Week of Sept. 1st

Happy Labor Day! - No School Monday

This week we will be exploring space while working on text structure, main idea, and details.  In phonics and spelling we will be working on words with long vowels.  In Language Arts we will be learning about the writing process and working on recognizing what the subject of a sentence is.  In math we will continue to work on addition strategies.  In Social Studies we are learning about our world.

Welcome to 2nd Grade!- Week of August 25th

It has been so much fun getting to know your child.  We have a lot of interesting concepts to learn this year. The next 5 weeks in reading our stories will be about exploration.  This week we will be reading the story Iris and Walter while exploring urban and rural communities.  We will also work on short vowels and character and setting.  In Language Arts we will be learning how to write a great sentence.  In social studies we will be learning about where we live in the world.  In Math we are working on strategies to master addition facts.  Please practice xtra math and your spelling words at home.

Week of April 7th

This week we will be reading a realistic fiction story called A Birthday Basket for Tia while working on summarizing and drawing conclusions.  In phonics and spelling we will be working on words with suffixes tion and ture.  In Language Arts we will be learning when to use a comma and finish our dinosaur reports.  We will be creating our dinosaurs and making a diorama for our dinosaurs.  In math we will start 3 digit addition and subtraction.

Week of March 31st

This week we will be reading the story Red, White, and Blue while working on fact and opinion.  We will also be working on reading and spelling words with inflected endings.  (words with ed and ing)  In Language Arts we will be learning how to use quotation marks and writing a research paper on a specific dinosaur.  In Science we will be spending time learning more about fossils.  In math we will continue working on place value.