Curriculum Highlights
Reading
Our stamina is increasing! Many students are telling me about the books they are reading at home. Please keep up on this important routine. Reading daily helps enrich your student's vocabulary and is fun!
Students will practice identifying the main topic and supporting details of a text, both written and oral.
Writing
We are working on making our writing easy to read. Each day we are focusing on lowercase letters and numerals. If your student reverses letters and numerals still there is no need to worry. This is common at the beginning of second grade.
Students will begin using the dictionary to help them with their spelling.
Social Studies
Students will continue to learn about Growth Mindset; specifically the quality of empathy. We will investigate the ripple effect of kindness.Students will continue learning about community. They will reflect on how they can be responsible and respectful members of the communities in which they belong (family, school, neighborhood, teams, and clubs, etc)
Science
Students will learn why leaves change color in the fall, how it’s related to its life cycle, and dip our toes into the topic of biodiversity.Math
Students will continue to focus on adding and subtracting to and from 20 and continue practicing skip counting.This week we will begin learning different strategies to help us mentally add and subtract.
Conferences
Please click HERE to access the conference schedule. A google hangout link will be available and posted in our Google Classroom at the time of your conference. This will be just like our virtual connection a few weeks ago. Directions on how to access classroom are HERE.
Supportive Homework Suggestions
Math: Play a card game. We use cards many times throughout the week. Ask your student to show you one of our games. Students know how to play: Fishing for Ten, Double-Digit Top-It, and Addition Top-It. Do you know of a fun card game? Your student may share it with the class. :)
Reading and Writing: Consider getting a special notebook and a neat pen or another writing tool to share with your student. Write to them and leave their journal on their pillow. Ask them to write back to you. Make it a goal to share the notebook at least once a week.
Computer: use IXL and Guided Readers
Prescribed homework will come home on Monday and is expected to be returned on Friday.
Pictures from our bread experiment.
