Fun at the Zoo

The students had fun learning about animals and their habitats! They learned a lot about animals and their habitats in our zoo class. The students took many pictures of animals and over the next few weeks, they will be using the pictures to make stories in StoryKit on the iPads. 

Mini-Writing Celebration!

Yesterday, we had a little writing celebration. The students have been working hard writing personal narratives. We've been looking at great writers like Jane Yolen and Donald Crews and trying some of their writing craft in our stories. The students are trying to zoom in on a small moment write all the details. Second graders are expected to write complete sentences with a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence and an end punctuation mark. The students should capitalize the names of people and edit for spelling using our Word Wall.  Here's a few pictures of our mini- writing celebration. 

Visualizing

The students have been learning a new comprehension strategy called "Visualizing".  Visualizing is the running picture or movie in your mind as you read. To practice this strategy, I've been reading aloud to the students so they can picture the poem in their mind.  Students have to be good at visualizing before moving to chapter books that have fewer pictures. 

Math Review

We've been reviewing all the addition and subtraction strategies. The Chapter 1 test is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 23rd.  Your child should have brought home the math review sheet so they can review some more tonight.

Puppet Pals

It was great hearing about all the fun the students had with their puppet pals last weekend. I'm looking forward to Monday morning when I get to hear about all the fun this weekend!

Congratulations Shaadi!

Shaadi has been working on Xtramath.org at home over the last several weeks.  I'm pleased to announce that she completed the first level of Addition Fact Fluency! She's now working on Subtraction. I'm so proud of her hard work! When I asked her how often she practiced to complete this level, she said "I practiced every day, but one".  Congratulations Shaadi!

Math News

We've been working learning about related facts and fact families.  Tomorrow and Thursday the students will be learning about two-step word problems.  We will review all the addition and subtraction strategies on Friday and Monday. Our chapter test will be on Tuesday, September 23rd. After the students finish their "On their Own" page, they go to their math stations.  The students enjoyed the new activities today.