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Presidents of America Song

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Homework: Please see the new writing homework for February. It is due Friday, March 4th. The math packet and reading log are due on this Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log.

Language Arts/Social Studies: We will continue to find leadership traits and evidence from the text to support the trait. We will work on the vowel team ea/ee in our word work. We will continue to work on opinion writing. We will continue to work on our opinion pieces this week.

Mathematics: We have finished our first workbook. I am sending it home today. You will find that we did not do two chapters. These chapters do not correlate with our second grade curriculum here in Shrewsbury so our district has decided for us to skip these chapters. Certainly they are still good pages if you chose to work with your child on them. We will begin chapter 10 on mental math this week. The students will learn that mental math can be used to find the exact answer in addition and subtraction. Estimation can be used when an exact answer is not needed. The students will learn how to use number bonds to add and subtract two and three digit numbers with and without regrouping. They will also learn how to round numbers to estimate sums and differences and check for reasonableness.

Math night was a lot of fun. Thank you to all of you who were able to attend. I was in charge of the game section for second grade. I am sending home copies of the games to those who weren’t able to make it.

Valentine’s Day Information: Please remember that our Valentine cards need to be candy/snack free.  Thank you for your help with this.  I am sending a list of our classmates for you to help your child make a card for each classmate. 

Supplies:  We just passed the half way point of the school year. It is a good time to check in with your child about his or her Twistables. These are the one item is not a part of our community supplies.  Our classroom community is in need of more tissues, erasers (the block eraser not the pencil toppers) and glue sticks. Thank you in advance to anyone who is able to volunteers to help out our classroom community with supplies.

Ways you can help at home: Read with your child and discus the character traits. Read a biography together. Look for ea/ e words as you read. Practice spelling sight words. Help your child take time to edit for capitals and end marks in their writing in their homework. Go on Greg Tang Math and play some games with your child. Practice asking your child what is 10 more, 10 less, 20 more, 20 less than a number, 100 more and 100 less.  Talk about how to add numbers. Review weekend activities with your child on Sunday night or Monday morning so your child will be ready to write in his or her journal about the weekend.

Meteorologist Pamela Garnder visits with Second Graders

I visited the 2nd graders at Spring Street School in Shrewsbury this morning. We all had fun talking about weather!

Posted by Pamela Gardner on Thursday, January 28, 2016

Weekly News January 11-15, 2016

Homework: You may keep your child’s writing homework at home to work on for the next three weeks. This assignment is due on Friday, January 29th. The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log.

Language Arts: We are reviewing how to make words past tense by adding –ed. We discussed the different sounds used to make the words past tense.  We will work on magic e words. We will continue to read Fables and discuss the character traits in the story. Students will revisit opinion writing. We will review what an opinion is and how to make a fact into an opinion and an opinion into a fact. For example, I lived in a two story house is a fact.  Two story houses are the best kind of house to live is an opinion. The students will write an opinion about the best gift they have received.

Mathematics: We will be reviewing chapter 6 and practice problem solving by going through the following steps: Make sure we understand the problem, Represent the problem with pictures and labels, Solve, Look back and check. We will practice balancing equations.

Social Studies: We will read and discuss Martin Luther King, Jr. in our Scholastic News. We will use a map of North America to identify our countries boundaries.

Ways you can help at home: Look for ed words and magic e words as you are reading at home. Discuss the main character in the story you are reading. How would you describe this character? Think about the problem solving steps in math. Have your child identify each step as he or she solves the homework word problems. Make up and solve multiplication word problems that involve a 2, 5, or 10. Make arrays showing these word problems. Identify numbers as even or odd.  Try having your child balance equations. For example 6+8= 10+ ____.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Weekly News January 4-8, 2016

Your thoughtfulness is truly amazing. Thank you for the generous gift this holiday. I am very appreciative to work with Spring Street students and their families. I hope you had a wonderful break.

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log. Look for the new Writing Homework for the month of January. Let me know if you have any questions. Please help your child work on it a little bit each week.

Language Arts: We will begin a study of fables. The students will be reading and sharing the moral of the stories. We will write a personal narrative story about something that happened over our winter break.

Mathematics: We will continue our work on multiplication. We will focus on multiplying by 5s and 10s. We will investigate what makes numbers even and odd.

Social Studies: We will review landforms.

Ways you can help at home: Review some moments your child could write about for our next personal narrative. Practice talking through the story together. Look through the writing homework. This is suppose to take the month to complete. Help your child do each part of the writing process.

 

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Gotta Keep on Reading
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