Week 14

 Dear Parents,

       Another great week of learning is behind us! In math we started a new unit which began with the skill of understanding the difference between odd and even numbers. We then started looking at beginning multiplication by building towers with snap cubes. We made sure each floor of our tower had an equal number of rooms. This correlates to multiplication because we multiply the number of groups by the number within each group ( the floors and the rooms in our towers). We then realized that multiplication is just repeated addition. We had fun drawing our own array town with various sized buildings.

     In writing we began an expository piece in which we chose our favorite celebration. We are generating the reasons why that celebration is our favorite on a flee map.

     In reading we have been reding Thanksgiving stories and Scholastic News articles about the first Thanksgiving. We have been finding our answers within the text as evidence.

     In science we have been doing investigations with force and motion. We painted with marbles using push and pull movements. We learned the more force we used the faster our marble went. We also observed several experiments in which things could slide, roll, or spin. Many children had never seen a yo-yo! A toy from my youth.

     It has been wonderful wrapping up our fall conferences this week. If you did not get a chance to sign up, or did and missed your time. Feel free to contact me after the break and I would be happy to meet with you.

     I hope you all enjoy a wonderful week with family and friends! I am thankful for my sweet students and families!

 

Important Dates:

         11/9-11/22 CRE Book Fair

11/23-11/27. Thanksgiving Holidays - no school

12/18. Early Release - 11:45AM

 

 

Week 13

 Dear Parents, 

        This week in math we have had fun measuring things in our room with the standard units of inches, feet, yards, centimeters, and meters. We know that if the object hits the halfway mark between two numbers, the measurement rounds up to the larger number.

       In writing we finished up our imaginative stories, our Veteran Acrostic Poems and learned about The tenses of verbs. We also talked about Subject/Verb Agreement and how it just doesn’t sound right when they don’t agree. Congratulations to Austin as his poem was chosen to be read on our Veterans Day tribute!

        In reading we read a scholastic News about Veterans and their important jobs. We focused the rest of the week on a nonfiction story about Wilma Rudolph. We created our own nonfiction text feature book.

          In science we were excited to begin a unit about force and motion. We dug for buried treasure and tested whether our treasure was magnetic or nonmagnetic. We saw how different magnets moved iron filings. We had fun seeing how like poles ( north and north/ south and south) repel each other. Some magnets even seemed to float.

 

Please use the link below to sign up for your child’s Fall Conference. Make sure you put your child’s name and whether you would like a phone conference or would like to meet on Webex in the comments. If you wish to not meet at this time, respond to this e-mail to let me know.  I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s progress.

 

 

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4CAFA82AA02-fall

 

Dear Parents and Families,

The Scholastic Book Fair is open! Join your kids in exploring titles and plots and discovering inspiring characters. Empower them by letting them choose the books to purchase—and bring on the joy of reading!

Remember, every dollar you spend will benefit our school directly (25% back in rewards!).

Be sure to visit the Fair during our allotted dates:

November 9-22

Visit the fair here: http://bit.ly/CREvirtualBF

 

Some amazing features of our online store:

·         Over 6,000 items, including new releases, best sellers, and value packs

·         A Virtual Fair shopping experience

·         All orders ship direct to home

·         FREE shipping on book-only orders over $25

This is also a great opportunity to support our teachers by donating books!  Please visit our teacher wish lists here:  http://bit.ly/CREtwishlist

Week 12

  Dear Parents,

         We had another wonderful week of learning! In math we focused on measuring- first with nonstandard measuring tools and then with inches, feet and yards. In writing we continued revising/editing/publishing our imaginative stories and wrote an acrostic poem about veterans. In reading we read two folktales (which are a kind of fable). They were in the form of a drama. We took a comprehension check after reading them several times and forming mental images. In Science we continued exploring forms of energy by watching Discovery Streaming videos, writing a CER, playing vocabulary games and then using those words to fill in a cloze procedure. Our assessment was on Friday.

 

Please use the link below to sign up for your child’s Fall Conference. Make sure you put your child’s name and whether you would like a phone conference or would like to meet on Webex in the comments. If you wish to not meet at this time, respond to this e-mail to let me know. I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s progress.

 

 

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4CAFA82AA02-fall

 

 

Please read a letter from our librarian about our Scholastic Book Fair:

 

 

Dear Parents and Families,

The Scholastic Book Fair is open! Join your kids in exploring titles and plots and discovering inspiring characters. Empower them by letting them choose the books to purchase—and bring on the joy of reading!

Remember, every dollar you spend will benefit our school directly (25% back in rewards!).

Be sure to visit the Fair during our allotted dates:

November 9-22

Visit the fair here: http://bit.ly/CREvirtualBF

 

Some amazing features of our online store:

·         Over 6,000 items, including new releases, best sellers, and value packs

·         A Virtual Fair shopping experience

·         All orders ship direct to home

·         FREE shipping on book-only orders over $25

This is also a great opportunity to support our teachers by donating books!  Please visit our teacher wish lists here:  http://bit.ly/CREtwishlist

We can’t wait to “see” you at the Fair!

 

Veronica Hernandez – School Librarian

Week 11

 Dear Parents,

        Red Ribbon Week went well! Thank you for your participation with our daily themes. It was a busy week, but fun was had by all as we learned how to say no to drugs. Mrs. Moore our counselor visited us on Monday to kick off the week. We celebrated on Friday with a program purchased by our Awesome PTA! This virtual program was just what your children needed to end their week.

         In math we began a new unit, but this skill is the second hardest skill in math taught to our second graders. Time to the minute. Please help your child understand how to read an analog clock. We remember the hour hand goes first. It is the short hand. We remember this because hour is a short word- it is only one syllable. The minute hand is the long hand and is the longer word being two syllables. The children will also need to be able to draw the hands on a clock after seeing the digital time. I will be sending practice papers for homework next week. Remind your children that after half past an hour, the hour hand moves in between two numbers. (3:30- the hour hand should be drawn pointing between the three and the four. ) we will continue to work on this skill at school, but our math book has moved on to measuring.

          In writing we continued to work on our imaginative stories as we added and deleted sentences. We learned to combine two sentences to make a longer sentence and to add exact words by using Thesaurus.com.

           In reading we focused on our government: local, state and federal. As we learned about our leaders, where they worked, who they worked with and what their job is, we also learned how to summarize our reading passages. We topped off our week by writing a response about if your child were the President!

            In science we had many fun energy investigations with sound, heat and light. Ask your child what they learned about increasing and decreasing these forms of energy.

 

Thank you to Amanda Burt and Amber Rice for your donations of glue sticks. We are covered for now. Boy/ Girl treasure box items are always welcome! The scented dough and slime were a big hit thanks to Amanda Burt, but are almost gone! This treasure box chart and reward is an excellent way to motivate my second graders.