May Newsletter
Mrs. Thesing's Second Grade
Valentine's Day Party
Our Valentine's party is just around the corner! Our party is scheduled for Tuesday, February 9th at 1:45. If you would like to send a treat, you are welcome to do so. Please remember when you send Valentine cards or treats to send one for each child in our room. I will send a note home with all their names next week.
Language Arts
What are we working on this month:
- Silent Letters (wr, kn, gn, mb, sc)
- R-controlled Vowels
- Reread for Comprehension
- Compare and Contrast
- Compound Words
- Proper Nouns (Capitalization)
- Cause and Effect
- Writing: Ideas, voice, and Word Choice
- Helping Verbs
- Irregular Verbs
- Inflectional Endings -s, es, ed, ing
- Quotations in speech
- Similes
- Book Titles (Capitalization and underline)
Math Facts
Conferences
Math
What are we working on this month:
- Shortcuts for Adding Three Numbers
- Comparison Number Stories
- Addition and Subtraction Stories
- Subtraction Strategies
- Creating Arrays
- Equal Sharing
- Multiples of Equal Groups
- Division Stories
- Patterns in Doubles and Halves
- Median of a Set of Data
- Frequency Distributions
Science, Social Studies, and Health
This month we are beginning a unit on matter. We are studying the properties of solids, liquids, gases, and how matter can be changed. We are completing this unit with an experiment using Oobleck from Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck. The students' will decide if they think the Oobleck is a liquid or a solid and support their understanding with what they learned in this unit.
Reminders
Birthdays (Jan. & Feb.)
Feb. 14 - Sophia
Calendar
Feb. 4, 8, 9 - Conferences
Feb. 9 - Valentine's Day Party
Feb. 10 - 100th Day of School Celebration
Feb. 11 - No School for Elementary StudentsFeb. 12, 15 - No School
Contact Information
Email: lesliet@mail.albany.k12.mn.us
Website: http://mrsthesing.weebly.com/
Phone: 320-356-7346