March Word Study

*For the rest of the our Word Study curriculum this year, we will be focusing on 

double vowel syllable words.* 

Unit 11
The students will be learning about the long e syllable. Students have been exposed to the different sounds of long e. Now, they will be given the opportunity to spell words that have the long e sound. 

Trick words:  school, too, many 




Unit 12
In this unit, students will practice the spelling of another double vowel syllable word. 

Trick words: mother, father, brother

At home, students can review their vowel teams each night before or after completing their homework to help strengthen their spelling skills. 

February Math Workshop

February Math Workshop


                          

FEBRUARY MATH WORKSHOP

GRADE 2

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION WITHIN 1,000 WITH WORD PROBLEMS TO 100.

In this unit, the children build upon all their previous work with place value. They extend their work with addition and subtraction solving algorithms with numbers up to 1,000. The children will continue to use drawings and models to help them to understand the steps needed to solve the problems.They will be using a variety of strategies ( the arrow way, number bonds, totals below, vertical way etc.)They will also continue to work with various types of word problems with numbers up to 100.

Strategies from  left to right:   Tape Diagram, Number Bonds and Arrow Way

                                                      Totals Below Strategy

New Key Vocabulary For This Unit

 - Compensation: a simplifying strategy where the children add or subtract the same amount to or from both numbers to create an equal but easier problem. e.g. 610 - 290 = 620-300 = 320

- New Groups Below: show newly composed units on the line below the appropriate place in the addition problem.

   - Algorithm: a step by step procedure used to solve a problem.

How You Can Help At Home
     -practice counting backward and forward by 10's and 100's.

     -practice finding 10 more or 10 less, and/or 100 more or 100 less than any  2-digit or 3-digit                 number.

February Field Trips

National Museum of the American Indian

Cost: Free!

Time: We will leave the school at 9:30 and return by 1:30.

Lunch: We will be eating lunch in the classroom when we return to school.  We will provide cheese sandwiches from the cafeteria for students.  If your child does not like cheese sandwiches please send them with a packaged lunch that is easy to carry. 

The second grade is finishing their unit on Native Americans.  We have read many books in read aloud and done a project! To help further our study we will be visiting the National Museum of the American Indian. We will be participating in Native American story telling and then be able to tour around the museum to see other artifacts and learn more information.

February Celebrations!

Non-Fiction Celebration

Come join the second grade in celebrating our non-fiction unit! Students researched different animals to become experts.  Then, they wrote a non-fiction narrative and created realistic dioramas to show their animal in its habitat.  All second graders and parents will visit each classroom to see all the amazing work throughout the entire grade!

When: Friday, February 12^th at 1:40pm

Where: Start in your child’s classroom then visit the other second grade rooms

         

Class 2-205 working hard creating their non fiction dioramas on their animal.

February Read Aloud

In the beginning of the month in read aloud the students will be learning about Presidents Day. They will learn why we celebrate Presidents Day and why it is an important holiday. We will read books about different presidents, such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. 

In the middle of the month we will be starting our author study on Roald Dahl. We will start by reading the book Fantastic Mr. Fox where the students will track the main characters journey and understand the lesson at the end of the book. Then we will read the book The Witches. The students will watch the movie Matilda that was based off of Roald Dahl's book Matilda. At the end of this author study, during the month of March we will end by reading the book Boy, which is an autobiography written by Roald Dahl.

This autobiography describes Roald Dahl's life from birth until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing as a career. After this book, the students will understand why Roald Dahl wrote his books. They will understand what childhood experiences led him to write each book.