Summer School
With us already being to mid-April, summer is right around the corner. Enrolling your child is summer school is a great way for your child to stay in the school routine, meet two of the third grade teachers (Mrs. Koberman and Mrs. Cunningham are teaching summer school) and have some fun learning experiences. If you have not signed your child up for summer school a new summer school form came home with your child earlier this week.
Ms. Hackmann's Special Gift
As a reminder, Ms,. Hackmann's last day with us the first week in May. The kiddos love having her in our classroom and she will be deeply missed when she is gone! We are continuing to collect school items for her to use to start up her classroom, or some of her favorite snacks (goldfish crackers, chocolate, etc.). If you would like to donate an item please have it to school by Friday, April 28. Please let me know if you have any questions!
We took advantage of Ms. Hackmann not being here today & the kiddos worked on a special gift for her. We are making an advice book for her first year teaching. Each student wrote a paragraph about advice that they would give her on what she should do in her classroom. We also put our opinion writing into action this afternoon and the students worked on designing "You Should Hire Ms. Hackmann" posters. They had to come up with at least 3 reasons why a school should hire her. We will be secretly finishing these up over the next week.
A Learning Filled Week!
It might be April, but there is still a LOT of learning happening in 2nd grade!!
- Math: We continued to work on estimating and measuring the lengths of items, and finding the different (subtracting two lengths) this week through different fun projects.
- On Monday, we used regular and sour gummy worms as our items that we measured! The students estimated the length and then measured each worm. Then they estimated the length of each worm stretched. Finally they found the difference of how much the worm could be stretched.
- Another fun project we have been working the students put their measurement skills into action by measuring a variety of their body parts. They then compared the lengths of different body parts by finding the difference. Afterwards, each child made a life-size cutout of him/herself and labeled the body with the lengths. We will finishing these bodies up on Monday. I cannot wait to be able to show you the final product - they are turning out so cute!! :)
- Next week in math, we will continue to work on measurement using centimeters.
- Reading: This week, we have worked on generating questions that could be answered in a nonfiction by looking at the Table of Contents. In addition to generating questions, the students read a book called The Mighty Mississippi. They worked on identifying 2-3 important facts from each chapter. We also talked about what is the most important they learned in the book and supporting their answer with a valid reason.
- Next week in reading, we will continue to work on these same learning targets with a How To book about kites.
- Writing: We have worked SO incredibly hard on our writing our rough draft of our "Which is Better" book. Your child wrote a lead paragraph, 10 reason paragraphs (5 reasons for each topic) and a conclusion opinion paragraph - that is a 12 paragraph book!!! We also talked a LOT about adding voice into each paragraph - some of the voice that your child used is so funny or unique. You should be so incredibly proud of your child's work!!
- Next week, we will be editing/revising using CUPS and ARMS.
- Word Study: This week our focus was on vowel patterns with ar, air, and are.
- Next week, we will be focusing on er, ear, eer, and ear (that makes the /ur/ sound). Next week's words are: earth, germ, clear, deer, learn, stern, cheer, clerk, heard, hear, steer and dear.
We Always Swing Jazz Concert
Second grade was very lucky to be able to attend the "We Always Swing" jazz concert at Hickman High School on Wednesday. We learned about some of the different components that make up jazz and even got to create a jazz piece!
Hat and Sports Day
On Friday, April 21, we will have a school-wide spirit day. Your child can support his/her favorite sports team by wearing a hat, shirt, etc.
Best Place to Live
Your child's best place to live opinion writing is coming in your child's Friday Folder. This is a piece of writing you would probably want to save of your child's because your child completed all the research, and took the writing through the entire writing process.
Special Visitors in Room 26!
Today we had some special visitors in room 26! Addi & Avery brought in a grasshopper that they found. Lexi had yet another caterpillar turn into a butterfly at home, and so she brought in pictures to show us.
Have a wonderful weekend! :)
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