Second Grade Scoop
Miss Roberts * Stoy School * November 19th & 26th, 2018
Reading Workshop
"It's the most wonderful time of the year!" Believe it or not, when we return from Thanksgiving, there are only four weeks until winter break. We will be busy as elves trying to accomplish many lessons and activities. This week, we will be reviewing and practicing many of the lessons and concepts that have been introduced and learned throughout Unit 1 of Journeys. There are many types of communities discussed and we will celebrate all that we have learned. Each main selection story will be displayed and the students will have an opportunity to share their favorites. Throughout the next several days, each child will complete the unit assessments. I will use the results to help drive instruction and smaller group strategy lessons.
To help keep everyone practicing reading strategies, the class will listening to the second Gooney Bird Greene story, Gooney Bird and the Room Mother. Throughout the story, the students will have opportunities to make connections, compare and contrast, retell, and author's purpose. To celebrate Thanksgiving, we will read multiple holiday stories including Thanksgiving at the Tappleton's. The students will also participate in a Reader's Theater which is a dramatic presentation of a book in a script form. The students read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. No memorization or costumes are needed. \ The students will focus on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures. Making comprehending the text meaningful and fun for the everyone!
The handwriting we are focusing on is "dive-down" letters. It's important that the students begin their letter at the top, "dive down and swim back up," meaning trace the original line before completing writing the letter. The lowercase "dive down letters" are: p, r, n, m, h, and b. Please remind your second grader that all of the "dive down letters" bump the line except the p. The lowercase letter p sinks below the line.
Writing Workshop
Math
As a class, we will be working on building addition and subtraction fact fluency. We will be using Ten-Frames to visualize the value of numbers. Our practice will start with facts up to and including 10. Our goal is to understand that numbers can be composed and decomposed using different number combinations. For example: 6 can be composed with 3 and 3, 4 and 2, 5 and 1, and 0 and 6. Five to ten minutes will dedicated to this practice before each daily lesson. If you'd like to visit the link below, there are various games and activities you support this skill.
The students will use everything they've learned in units 1, 2, and 3 and apply it to word problems in unit 4 "Using Bar Models: Addition and Subtraction." In this chapter, the students will learn strategies such as adding-on and taking-away sets represented by bar models to solve addition and subtraction problems. They will also learn to compare two models to solve more complex addition and subtraction problems. A combination of all these strategies is used in solving two-step real-world problems.
Unit 4 Using Bar Models; Addition and Subtractions
Lesson 1: Using Part-Part-Whole in Addition and Subtraction (2 days)
- Using bar models to solve addition and subtraction problems
- Applying the inverse operations of addition and subtraction
Lesson 2 - Adding On and Taking Away Sets (2-days)
- Model addition as joining sets
- Model subtraction as taking away
- Apply the inverse operations of addition and subtraction
- Vocabulary: join * set * take away
- Model addition and subtraction as comparing sets
- Apply the inverse operations of addition and subtraction
- Vocabulary * compare
Tem Frame Example
Part - Part - Whole Bar Model
Comparison Bar Model
Social Studies
Social Expectations
Look Who's Getting Older
Coming Soon
November 19th, 20th, and 21st - Half Days; bring a healthy snack
November 15th - 16th, 19th, and 20th - Conferences
November 22nd and 23rd - No School; Happy Thanksgiving