Second Grade Scoop
Miss Roberts * Stoy School * December 10, 2018
Reading Workshop
“Nature can teach us many things.” We are going to read a realistic fiction story and an informational text that will help us answer the question, “What helps you form an opinion regarding a character?” In The Ugly Vegetables, a girl learns about her neighbors when she plants a garden. We will also see some HUGE plants from real gardens as we read They Really Are GIANT!
Target Vocabulary: blooming, muscles, nodded, plain, scent, shovels, tough, wrinkled
Phonics Skills: Double consonants and -ck-; double consonants (CVC)
Vocabulary Strategy: Homophones
Comprehension Skill: Conclusions – use details to figure out more about the text
Comprehension Strategy: Analyze/evaluate – tell how you feel about the text and why
During on of our mini-lessons, the students will be introduce to a "recipe" for an amazing paragraph. It was developed with the help of one of my former students. The students will learn the "ingredients" and "directions" to follow in order to write a complete paragraph. It will help scaffold their ideas and help to organize their sentences. It will quickly become a class favorite!
Writing Workshop
Last week, the students completed their final opinion piece. They each wrote an authentic 4 star book review to their pen pal at Jennings School. We will be sending them over early this week.
During Writer's Workshop the students will be working on a special project...wink, wink. I will not be giving any more details, but the students will be bringing them home to celebrate Winter Break.
Math
The students are learning and practicing how to avoid letting the reading component become a barrier to accomplishing the math goal, which is more about showing what is being asked in a bar model. Once the bar model is created, the “how to solve it” becomes clearer (for example: Are two things being joined together, taken apart, or compared?). In class we have techniques to compensate in order to avoid getting hung up on some of the language and steps to help students represent the information visually.
- When names are unfamiliar, students are prompted to change the name in order to successfully read through the whole problem. Ultimately, we are trying to simplify the language to enable them to relate to it
- Problems should be read multiple times so students can describe or retell what is being asked.
- After reading the problem, rewrite the question into a statement to identify what they need to solve. Here is an example:
- Creating the bar-model is the next step. Each bar should be made and labeled one at time based on details from the story.
- Once the bar model is illustrated or represented, the correlating numbers from the story are placed in the labeled bar
- Finally, look at the completed bar model and identify whether they are putting things together, taking things part, or comparing them.
- They will know looking at completed bar model which operation is needed:
* If they know a part and a part – they add to find the whole;
* If they know a part and a whole – they subtract to find the other part.
Social Studies
Coming Soon
December 11th, 12th, 13th - Student Coundil Smencil Sale at lunch; $1.00 per Smencil
December 13th - Unit 4 Math Test
December 14th - Stoy School's Holiday Concert
December 20th - Denim Day and Pretzel Sale
December 21st - Half Day & Report Cards distribution
December 24th - January 1st - Winter Break