rereading)
4- Editing (fixing mistakes)
5- Publishing (Rewriting, sharing and
celebrating)
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Discuss topics at home that students can
use for ideas to write about in class.
Math
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Find items that are symmetrical.
- Locate objects at home that are 3D shapes.
(ex. cone, cylinder, sphere, square pyramid, cube,
rectangular pyramid)
Social Studies/Science
(Magnets)
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What can
magnets
do?
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Locate objects at home that are
magnets,
work with magnets, or are affected by magnets.
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What is a
magnetic compass
and what does it do?
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How is the
Earth
a giant
magnet?
What’s coming up (future concepts)?
(Essential questions and concepts you can
discuss with your child.)
Language Arts
- Try to list antonyms (words that mean the
opposite) of your word study words.
- Try to list synonyms (words that mean the same)
of your word study words.
Math
- What strategies can we use to solve 2- digit addition
and subtraction problems?
-How can we use our understanding of place value
(hundreds, tens, ones) to solve addition and subtraction
story problems?
Social Studies/Science
(Native
Americans)
- What are 3 regions of our
country, where Native Americans lived? (Eastern
Woodlands, Plains, Southwest) Locate them on
a map of the
USA.
- Which Native American groups (tribes)
lived in each region? How did they live?
(Powhatan, Sioux, Pueblo)
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 Ms.
Mangan’s Memos
I can’t believe the first marking period
has come to an end! It is amazing to see how far the
students have come since the first week of school. The
students are currently taking part in an interactive
writing piece. I read the story “Cloudy With a Chance of
Meatballs” aloud to the class. Now we are working
together to summarize the story. As students take turns
writing details (from the beginning, middle and end) on
the chart paper, the rest of the class is writing on
their individual white boards. This is a fun,
interactive way to utilize our strategies for forming
sentences, recalling details of a story and spelling
words correctly.
We have just begun our unit on magnets.
The students explored around the classroom with various
types of magnets. They found many objects within our own
classroom that were magnetic! Many of the students
discovered that magnets react in different ways with
other magnets. See what different objects you can
discover at home that are magnetic and share your
findings with the class.
Our class has contributed many
canned/boxed goods to Operation Turkey. Thank you to all
that have donated! A special thank you to our SCA
classroom representatives that count the goods for our
classroom each day!
Mrs. Proch’s Place
Thank you, Thank you everyone as you were supportive
and patient while I was out of school last week.
Finally, we have finished our unit on Economics and now
we are switching gears to learn about topics in
Science. Students have discussed and listed their
wonderings and ideas for Science Experiments this year.
They used their Scientific skills of Observation with
their 5 senses. Students looked at the world around
them through magnifying glasses and made detailed
drawings and descriptions of items in the world. Now on
to MAGNETS! We are all very excited to be learning how
to conduct experiments and answer questions about
magnets. What magnetic items can you find around your
home? Recently, we also paired up with Mrs. Corbin’s
Kindergarten class to establish our Buddy Readers for
the year. They were gracious hosts as we entered their
classroom and read books with them. We can’t wait until
the next time we get to see our Buddy Readers!
-Mrs. Proch-
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What’s happening in
Ms. Hawkins’ class?
Wow! Can you
believe that we are in the second quarter? We have
already accomplished so much as “Quality Learners in the
Second Grade”.
The children have
continued creating wonderful compositions during
Writer’s Workshop. They have been utilizing the writing
process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and
Publishing. The children have also been self evaluating
their writing by using a “child friendly” writing rubric
that covers the three domains of writing: Composing,
Written Expression, and Usage and Mechanics.
Along with Writer’s
Workshop, we will soon begin “Author’s Share.” The
“Author’s Share” will provide children opportunities to
read their favorite stories that they have written to
the entire class. This activity is always a huge hit!
The students have
really enjoyed the Geometry unit. We have been studying
various solids: cube, cone, pyramid, cube, sphere,
and rectangular prism. The children have been
discussing different attributes of these 3-D objects:
faces, bases, and edges.
We have also been
studying objects with symmetry. To determine whether or
not an object has symmetry, the students take small
mirrors and reflective boards, place the mirror in the
middle of the item, and look at the reflection. Then,
the students determine if the reflection is identical to
the other half of the object. If the reflection is
identical, then you have a line of symmetry.
We had a blast on
the first Reward Day (Game Day). The children are
diligently working to earn all of the stones for the
next Reward Day. They have chosen to have a Stuffed
Animal and Movie Day. -Miss Hawkins-
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A little news
from Mrs.
Louderback
I would like to thank all of you for taking the time to
share your thoughts and ideas at conferences. I hope
your children are enjoying using their math books with
you for reference as you complete homework! I do ask
that if your child completes his/her homework without
your assistance that you find a few minutes to let
him/her explain what they have done and review their
work with you. Homework is an extremely important
reinforcement of concepts taught at school as children
revisit what they have learned in the classroom. I wish
you could see how proud they are when they turn in
homework that is the best they can do! Thank you for
all you do to support them in the classroom. Mrs.
Louderback
Look for more
news next month! |
