We have been rocking out addition with regrouping in second grade, and right now we're learning how to apply the skill to word problems. We will have our test on Wednesday of next week. Today I'll be sending home a review packet for students to help them prepare.
READING
We are focusing in on the comprehension skill of sequencing events in a story. Our mentor text this week is Crankenstein, 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 your child! Challenge them to find the vocabulary words in the text, and ask them to summarize the book to you, or add a summary to our Flipgrid below!
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!" We are working on drafting our story.
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. We're now learning how to group solids according to their properties.
NEXT WEEK:
Spelling Pattern: -ui, -ue
Sight Words: say, food, isn't, found, top
Grammar Focus: Shades of Meaning (example: mad->crabby->cranky->grumpy); Quotation Marks
Comprehension Skill: Sequencing Events; Review Making Connections
Vocabulary: despise, ill, exhausted, devastated, irritated, companion
Global Spotlight: Italy! (students are free to explore this website at home to learn more about our current country of study)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
> SOCKTOBER starts next week! Students may bring in new socks to be donated to Peoria Rescue Ministries.
> September Homework Bingo (which was optional) will be due next week. Students who completed all tasks will get a fun activity next week!
> Please remind your child to try to do 3+ sessions of XtraMath at home. If you need information on how to connect to our class's account at home, please email/Dojo me.