January 21-23

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

Homework packets are due on Thursday!  Please remind your child to put it in their backpack on Wednesday evening.  Remember, no homework packet = no free choice Friday!

There is no school on Friday as it is Records Day for teachers.

Mrs. Thibodeau will be visiting our class this week and talking to us about healthy choices!  Talk to your child at home about some healthy choices they already make and maybe some goals on how to incorporate some more healthy choices into their daily lives.

THIS WEEK IN...

Language Arts:  With such a short week, we will be taking our language arts time this week to focus on our persuasive letters.  So far, Team Blowey has come up with an idea and an audience that they would like to write to.  We’ve also brainstormed some ideas for why our audience might tell us, “I don’t think so!”  This will help us streamline our reasons and make our letters more convincing.  This week, students will work on coming up with specific and convincing reasons why their audience should agree with their opinion.  Then, they will use these reasons to write a rough draft of a letter.  With a teacher and independently, Team Blowey will both revise and edit their rough drafts in order to create a fabulous final draft!

Math:  We are continuing to switch between some of our second grade classrooms to help provide our second graders with more targeted instruction around what they need for place value.  Here are some examples of what your child will be working on during our place value goal time:

1. I can read and write three digit numbers using numerals, number names, and expanded form.
2. I understand where the ones place, tens place, and hundreds place are in a number.  I also know the value of each digit.
3. I understand that a three digit number is made up of bundles of 1, 10, and 100.  I know that 100 can be thought of as 10 bundles of 10.
4. I can skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s within 1,000.
5. I can compare two three-digit numbers using the symbols <, >, and =.

In room 10, we’ll also continue to review our money and telling time skills.  During our money review, we will identify specific coins and their values.  We will also practice adding coins together up to $1.00.  During our telling time review, we will talk about telling time to the nearest hour, half hour, and quarter hour. Math facts will also continue to be a focus.  Our goal is not only to be able to solve the equations correctly, but also quickly.  We should be able to recall the sums and differences from memory in three seconds or less.

Science:  Our plant life cycle study continues.  This week, students will observe their plants twice, drawing exactly what they see and describing exactly what they see.  Already, we have some sprouts!

Read Aloud:  This week, we will be finishing up our mini-unit on mystery books.  We’ll finish reading Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day mystery as well as finishing up our case files.  We’ll use the clues we have found to solve the mystery of the three missing computers!

We'll also invite another mystery reader into our classroom tomorrow.  If you would like to sign up to be a mystery reader, please let me know!  We have plenty of spaces left from now until the end of the year!