2nd Grade Class News
Mrs. Gaudette, Miss Holden, Mrs. Karstaedt, Mrs. Mitchell
Week of January 4, 2016
Reader's Workshop
Bigger Books = Amp Up Reading Power
Students will begin a new unit in reading in which we will start to read different types of texts. As they begin reading new books students will be retaught how to read a fictional text with expressive voices with fluency. Later on, they will learn how to read smoothly as well as rereading and using a voice that we believe most resembles our characters.
Fundations
This week, students will learn more in depth about the r-controlled vowels, er, ir, and ur. Students will learn that these three r-controlled vowels all make the same sound. Examples of these r-controlled vowels within words are:
- er - her
- ir - bird
- ur - burn
Writer's Workshop
Poetry: Looking at Objects with Poet's Eyes
This week student's will begin their unit on poetry by looking at normal everyday objects with 'poet's eyes'. Students will begin to learn news ways of looking at objects such as a stapler and then writing about it with a type of 'music' that makes their writing fluid and harmonic. Consistent with other units of writing, students will learn these writing moves from mentor authors as they indulge in reading numerous works of poetry.
Math
Reviewing for Our Math Benchmark
Students will review all standards they have learned since the beginning of the year. By the middle/end of January, students will take the County's Math Assessment.
These standards include:
- Measuring objects and comparing measurement data
- Using addition and subtraction to solve one and two-step word problems
- Read and write numbers using base ten blocks, expanded form and word form
- Place value
- Skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s
- Compare two three-digit numbers using <, >, or =
- Add and subtract within 100 using addition and subtraction strategies and explain these strategies
- Recognize and draw shapes
Social Studies & Science
We are beginning our study on weather to kick-off the new year! In particular, students will begin by learning about the main stages of the water cycle (condensation, precipitation, accumulation). They will learn in detail what each of these stages are and how they occur.
Specials Schedule
Gaudette
Monday: Art
Tuesday: Computer
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: PE
Friday: Media
Holden
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Media
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Computer
Friday: Music
Karstaedt
Monday: Music
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Media
Thursday: Art
Friday: Computer
Mitchell
Monday: Media
Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Computer
Thursday: Music
Friday: PE
Mark Your Calendars!
January 4th
Student's first day back!
January 18th
Holiday - Martin Luther King Jr Day
January 19th - 20th
No School for Students