Hello Second Grade Families,
I hope everyone had a fun break. The class and I have had a busy week
back. Here are something concepts the
students have been practicing and working on:
In social studies that students are well into another
project based learning unit. In the last
three days the students have been divided into four groups to design and create
a geo-state model. In this model the
students will show the differences in landscapes, populations, as well as
resources in rural, suburban, and city communities. Their brainstorms and first designs look wonderful!
In math, the class is continuing to practice counting and
identifying coins and being able to add all kinds of coins up to 100. The students are also learning about how much
change back they would receive in a transaction with different dollar and cents
amounts. The class is also continuing to
progress learning about different fractions like ½, 1/3, ¼, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, or 1/8. Throughout the rest of the year the students
will also continue to strengthen their measurement skills of using centimeters,
inches, feet, and yards.
The students have been doing an incredible job reading. I will be giving out prizes at the end of the
school year for the top readers (starting from this week after April break
until the last week of school). All the
students in the class have made so much progress with their fluency and
comprehension of the stories we have read together, the books they have read
independently, as well as in small groups.
Everyone should be very proud of their dedication and hard work.
We only have 6 more spelling quizzes for the rest of the
year. We will not do a spelling quiz on
the last week of school. The kids have
been doing a fantastic job sorting their words and practicing their spelling
concepts. Their quizzes have been
awesome!
The students are now transitioning into writing opnion
pieces. The students will be writing
about their favorite season, what they think is the best pet as well as many
other topics pertaining to their opinion.
Currently hanging on our bulletin board, are the informational writing
papers about the person each student learned about at the 5th grade
biography fair, and their animal report they completed before the
vacation. Come check out our board if
you haven’t yet! The students did
fantastic water colored paintings of their animals, as the cover page to their
animal report.
The students have been continuing to learn about the parts
of a plant and how photosynthesis happens to make a plant grow. (Unfortunately our mystery science chia pets
did not grow and the week vacation probably did not help). However the students will still have other
opportunities to watch plants grow in other classroom activities and through
growing change before the year is done.
The Friday before break I handed out a Seesaw activation
code for parents to look at their students work for the remainder of the school
year. Thank you to those who have already
activated their parent app through your cell phone or computer. If you lost your code or it is not working
properly, let me know so I can make sure you can access your child’s work.
We will be going to the HOP on May 6th to see a
play about Jane Goodall. Thank you to
those who already turned in their money to me or to Mrs. Wood. If I could get all the field trip money by
next Wednesday, May 1s that would be great.
Just so parents are aware, the students have been discussing
with Mrs. Garfield (our school counselor) the importance of knowing your
address and home phone number in case of an emergency. Mrs. Garfield has also been teaching and
discussing the importance of knowing adults, you can trust in case you are in
an uncomfortable or an emergency situation.
These are very important and big topics for second graders and they have
been doing a wonderful job in class council.
As always, if there are any questions or concerns please
feel free to email me.
Thanks so much and I hope everyone has a nice night.
Sincerely,
Ms. Mac
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