We began learning how to add numbers up to 1,000 this week. On Monday and Tuesday we reviewed addition without regrouping, and on Wednesday and Thursday we jumped into regrouping in the tens place. Next week we'll learn about not only regrouping in the tens, but the hundreds, too, which is a little tougher for second graders to "get" right away. We'll be practicing perseverance! Our rhyme we've been doing as we work is: "If 9 or less, let it rest, if 10 or more, carry next door!"
READING
We are focusing in on the comprehension skill of making inferences while we read. This is an abstract skill that doesn't come very easy, so we're spending an extra week on it! Our mentor text this week is A Visitor for Bear, and you can click the title to see a YouTube video reading of it. We do take comprehension quizzes on our mentor texts each week, and our vocabulary words come directly from them, so feel free to watch the video at home with you child! I'll try to remember to share a video of the story each week, too.
To promote sharing our reading at home, I've created a grid on Flipgrid HERE for our class! Students can create a short video showing off a book they're reading. It could be a book from my library or the RES library, or even a book from home or your local library. ANYTHING they're reading!
Students should be sure to share the following in their videos:
1. Title, Author/Illustrator
2. Summary
3. Rating (out of 5 stars)
Then, students are free to click an emoji reaction to each other's videos. Please show this Emoji Reaction Guide to your child FIRST. :) I can't wait to hear about all the amazing reading your child will do this year! Let's fill up that Flipgrid!
WRITING
We are learning about personal narratives! Students are creating their own small moment story about a time in their life when they said, "Ouch!" This week we focused on showing, not telling. For example, instead of saying "I had a headache", instead we could say, "My head felt like it was on fire." We will begin drafting on Monday!
SCIENCE
We've begun our unit on Solids & Liquids, and have started discussing how to describe properties of solids based on look, feel, texture, and material.
NEXT WEEK:
Spelling Pattern: -ow, -oat
Sight Words: sat, told, five, inside, night
Grammar Focus: Parts of Speech Review (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives)
Comprehension Skill: Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions
Vocabulary: impressive, rigid, attentive, intolerable, whisk, venture
We had many kids fill up their first Super Improver chart this week, and two 2K Adventurers were recognized as this week's RES Fantastic Foxes! Congrats Dharini and Thatcher!