January 25th

NWEA- students finished their NWEA testing.  Look for reports to come home this week.  If you have any questions please reach out.  

Conferences- If you would like to sign up for a conference, HERE is the link.  If now isn't a good time or you don't have any questions that is ok.  You are welcome to request a conference at any time throughout the school year.  I will always make time to discuss your student with you.  

The week in review-

Math- We have continued working on telling time.  Students are doing very well identifying the placement of the hands on an analog clock; using the phrases "hour zone" and "minute mark" tend to help them if they are confusing the hands.  We are working on telling time to the minute.   

Our year long focus in math is understanding place value.  2nd graders are working really hard to master these concepts in regards to place value: 

• identify place and value of digits
• count by 1's, 5's, and 10's from any given number
• read, write, and represent numbers to 1,000
• compare numbers 

IXL, sections A, B, C, E, F, G, H, L, M, and N will support students in mastering these skills.  Practicing 5 minutes a day would be great. 

Reading- Students are working on Folk Tale and Fable reader's theater.  We have focused two components of reading when working with our scripts: accuracy and fluency.  

Writing- We have been examining the difference between simple and compound sentences.  We also looked at our writing to see how we could implement both to create a varied structure that is engages the reader.

Science- We discovered why there is sand at the beach by following rocks as they travel down a river.