Second Grade News You Can Use
September 8-11, 2015
A Note From Mrs. Graham
The next amazing thing our second graders did this week is app smashing. They learned how to create numbers and represent them in 5 different ways using one app. Then, they screen shot their work. Finally, they uploaded their work onto Showbie. Showbie is a paperless classroom app I use to assign, collect, and grade work. This is so much more fun then doing a worksheet.
Finally, the second graders dabbled in authoring humorous fiction books. They showed their creativity and wit as they created Diary of a .... stories using Doreen Cronin books as their example. The humor is shown not only in the text, but in the illustrations, too. Some of the student authors were able to share their work with us on Friday afternoon. I could see examples of many of the techniques that Cronin used in her books. We talked about those again as the children used them and as the others recognized those features in the handmade books.
Conner + Ipad = Learning
Mrs. McClary Reads to Us
Oh, How We Miss Freddy Fox!
IMPORTANT DATES
September 9th-Prize Day
September 11th-Last Turn in Day (could possibly be extended)
September 16th-CONFERENCE DAY (Follow the link to sign up for an available time. Contact me if none of those times work for your family)
SPELLING
spin, clap, grade, swim, place, last, test, skin, drag, glide, just, stage
Challenge words will be in planner this week. They will be numbers 13 and 14 on the list.
READING
Essential Question: How is a school like a community?
Comprehension Skills: Story Structure and Author's Word Choice
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
High Frequency Words: (flash cards if needed) both, cold, eat, find, green, little, long, says, table, we
New Vocabulary: wonderful, noises, quiet, sprinkled, share, noticed, bursting, suddenly
Vocabulary Strategy: Base Words and Endings -ed and -ing
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
AR Tests-When your child is ready to take a test (after reading the book three times), then write the title of the book in your child's planner on the day you want the test taken. We will do our best to take the test that day.
MATH
We are finishing Lesson 1.7- Problem Solving Tens and Ones. We will cover Lesson 1.8- Counting Patterns Within 100. We hope to also cover Lesson 1.9- Counting Patterns Within 1,000. Once we finish Lesson 1.9, we will be ready for our first official Math test in Second Grade. I have assessed them as we have been working through this chapter. I do not move to the next section until we are ready. Do not fret about the test, they will be ready.