Week of September 3-6, 2013

Language Arts

Question of the Week:What can we learn by exploring space?

Phonics: long vowels with the VCe pattern

Spelling Words: page, nose, space, size, fine, mice, late, huge, blaze, race, rice, vote, live, move, work

Conventions: subject of the sentence

Story of the Week: Exploring Space with an Astronaut

Comprehension Skills: main idea and details

Writing: finishing our personal narrative and beginning expository nonfiction

Math

- identifying coins and their values

-coin equivalencies

-counting in more than one way

-using data to represent, interpret, and compare

-using patterns in numbers

-developing fluency with plus 1 and plus 2 numbers

Science

-butterfly life cycle

-continue observing our 3 chrysalises in hopes that they are butterflies by the end of the week

-space

This Week in 2nd Grade

We have some hard workers in 2nd grade!

Here students work in a group to observe and record the differences they noticed between pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

As we study butterflies, we attempt to identify some other than the monarch. This poster has been on my door since the beginning of the school year. A teacher close by thought she knew exactly how she could name our butterflies...Beth, Julia, etc. I must say we enjoyed the joke!!

Students met individually with Mrs. Krause as she observed their counting skills. We counted out 60 pennies focusing on the strategies we learned for accurate counting.

 

It has been so fun studying about the life cycle of a butterfly.

The number line in the front of our room comes in handy during our math game, Guess My Number.

Hard at work

This Week in 2nd Grade

Week of Aug 26-30, 2013

Our Week's Objectives

Language Arts

Question of the Week:What can we learn by exploring different communities?

Phonics: short vowels

Spelling Words: rock, list, desk, job, sad, chop, sack, tag, rib, mess, dust, drum, country, friend, someone

Conventions: sentence structure 

Story of the Week: The Twin Club

Comprehension Skills: character, setting, plot

Writing: personal narrative

Math

-comparing quantities

-standard notation

-using number lines and 100 charts to see the relationship between numbers

-counting in more than one way

- identifying coins and their values

Science

-butterfly life cycle

Social Studies

-communities

Goodbye Summer, Hello New School Year

Here is a quick peek into the Krause summer.

Here is a tiny peek into our classroom. 

School Year 2013-2014

I'm so excited to begin another year in 2nd grade! I recently received my class list, and I'm more than pumped to meet this year's students. Welcome, welcome, welcome to all new family and friends as you view our class blog for the first time. Check back weekly for updated posts about our class objectives and pictures of projects and activities.

Saying goodbye to last year's class was tough, but I will once again be able to see them roam the halls of May Overby as 3rd graders!