ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a lovely vacation!
I think I was a little overzealous when I decided to have all of the winter olympics papers due by today. Instead, I will extend the deadline for those papers to be turned in to THURSDAY! I will move the medal ceremony to Friday. Also, winter break homework packets will also be due on Thursday!
Mrs. Sylvester’s class is collecting books for a book swap for Read Across America Day! Please send in a gently used book with your child by Friday! This book will be added to the book swap. It should be a book that another second grader will be interested in. On Monday, March 3, students will have the chance to pick out a new book in place of the one that they gave. You are more than welcome to donate more books if you would like, however, students will only be getting one book at the book swap. Contact me with any questions!
This Saturday is Dancing with the Staff! I can’t believe it’s here already. I will be performing with Mrs. Russell, Ms. Cott, and Miss Walsh! Buy your tickets today!
I would love to have all of you there for support during dancing with the staff. I’m asking that any students who go to wear black and maybe sunglasses to show their support! Our theme is “under cover”. Feel free to make posters so I have something to concentrate on instead of my stage fright, ha! Tickets tend to go fast so buy them soon! $10 for adults, $5 for students.
Mrs. Thibodeau will be coming to our classroom on Thursday to talk to us about friendship! Something we definitely enjoy celebrating in the month of February.
Please remember that second grade tries to go outside for a morning recess every morning (depending on the weather). In order to help your child get the most out of their recess, please send them already dressed to play outside! They will need their snow pants, jackets, hats, boots, and mittens!
This week in...
Phonics: We are working with spr-, str-, and scr-. Our focus words for the week are screen, scream, crape, stripe, struck, strict, sprain, spring, spruce, and strap.
Vocabulary: Our new words are sincerely, impatient, furious, demand, emergency, and snoop. We’ll define these words and build connections to them. Then, we’ll search for them in the short story Izzy Pig Saves the Day! by Kevin Tormino.
Comprehension: This week we will be focusing on cause and effect again. The cause is why something happened and the effect is the event that happened. We’ll use the connecting word “because” to help us with our thoughts. We’ll practice this strategy while we read Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type.
Grammar: We will work on combining sentences. If two sentences have words that are the same, we can combine the sentences using the word “and”. For example, we can take these two sentences:
Mom picked the apples. Mom baked a pie.
We can connect these sentences with the word and so that they will read as:
Mom picked the apples and baked a pie.
Writing: This week, we will finish up our autobiography books and begin our buddy biographies! Students will be partnered and they will interview each other to gather information about their partner’s life events. Then, they will create a book about each other!
Math: We will continue our flexible groups for place value. Please see previous blog posts for specifics on what your child is working towards to meet our second grade place value standard.
Science: We will replant some of the seeds that we were able to harvest from our brassica plants and see if we can start the plant life cycle all over again!
We’ll also introduce our weather topic! This week, we’ll start by reading some weather books and collecting different weather words that we hear.
Read Aloud: We are still on an adventure with the fabulous BFG!
Scholastic News: We will read about Harriet Tubman and how she helped so many slaves escape to freedom! We’ll also learn a little bit about the Underground Railroad.
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