Week of 2/19/19

Important Dates 

1. Monday, February 18th: No School, President's Day
2. Wednesday, Feb. 27th: Little House in the Big Woods Coffee Talk (all reading and math groups are cancelled this day to make time for the coffee talk)
3. Thursday, Feb. 28th: February Book Orders due (New flyers went home on Friday.)
4. Friday, March 1st: Bed in Summer Poetry Recitation due

 

A Look in the Classroom 

1. ELA: We will be introducing another part of speech next week when we begin our study of prepositions. We will learn about a new type of writing when expository writing is introduced. We will be reading our final tall tale, John Henry, as we continue to connect ELA to westward expansion. 
2. History: We will talk about the California gold rush and the famous Oregon Trail. We will also explore who the riders of the Pony Express were and learn how the technology of the telegraph replaced them.
3. Science: Scholars will begin to learn about the water cycle. Leaning on the discussions we had about states of matter last week, we will discuss what the water cycle is using key terms such as evaporation and condensation.

4. Math Objectives:
   1. Count and multiply by 5’s
   2. Solve word problems by multiplying by 5
   3. Divide by 5 and solve division word problems

Assessments 

1. Friday: Spelling Test

Please reach out with any questions you may have. Wishing you a safe and relaxing long weekend with you scholars!

Week of 2/11

Important Dates

1.     Thursday, Feb. 14th: Great Hearts Day

2.     Wednesday, Feb. 27th: Little House in the Big Woods Coffee Talk (all reading and math groups are cancelled this day to make time for the coffee talk)

3. Friday, March 8th: Field fay

Announcements

A Look in the Classroom

 

1.     ELA: We will continue working on personal narratives in Writing class; Grammar will consist of more verb tense review. Bed in Summer is our new poem, recitation will be on March 1st. For Tall Tales, we will further our discussion about Johnny Appleseed.

2.     History: With our War of 1812 unit behind us we will begin to learn about Westward Expansion! We will begin learning about settling the west with lessons about Daniel Boone and The Oregon Trail.

3.     Science: Students will review states of matter in preparation for our water cycle unit.

4.     Math Objectives:

1.     4 x ___ and ___x 4

2.     Build the multiplication table for 4

3.     Use related facts for find unknown facts

4.     Solve word problems involving multiplication 

5.     Relate division by 4 to multiplication by 4

T-shirt Order Information from earlier today:
Each class is assigned a color and an ancient Greek city team name. We have been assigned the color Navy Blue and team Athens. Students will need to wear their class color during field day. I am organizing personalized t-shirts for our class. The cost is $9.62 if we meet the minimum order of 20 t-shirts. If you are interested, please submit and pay for your order here by Monday February 18^th. We must have an order of 20 t-shirts or we will have to cancel the class order and your money will be refunded to you by the t-shirt company. I should receive the t-shirts by March 5^th or 6^th and will distribute in class. We already have 9 ordered so far! Thank you!

Please Note: Ordering these t-shirts are completely optional. If you do not order a t-shirt, please send your child in a plain orange t-shirt on Field Day. 

Order your T-shirt: https://www.customink.com/g/drx0-00br-6ddv

Sign up to help with field day: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084CADAE23A1FE3-archway

Sign up for snacks: http://signup.com/go/USBxXJm    

Please do let me know if there is anything I can help with.

Week of 2/4/19

Important Dates

1. Friday, Feb. 8th: Half Day
2. Saturday, Feb. 9th: Father-Daughter Dance
3. Thursday, Feb. 14th: Great Hearts Day- At Archway Lincoln, we will not celebrate Valentine’s Day as it is traditionally celebrated in schools, but will instead celebrate Great Hearts Day on Thursday, February 14th . Each class will have a short celebration, the focus of which will be on the virtue of Friendship and kind-heartedness, not gifts and candy. Please remember that students are not to bring in any Valentine’s cards or treats for their classmates. In each classroom, students will have opportunities to show appreciation for their friends during the party. If any student brings in Valentines or candy, we will need to put them in the backpack to be returned home. Our liaisons will be contacting you with more information in the coming days. 

A Look in the Classroom

1.     ELA: In Grammar class, we are continue verb tenses, including irregular past tense. Writing instruction will include a practice of actually writing a narrative. In Tall Tales we will learn all about Johnny Appleseed.

2.     History: Our War of 1812 unit is coming to a close, we will do a close review with the study guide in class and take our assessment on Thursday.

3.     Science: We'll be doing an overview of Seasons and end the unit with a brief quiz on Friday.

4.     Math: Our mental math unit is coming to an end; we are so proud of our scholars' hard work and perseverance! Here's a great resource for helping your student skip count by 4s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSn2O4mTYD4

1.     Objectives:

1.     Subtract a number close to a hundred from a 3 digit number

2.     Count by 4s to multiply by 4

Assessments

1.     Thursday Feb. 7th: History Test, War of 1812 (study guide going home on Tuesday)

2.     Friday Feb 8th: Spelling Test and Seasons Quiz (study guide going home Thursday)

Please do reach out is there is anything I can help with.

