Weekly Update

We are excited to announce our One School One Book is Fenway and Hattie! Here is the calendar to read along with everyone at school. It went home in your child's mail too. On the calendar posted here there is a QR code that will take you to the page where you can hear staff read chapters aloud or you can click here: Fenway and Hattie Read Aloud. 

Also, if you haven't signed up to be a Mystery Reader in our class here is the link! Mystery Reader

One more March thing. . . our Specials calendar. It also went home in your child's mail on Friday : )

Writing:

The kids each wrote a persuasive speech about someone who would make a good mayor or commissioner for second grade.  They had to write convincing reasons and support them with examples. They did an amazing job! I'm so proud of how well they not only wrote these, but also presented their cases as they read them in front of their peers.

Math:

We have been doing so much two-digit addition and subtraction! The second graders have learned that when adding you can add the tens and one separtely and then put them back together.  For example: 68 + 25 breaks down to 60+20= 80 and 8+5=13. So then you can add those back together to get 80+13=93. It works well for subtraction too: 93-68 breaks down to 93-60=33 and 33-8=25

We finished the Unit 4 test on Friday. I will check it and give it back to the second graders to see if they want one more try at ones they got wrong. Then I will score them and send them home!

Reading:
We have been working hard on being good book club members. During independent reading time the second graders have been working on becoming experts on the main character in their books by figuring out their likes and dislikes and how they react to problems. During book club time they have been working on sitting in a circle, staying on-task, and taking turns talking and listening. These are some big goals to work on at the same time so we will continue this work next week with new series and new book clubs.

Social Studies:

To wrap up our unit on civics and government the second graders elected a mayor and 5 city commissioners - two from each class and one at-large. For the next two weeks we will put these elected representatives to work as we discuss how citizens affect their community. We will spend next week talking about what makes a good citizen and how people in a community work together to solve problems. After that we will discuss important second grade issues like pets, bike helmets and candy. 

Phonics:

We finished up our Word Builders unit and our work as construction and demolition experts for the BLC. They asked us to make some ads for their company, so we wrote some on whiteboards! As a thank you they reached out to our Parents' Club and got us books! We have the best Parents Club for playing along with our Phonics fun!! Next week we will take some time to work on grammar before we start our last big phonics unit of the year!

Homework:

The page about books is due by March 8.  We are going to be writing about books in class, so have your child think of some books they have liked. Sometimes it helps to talk to friends and family about books to remember ones you really loved. Don't stress though, they don't need to fill all 12 slots!! We will add to it at school as well : )