Grade Two News
Exeter-Milligan Public Schools
Our First Full Week
This week went by fast! Routines are becoming well-established. Students have quickly learned our schedule (especially knowing which days they have P.E.). Grade 2 will have P.E. and Music on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Library is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon and Friday is our day for Art. A full schedule will be provided for you.
Homework Partners
Each morning, students have a chance to check over their homework with a partner before turning it in. Students returning their daily homework receive a point in Class Dojo.
Responsibility
Another morning routine is signing up for lunch. Students read the menu and record their choice for lunch.
Checklist
Students can check to see if they are prepared for the day by looking over the Morning Checklist.
Math
This week, students practiced the doubles facts. Learning how to read a clock to the nearest hour was also reviewed. Students noticed the similarities and differences of pattern blocks. They learned the proper names for each (square, triangle, hexagon, parallelogram or rhombus, and trapezoid). This next week, students will have their first fact assessment. Fact assessments are timed tests so committing the facts to memory is important. Please remind your child to practice the doubles facts.
Writing
Students have many opportunities to write in Second Grade. This week, the students wrote a group story based on a drawing. They learned the importance of adding adjectives to make a story interesting.
Using an interactive editing program on the SmartBoard, second graders learn how to look for errors in sentences and make necessary changes.
Today's Meet, a website, was the method in which students recorded the goals they have set for the beginning of the year. Today's Meet is a back channeling tool that allows all the students to respond and view their classmates comments immediately.
How excited the students were to start cursive this week!! The lowercase i and t were practiced.
Social Studies and Science
Three types of communities were introduced in Social Studies this week. Attributes of rural, suburban and urban areas were discussed.
In Science, students have begun learning about what living things need. Students learned how plants make food.