Weekly Gazette (March 22-March 26)

What's My Child Learning This Week?

Math- This week, we finish learning about congruency (same size and shape) and begin learning three-digit subtraction and addition. We will also integrate these skills with problem solving.

Reading-This is our last week focusing on Splish Splash. We focus on comparing and contrasting the various animals presented in the text. We also review the questioning strategy.

Writing-We will be doing shared writing/interactive writing about the traits of good readers. We finish lower case cursive letters this week.

Science-This week, we begin preparing for the science fair! 2B will present a class project. Students may do an individual project if they wish. Information will be sent home later in the week.

Word Wall-This week's word wall words are irregular past tense: shook, hurt, made, taught, flew.

Tests/Quizzes

*Word wall quiz Thursday, March 25th.

*Double-digit subtraction timed test Wednesday, March 24th.

*Symmetry quiz Wednesday, March 24th. Study guide will go home today.

*Reading quiz on Splish Splash this Thursday. Students need to be able to compare/contrast the animals presented in the text. Also, students will have to write five to six questions based on the story.

Important Reminders

*Parent-teacher conferences this week! Please check your schedule time and return as soon as possible.

*Color's Day this Friday for 5 lps.

*Early dismissal is this Friday, March 26th at 11:15 a.m.

*VOG Charla about Positive Education and Social Empowerment (friendship) is this Thursday, March 25th at 11:30 a.m. See you there!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND SEMANA SANTA!!!!!!

Word Wall

There are no new word wall words this week! Students do not have to do word wall activities for this week!

Weekly Gazette (March 15th-March 19th)

What's My Child Learning This Week?

Reading-This week in reading, we focus/review asking questions while reading. There are three main types of questions: Right There questions have the answer directly stated in the book. Author & You questions don't have answers directly stated in the text, but the author gives picture and/or context clues to help the reader figure it out. Third, Think & Search questions are the hardest. Students have to be able to infer the answer to the question based on experience/prior knowledge. While we will use various texts to explore this strategy, we also continue reading the text Splish Splash.

Math-This is our last week studying geometry. We focus on symmetry and congruency. We explore parallel and perpendicular lines.

Science-This is our last week studying animals. Students are sharing thier animal research projects!

Writing-We finish lowercase cursive letters this week! Students are finally publishing a piece for display. Yeah!!!

Important Reminders

*Father's Day celebrations are this Thursday, March 18th. All second grade sections will celebrate from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m.

*Empty Bowls is this Thursday beginning at 5:00 p.m.

*Fourth (4th) quarter begins tomorrow, March 16th.

NO TESTS OR QUIZZES THIS WEEK!

HAVE A HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!!!!

Weekly Gazette (March 8-March 12)

What's My Child Learning this Week?

Reading/Science-We are integrating the two subjects. Students begin reading a story called Splash! Splash! We focus on learning about different kinds of animals. We focus on the strategy generating questions and the skill compare and contrast.

Math-We continue our unit on geometry. We discuss symmetry and characteristics of solids.

Writing-We continue with cursive. We are almost done with the lower case letters! Also, we continue learning how to revise our writing for good ideas and details with one main idea.

Word Wall-The words for this week focus on synonyms and antonyms: large, huge, noisy, quiet, empty, full, laugh, giggle.


Tests/Quizzes

*Word Wall quiz Friday, March 12th.

*Geometry quiz (names of solids and their characteristics) Thursday, March 11th.


HAVE A GREAT WEEK! :)

Weekly Gazette (Week of Mar.1-Mar.5)

What's My Child Learning This Week?

Reading-We continue reading Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert's Tale. This week we focus on vocabulary development through word sorts. We revisit author's purpose; a more in-depth look at why author's write and what they are trying to tell us.

Math-We begin a two week unit on geometry! Student will learn shapes, solids, and their characteristics. They will also observe geometry in real-life situations.

Science-We begin a unit on animals/habitats! Students will learn about different animals and the biomes in which they live.

Writing- We continue with the writing process! Students are learning how to revise, looking to see how well a writer uses ideas and details in his or her writing!

Word Wall-This week, we focus on plural nouns: schools, pencils, berries, foxes, fish. Some of these words follow irregular patterns!


Tests/Quizzes

*March 5th is Word Wall quiz.

*Writing quiz on capitalization/punctuation Thursday, March 4th.

*Timed subtraction quiz Thursday, March 4th.

*Cursive writing assessment Wednesdy, March 3rd.


Reminders

*Family Day is this Saturday, March 6, 2010