Mrs. Turley's Tidbits
We're Learning Our 2nd Grade Routines - 9/6 - 9/9/16
This week has been short but FUN and FABULOUS!
Literacy: We began the Launch Unit for our Schoolwide curriculum. This focuses on reading for meaning. We started our Readers' Notebooks which will be a place for them to write about their reading. Their covers of these notebooks are as COLORFUL as they are!
Math: The students are LOVING Reflex Math. We've heard that many students are doing it at home also. That's great news! This week we practiced using rulers to measure items around our classroom. We experimented with inches vs. centimeters too. We had our first "Banking Day" to cash in the coins they earned for good behavior and shop in the Treasure Drawers! It was good skill-building for identifying coins, counting coins, and trading coins for equivalent coins. Please continue to work on identifying coins and counting money with your second grader as this is another skill that appears in all our math units and assessments all year long.
Writing Workshop: This was a week of establishing our "workshop" routine for writing. I put on my "writer's tools" apron and explained the expectations for the components of the workshop. We used our Tiny Topics notebook as a place to write story ideas for our "small moment" narratives. We discussed the importance of having a bold beginning, a mighty middle, and an excellent ending. Please take a walk or two down your family's "memory lane" to help your child think of some small moments that they might like to work on during Writing Workshop. I'm looking forward to some interesting reads!
Golden Birthdays for Liam and Soleil...8 yrs old on the 8th!
You Can Be Someone's Hero! Thanks for reminding us Kevin!
Fluency Practice...Let's Go Girls!
2nd Grade Super Hero Theme - You Can Be Someone's Hero with Sportsmanship!
Rosemary Turley
Email: turleyr@woodridge68.org
Website: www.woodridge68.org
Location: 2525 Mitchell Drive, Woodridge, IL, United States
Phone: 630-969-2390
Twitter: @turleyrfox