January 7th-January 11th

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS

It's definitely winter outside!  Make sure you send your child to school with a coat, snow pants, hat, mittens, and boots!  They will need them to go outside for recess and earned time!

Regular homework packets will begin again tomorrow!  Students will fill in their goals and school and practice them at home during the week.  Whenever your child practices a goal, please have them circle the letter of the day that they practiced.  This will show me how and when they are practicing their goals at home.  Also, remember that there is a place for parent feedback!  Please use it!  Let me know any of your comments or questions!

Next Monday, January 14th is early release!  The following Monday is Martin Luther King Day and there will be no school.  On Friday, January 25th, there will also be no school for students as it is records day.  

CALLING ALL MYSTERY READERS!  We still have plenty of weeks without mystery readers.  If you or someone you know would like to come in and read to our classroom (or if you would like to read to us again!) please let me know!  Team Blowey loves Mystery Readers!  We invite mystery readers into our classroom on Wednesdays from 11:50 to 12:10.

What can my child practice on IXL?

Graphing:  R. 2, 3, 6, 7

Facts:  E. 1-12, L. 1-5

Time: Q. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10

Money:  P. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15

Odd and Even:  A. 6, 7, 8

Geometry:  T. 1, 2, 3

Fractions:  U. 1-5, 7, 8

 

NEW! PLACE VALUE SKILLS!

 

I know what number is in the hundreds, tens, and ones place:  

M.1, M.2, M.3, M.4, M.9.

 

I know how many bundles of 1, 10, and 100 are in a three digit number:

A.5, M.12

I know three digit numbers in numbers and in words:

M.5, M.10

I can skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

A.1, A.2, A.3, A.12

I can write three digit numbers in numbers, words, and expanded form:
C.3, C.4, M.13

 

I can compare numbers using < > or =.

B.3, B.4, B.5, B.6, B.7

This week in...

Phonics:  We are practicing the following consonant digraphs:  th, sh, ch, and wh.  Here are our new phonics words for the week:  chest, chill, chase, shape, sheep, thing, think, white, while, and wheat.  We sorted, sounded out, and spelled all of these words together and will continue to work with them throughout the week.

Vocabulary:  Our news words are:  ancient, hopeful, unable, confirm, and valid.  We will figure out what these words mean and build connections to them so that we are better able to remember them.  Then, we will search for them in two short stories called A Very Old Fish and Boy Finds Fossils!

Comprehension:  We will continue our work with summarizing.  When we summarize, we are making a statement of only the most important ideas in a section.  We'll practice this skill while we read Meet the Super Croc.

Writing:  I have finally set up a system so that students may write letters to each other on a regular basis!  Yay!  We will be reviewing the parts of a friendly letter and talking about how our intra and interclassroom mailing system will work.

Grammar:  We will be working with past-tense verbs.  Most of the time, we will add -ed to a verb to make it a past-tense verb.  We will also be reminding each other that a sentence should start with a capital letter and a sentence should end with a period. 

Math:  We have unpacked our next HUGE and important unit!  Place Value!  Today we unpacked the checklist for place value together.  Here are the parts that your child will need to know in order to pass the place value standards:

1.  I can read and write three digit numbers.

2.  I can tell you what number is in the hundreds, tens, and ones place in a three digit number.

3.  I can tell you how many bundles of 1, 10, and 100 are in a three digit number (A bundle of 100 is made up of 10 bundles of 10, and 100 bundles of 1)

4.  I can write a three digit number in expanded form.

5.  I can use < > and = correctly to compare numbers.

6.  I can skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s within 1,000.

7.  I can tell you what number is the greatest and what number is the least.

This week, we will practice several menu choices for how to practice and review our individual checklists so that we know what exact parts we still need to work on in order to understand our second grade place value standards.

Social Science:  The plans are still up in the air, but we're hoping to teach our S.O.P. to a kindergarten classroom by the end of the week!

We are also continuing to learn and breathe by our new code that says that we will work together!  It's crucial for us to do this so that we can make our classroom vision come true!

Read Aloud:  We are still reading The Borrowers.

Words to Think about:  Whatever you do... be all about it!

I hope you have a fantastic week!