Week of November 18-22, 2013

This Week's Objectives

Language Arts

Question of the Week: When does support from others help with a creative idea?

Comprehension Skills: author's purpose, compare and contrast, fluency

Story of the Week:  Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends

Conventions: verbs

Phonics: long /e/ using e, ee, ea, and y

Spelling Words: read, feet, easy, deep, seat, party, wheel, leave, windy, sleep, teeth, team

Writing: Animal fantasy stories comparing and contrasting characters

Math

-solving problems with unknown change

- developing strategies for solving addition and subtraction story problems

-retelling stories to match given equations

-considering a relationship between addition and subtraction

-investigation numbers that can and cannot be made into groups of two or two equal groups

This Week in 2nd Grade

Math

Our new unit on number sense begins with addition story problems. We write the equation that represents the math story. Here are a few different ways students solved 24 +12.

We worked with partners to play a new game called Close to 20. Everyone is dealt 5 cards. We must chose three that can be added together equaling as close to 20 as possible. Then we record our equation, our answer, and how close to 20 we were able to get.

 Art

Students listen to instructions from our awesome art teacher.

Language Arts

We have been spending this week reviewing all of unit 2. Here a student fills in the blank with high frequency words we have been studying.

 Science

 Our science unit on matter is coming to a close. We have been learning about the properties of solids, liquids, and gasses. 

Gym

Students are working on balance and gymnastic skills during gym class this week. 

Week of November 11-15, 2013

Language Arts: 

Unit 2 Review

Reading- reviewing comprehension skills, compare and contrast, cause and effect, facts and details, author's purpose, and summarizing

Conventions- reviewing nouns, proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, plural nouns that change spelling, and possessive nouns

Phonics-  review of r-controlled vowels, contractions, plurals, and words with long /a/ using a, ai, ay

Spelling Words- review of high frequency words from unit 2

said, break, pull, great, laugh, worse, above, there, whole, people, sign, scared, behind, they're, sorry

Writing- comparing and contrasting two characters, correcting run-on sentences, writing fluency

Math:

- fluency with near doubles facts 

-visualizing and modeling story problems

-strategies for addition to 45

-reordering numbers in a subtraction sentences

-developing strategies for subtraction

-story problems with unknown change

example: ( 17 - ? = 9 )

This Week in 2nd Grade

 Gym Class

We worked on tumbling in gym class this week.

When a student successfully climbs the ladder or the rope, they get to add their name to the poster on the wall. We were very excited with how many students got to sign their name! 

Go Second Graders!

Language Arts

Possessive nouns can be very difficult for second graders, especially when we get into plural possessives. We practiced quite a bit and will review again next week.

Here students are working together on cutting out turkey feet to complete their writing project! We wrote persuasive stories about a turkey who tries to convince his farmer NOT to eat them for Thanksgiving.

 Veteran's Day Program

We are excited for our Veteran's Day Program. Thank you student council!

Reading to Someone

Reading to someone takes practice. We always go over the rules and what it should look like when we are reading to someone. We want to make sure we sit EEKK (elbow to elbow and knee to knee). We put the book in the middle so we both can see. We practice being good listeners and how to offer help when our partner is unsure of a word.

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Guided Reading

It's always great having an extra set of hands in the classroom during guided reading. Here is our volunteer student from NSU who visits on Tuesdays!

 Math

We have been preparing for a math test on number strings (more than two addends in an equation). Here are our hard working 2nd graders as they take that math test.

Our 100 chart on our name plate comes in handy often during math class.

Week of November 4-8, 2013

   

Our Objectives for the Week:

Language Arts
Question of the week: How can we work together to solve problems?

Story of the week: One Good Turn Deserves Another: A Mexican Folk Tale

Comprehension Skill: compare and contrast

Phonics Skill: Long /a/ using a, ai, and ay

Spelling Words: main, wait, say, away, play, raise, brain, paint, stay, today, tray, tail, behind, they're, sorry

Conventions: possessive nouns

Math

-relating doubles to near doubles

- using the calculator as a math tool

-using known combination to add 2 or more numbers

-compare a number to 20 to find the difference

-visualizing, retelling, and modeling the action of a variety of addition situations

Science

- understanding the properties of matter

-changes in matter

This Week in 2nd Grade

Math Workshop

The time after our math lesson is dedicated to math workshop time. Students work at math centers completing math games that help us with our fact fluency. You might also notice that it was hat day!

On one of our last days of our geometry unit, we had the chance to make our own rectangular prisms. It took teamwork to align and tape the faces just right.

Special Surprise

A band from NSU came to entertain us with jazz music during our lunch time. 

Language Arts

Here we are working hard to follow along with our story of the week. We are in deep concentration, I don't think they even noticed I was taking a quick picture! We have a classroom Grandma hidden in the back of the picture. She helps us for about a half hour every day! We really appreciate her help.