What's Happening in Mrs. AH's Class
2nd Grade STEAM Page
Welcome to Second Grade
Learning for the future
Everyone, Every Way , Every Day!
Week of May 13, 2013
Literacy story: Jingle Dancer
Reading key: character, setting, plot
Amazing words for the week: ceremony, culture, festival
****Book Talk = Better Comprehension
- main idea/details
- summarize
- character
- setting
- sequence
- plot & theme
- compare/contrast
- problem/solution
We will practice all of these reading skills in our small guided reading groups and in literacy workshops. You can practice at home by having your child retell the stories he/she reads. Use the questions in your child's READING LOG part of the BEE BINDER to help improve these skills too.
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**Writing School Improvement Goal- ALL students will improve written communication across the curriculum.
Writing: 6 Traits of Writing
(Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, Conventions)
- We have started learning about the first of the 6 traits:IDEAS. We have worked on creating good and interesting topics.We have learned how to add important details to our writing and we are practicing writing 5 sentence paragraphs with great details.
- We have finished the second writing trait..organization. We have learned about putting things in order(sequence). We will continue working on writing BOLD beginnings, MARVELOUS middles, and EXCELLENT endings!
- We are beginning the trait of Word Choice! We are learning how to add adverbs, adjectives, specific nouns and verbs to our writing to make it "sparkle"! AND.....we are learning to stay away from "tired" words!
- All of second grade is beginning to do "practice" free writes with an assigned writing prompt so that the children will become more comfortable with this "test-like" writing. We are using the writing rubric to score exemplar papers as well as our own. This helps the students know what is expected from a second grade paper.
- We have finished our writing project about an imaginary friend and an extraordinary adventure. It involves good ideas , organization , and word choice!
- We have completed learning the rules of good sentence fluency! We have learned that sentences have a naming and telling part, and longer sentences are better.We can write "SUPER SENTENCES!"
- We are learning about the final writing trait: voice!
Good websites:
readingrockets.org
PBS
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Spelling: misplace, mislead, midway, misprint, midweek, misbehave, midyear, mistake, midnight, midday
**Carson City, Nevada
We have 10 spelling words(from our phonics lessons) each week on our Friday spelling test. Please take a few minutes each night to review and practice these words however you like. They will be written in your child's planner on Mondays. For continuous review, we will begin having 10 wall words on our test. We will also have a dictation sentence each week that the children have to write correctly using capitals, punctuation, and spelling.
Our bonus word is usually a city and a state. This teaches map skills, as well as capitals and punctuation.
Great website to study spelling words!
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Grammar:
- subjects & predicates
- commands & exclamations
- singular & plural nouns
- verbs, verb tenses
- adjectives, adverbs
- synonyms & antonyms
- pronouns
- quotation marks
- homophones & multiple meaning words
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**Math School Improvement Goal- ALL students will improve their reasoning and proof skills.
Math: MATH BAGS have started going to homes daily!!!! Please read the directions and enjoy playing the game with your child. Don't forget to complete the game feedback sheet and return the MATH BAG the next day. We want each child to be able to bring home a bag once a week. THANKS!!!
DAILY REVIEWING:
- fast facts daily at school
- review of numbers, patterns, and routines
- addition and subtraction strategies
- money & time
- geometric shapes
continuing:
- measurement
- double digit addition & subtraction with and without regrouping
- multiplication & division
- fractions
Please initial all math homework that comes home so I know you have seen it.
Good math sites:
mathplayground.com
coolmath.com
IXL.com
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Unit:
- We are about to begin designing our windmills!!! Thanks for sending in juice and milk cartons for this project!!!
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Favorite Web Sites:
spellingcity.com
eduplace.com
pbskids.com
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REMINDERS:
SOME IMPORTANT REMINDERS FOR OUR CLASS:
- Please check "BEE BINDERS" and planners daily! This is a very important communication tool for us! Sign the planner each night. You are welcome to write notes in the planner too. I check it every day. :)
- Send a snack daily!
- Read with your child each night AND please sign the reading log on the back of the BEE BINDER.
- Encourage respect and responsibility!
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