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.