2nd Grade Class News
Mrs. Gaudette, Miss Holden, Mrs. Karstaedt, Mrs. Mitchell
Week of January 21 & 22nd
Reader's Workshop
Review of Current Concepts
Students will be reminded this weeks of some of the current concepts we have learned recently. One of these skills will be learning how to recognize who is speaking within our books even when there is no dialogue tag. Lastly, students will have a reading log check-up in which we are reminded of our importance of log ALL books they read.
Fundations
While students continue in Unit 10 as they continue to learn about double vowel teams such as ai and ay. In this short week they will learn about homophones with examples such as main and mane. Lastly, students will practice marking up words with double vowels in them.
Writer's Workshop
Creating a "Mood" and Repetition
This week students will focus on creating "mood" to their poems as well as giving their poems repetition. One poem we will use for an example is listed below. This poem is a good example of "mood" and how our poems can be up-beat and cheerful, while they all may still vary in this way. The poem below was written by a friend who was angry when his friend had to move away and it is a good example of how poetry can be more melancholy.
Poem
How dare he!
Move away?
The nerve.
I could slam the door in his face.
Science & Social Studies
As students continue to learn about and track weather patterns, we will begin to focus on different types of weather. The first type will be a tornado as we learn how they form and what the characteristics are of this powerful storm.
Math
Counting coins up to $1.00
In math, students will review what we learned several weeks ago with adding coins by skip-counting by fives and tens. This will eventually develop into learning how to coin different coins to add up to a dollar or less.
Specials Schedule
Gaudette
Thursday: Media
Friday: Art
Holden
Thursday: Music
Friday: PE
Karstaedt
Thursday: Computer
Friday: Music
Mitchell
Thursday: PE
Friday: Media
Mark Your Calendars!
Monday, January 18th
No School - MLK Jr. day
Tuesday, January 19th & Wednesday, January 20th
No School - Teacher Workday
Friday, February 5th
International Night