Week 18

 Dear Parents,

         It was so wonderful to see your children again and get back to work! We are now a class of 17. Miss Herrera has become our third in person teacher in second grade. Our 4 virtual students who joined us last nine weeks have moved into her classroom. They were all very excited to see each other as well! In math we began our unit on numbers to 1,200. We learned how to say them, write them in word form, expanded form, standard form and make a model. In reading we set up our reading groups, seating charts and swapped out our books. If your child has any of the reading books at home, please see that they are returned on Monday. We also took our January istation test. A copy of the report will go home next Friday in your child’s coyote folder with his/her report card if you have chosen a paper copy on Skyward. In writing we learned that a resolution is a promise we make to ourselves about getting better at something or helping others with something we are already good at doing. We then wrote about our New Year’s resolutions. In reading we listened to the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. We filled out a story map together and independently worked on a sequencing activity. We also conducted an experiment with a mitten. Ask your child what we did! In Science we began our unit on fresh and salt water sources. We set up our unit and played a SWAT game identifying the many sources. We also observed samples of fresh and salt water and recorded the properties of each that we discovered in our observation. It was a quick two days, but we are ready for a full week of school next week! We may even have some snow this weekend! I know all the children are keeping their fingers crossed.

• Next week our reading log becomes a reading and math log. We are adding addition practice on Mondays-Thursdays for 5-10 minutes a night to help us learn our math facts. Quizes will be given on Fridays.