2nd Grade News - Week 17

Today is officially the last day of the second quarter.  Where has the time gone?  Report cards will be going home in student backpacks next Friday.  I am so proud of the effort all of the students are showing.  It is amazing to see how much they can learn in such a short time period.  I am very proud of all my students!  No matter what scores your child receives on their report card, please praise them for the effort and hard work they have put in!

Academic Areas of Focus for Next Week:

Literacy:        Lucy Calkin’s Reader’s Workshop – Making Our Reading More Fluent

                                    -Understanding comparisons and literary language

                                    -Noticing when authors play with words

                                    -Finding the moral in folktales and fables

                        Lucy Calkin’s Writer’s Workshop – Opinion Writing

                                    -Making our writing stronger, longer, and more convincing

                                    -Focus: ending punctuation, appropriate upper and lower case letters,

                                                 spelling high frequency words correctly

                        Words Their Way – Differentiated phonics lessons for individual levels

Mathematics:  2D and 3D Shapes, Area, Introduction to Fractions

                        -2.OA.C.4 – Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in

                        rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation

                        to express the total as a sum of equal addends. (ex. 5x4 array could be

                        expressed as 5+5+5+5=20 or 4+4+4+4+4=20)

                        -2.G.A.1 – Recognizes and draws shapes having specified attributes, such as

                        the given number or angles or equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals,

                        pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

                        -2.G.A.3 – Partitions circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal

                        shares; describes the shares using the words halves, thirds, fourths, half of,

                        a third of, a fourth of, ect. and describes the whole as two halves, three

                        thirds, four fourths.  Recognizes that equal shares of identical wholes need

                        not have the same shape.

Health:  Disease and Illness Prevention

Upcoming Events:  

            *Last Day of 2^nd Quarter – Friday, Jan. 24^th

            *Teacher Planning/No School – Monday, Jan. 27^th

            *Kinderkonzert Field Trip – Tuesday, Jan. 28^th

            *Grout T-Shirt Day – Friday, Jan. 31^st

            *Kinderkonzert Field Trip – Tuesday, Feb. 11^th

            *President’s Day/No School – Monday, Feb. 17^th

            *PTA Movie Night – Friday, Feb. 21^st

            *February Birthday Celebration – Friday, Feb. 28^th

Mrs. Hawksford (ahawksford@pps.net)