2nd Grade News - Week 12

Wow! It is getting really cold outside.  Please make sure your child brings a coat daily. 

We are outside for two recesses rain or shine. 

Our prize box is getting a little low.  If you would like to donate prizes for our prize box it would be very much appreciated.  Prizes should not be over a dollar.  Examples include Matchbox cars, bubbles, Play-Doh, Dollar Store toys, kid’s meal prizes, ect. Students earn prizes for getting 15 row points, 30 Dojo points in a week, or for their birthday.

Almost everyone has signed up for conferences.  If you are unable to make it in to sign up, please email me a few times that work for you on Monday or Tuesday, Nov. 25^th or 26^th. 

I wanted to give a big shout out to Sue Ledgerwood for coming in every Thursday after school to clean and sanitize our classroom!  She is helping our kids stay healthy and in school.  Thank you!  We appreciate you!

Academic Areas of Focus for Next Week:

Literacy:        Lucy Calkin’s Reader’s Workshop – Reading Nonfiction

                                    -Rereading to learn more and more

                                    -Using keywords and lingo to discuss our books

                                    -Reading multiple books on the same topic to grow knowledge

                        Lucy Calkin’s Writer’s Workshop – Writing Nonfiction Text

                                    -Writing for an audience

                                    -Revising and editing our work

                                    -Language conventions

                        Words Their Way – Differentiated phonics lessons for individual levels

Mathematics:  Unit 3 – Place Value

            Priority Standards: 2.NBT.A.1: Understand that the three digits of a three-digit

         number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g.,

         706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the   

        following as special cases:

2.NBT.A.1.a: 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten

tens — called a "hundred."

2.NBT.A.1.b: The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).

       2.NBT.A.4: Compare two three-digit numbers based on

       meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and

          < symbols to record the results of comparisons.

       2.NBT.B.8: Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-

       900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-

          900.

Science:  Properties and phases of matter

                        -How new materials are invented!

Upcoming Events:    

            *Nov. Birthday Celebration/T-Shirt Day – Friday, Nov. 22^nd

            *Fall Conferences – Monday, Nov. 25^th – Tuesday, Nov. 26^th

            *No School/Conferences & Fall Break – Monday, Nov. 25^th – Friday, Nov. 29^th

            *Cookie Dough Pick-up – Thursday, Dec. 5^th 2:00 – 2:45 pm

            *Popcorn Friday – Friday, Dec. 6^th

            *Last Day for Fall SUN – Thursday, Dec. 12^th

            *Reunification Drill – Friday, Dec. 13^th, 1:15pm (More info coming)

            *Winter Celebration/T-Shirt Day – Friday, Dec. 20^th

Have a Great Weekend!

Mrs. Hawksford (ahawksford@pps.net)