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Fitness Friday Dates: 1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/17 and 2/14 for a rain date.
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School: 1/20 and 1/21
Math: Students are diving into subtraction! All second graders will be working on knowing
subtraction facts fluently as well as developing skills to subtract numbers
into the double digits. This week we
have been thinking about how addition connects to subtraction and how our
knowledge of addition facts will help us learn our subtraction facts. During our math time we continue to develop
our skills around reading and setting clocks as well as our knowledge of
coins. Students are expected to know all
coin names and values as well as be able to solve word problems involving
dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies using $ and ¢ symbols correctly by the end of second
grader. Please work with your child on
counting coins whenever you use them in your life. Real life situations are the best way for the
kids to see the importance of this skill.
Literacy/Science: Students have begun a unit on informational
writing. They each have chosen an animal
that lives in or near North America that they will research and write a mini
report book on. Students will be asked
to write about what they already know (prior knowledge), what they still
wonder, and come up with at least two questions they have about their
animal. Students will be learning how to
use resources to write their report, will learn how to take a few notes from a
resource, and then finally how to take the notes and write their own sentences
from them. Students will be using some
of their library time to find resources and will also use some of their
technology skills to access World Book to research their animal! Students seem to be really excited about this
project and have even been doing some of their own research at home! I’m so excited to see what they come up
with!
I will be
assessing student’s reading skills for the next few weeks. The data I gather from this assessment will
give me valuable information on what reading skills are still needed for the
class as a whole, what skills each individual student needs, and what reading level
they should be working within.
Have a Great Week!
–Mrs. Raynor
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