weekly update

March Is Reading Month

Starting in March we are looking for some parents to be Mystery Readers in our classroom. March is Reading Month after all and it would be awesome to have some of our grown ups share their love of reading with our class. Just make sure you have a background check filled out before you sign up! 

Mystery Reader Sign Up

Background Check Link

Writing:

We finished our last persuasive review this week! We ended with a book review which is the perfect perfect to start our March is Reading Month. We will work on persuasive essays about candidates for "Second Grade City" City Council and Mayor. We will also be starting the March is Reading Month Book Bracket, reading and choosing books down to the Sweet Sixteen, Final Four, and finally a Picture Book Champion.  

Math:

The kids have been working hard on measuring and building concrete and conceptual understandings around inches, feet, and yards! See if they can measure things around your house correctly. To help with that we have been practicing skip counting and doubling, which helps the students understand the relationships between the units of measurement.

Phonics:

Gus was gone for a little while, but came back and DEMOLISHED our room! It was a misunderstanding. He felt awful. We realized it was because he was learning how to demolish words, and got a little carried away.  We are now working on demolishing harder words, by breaking them up into smaller chunks, but also remembering to keep digraphs and vowel teams together.

Reading:

The kids visited the Starbooks Cafe and did some Book Tasting!  We are going to start book clubs next week based on the books the kids were interested in reading from their book tasting!

Homework:

The math paper is due by March 1.

Extra Information:

February 26 and 28- Parent Teacher Conferences (book fair will also be open)

February 26- Book Fair Preview

February 27- Book Fair Purchase