Week of 1/28/19

Important Dates

1. Book Orders due Thursday 1/31 by 5pm. Go to clubs.scholastic.com. Our class code is R7VTX.
2. Friday, February 8th: Half Day
3. Monday, February 18th: No School; President's Day

A Look in the Classroom

1. ELA: In Grammar students will do a review of collective nouns and begin discussing verb tenses. In Writing class we will explore narrative paragraphs and read Ruby's First Day of School together. We will continue discussing Pecos Bill for our Tall Tales unit. In Spalding we will have a 15 word spelling list as we continue our detailed cursive instruction; Students should continue doing their Spalding homework in manuscript for now.
2. Science: We will continue our discussion on seasons by reviewing day and night. Quizzing your kiddo on the difference between rotate (to spin around an axis) and revolve (to move in an orbit) may make for a fun dinnertime conversation! Students will explore the different changes that happen during different seasons.
3. History: Students will continue exploring The War of 1812, we are looking forward to a lively discussion of James and Dolley Madison and their significant impact on our country. Also, students will be able to identify what motivated the Merchants and the War Hawks.
4. Math Objectives:
1. Review Mental Math 
2. Begin mental math strategies for subtraction (Parent help sheet going home) 
3. Review: Subtract a number close to 100
4. Review: Subtract 2-digit numbers-ones, tens, or hundreds

Assessments

1. Friday: Spelling Test

Week of 1/21/19

Announcements

 

1. Wednesday, January 23rd is our school wide writing day. As a school wide initiative to practice the beauty and art of writing, we will host a Lincoln Writes Day. This is an opportunity enjoy writing as a whole class. It is not an instructional time, but rather a time for teachers and students to pause and enjoy the process of writing. 
2. Spalding Class: There will be no spelling word this week as we explore the beauty that is cursive. Please note: Moving forward your child will be assessed on 14-16 words a week as we transition to cursive.

 

Important Dates

 

1.     Monday, January 28th: No School; MLK Day

2.     Friday, February 8th: Half Day

3.     Monday, February 18th: No School; President's Day

A Look in the Classroom

 

1.     ELA: Our Tall Tales unit continues; we will explore the tale of Pecos Bill, continuing to distinguish between fact and reality. In Grammar we will take a close look at collective nouns. 

2.     History: We will wrap up our Making of the Constitution unit by reviewing what we have learned and taking the assessment on Thursday. On Friday, we will introduce our War of 1812 by discussing conflicts between Great Britain and America.

3.     Science: We will be starting our Seasons unit! Students will understand the title of the Earth and discuss why we have days and nights.

4.     Math: In math class we will be doing a close review of mental math strategies. We will also be doing one-on-one oral assessments with each student to gauge their knowledge of mental math addition strategies. *Please note* The unit that teaches multiple mental math strategies for 2-3 digit addition AND subtraction equations is for learning exposure. Please know this content is not expected to be mastered in grade 2 however, it is in preparation for third grade and beyond. 

Assessments

 

1.     Thursday, January 24th: History; Constitution Test (Study Guide goes home Tuesday, January 22nd.)

Wishing you a restful long weekend with your scholars. Please do let me know if there is anything I can help with.

 

Week of 1/14/18

Important Dates

 

1.     Wednesday January 16th: Simple Machines Museum Walk

2.     Monday, January 21st: No School; Civil Rights Day

3.     Friday, February 8th: Half Day

 

 

Announcements

 

1.     Please send your scholar's copy of Little House in the Big Woods to school with your students on Monday, we will begin reading next week!

2.     I sent home a mental math resource in your scholar's orange folder this weekend, I hope this is helpful in guiding your students through their homework.

3.     Our next poetry selection is the Preamble to the constitution. We will recite this on Febuary 1st; student copies will go home Monday.

Simple Machines Museum Walk Invitation

 

The 2^nd Grade Team would like to invite you to our Simple Machines Museum Walk on Wednesday, January 16^th to showcase the wonderful simple machines projects our 2^nd grade scholars made.

We will have the projects on display in the MPR and parents are invited to walk through our “museum” and admire everyone's work. In order to allow everyone the time to view the projects in an uncrowded environment we are staggering visitation times. Please find your child's group time below and plan to visit during that 30 minute time slot as this is when your child will be in the MPR. Scholars will present during the 15 minute time slot listed for their class. This is when they will stand by their project ready to explain their work. With the remaining 15 minutes, they will have an opportunity to explore the work of other students.

Group 1: 2A/ 2B Presentation and Viewing Time: 10:45-11:15Ms. Duran’s Class (2A) presents from 10:45-11:00Ms. Hadley's Class (2B) presents from 11:00-11:15
Group 2: 2C/2D Presentation and Viewing Time: 11:30-12:00Ms. Hervas’ Class (2C) presents from 11:30-11:45 Ms. Morga’s Class (2D) presents from 11:45-12:00
Logistics for the event
We hope you can make it to see all the interesting projects of these amazing second graders!

 

·         Entrance: All parents must enter and exit the event through the west facing MPR door located near the drive up line. You do not need to sign in at the front office.

 

·         Early Checkout: If you plan to check your child out early, please let your child's teacher know at the event. She will have our TA escort your child to the classroom to get their backpacks and walk them back down to the MPR to you. You must have your blue placard in order to check out your child early from the MPR. Your child's teacher will check out your child to you. If you have a sibling to check out early from a different grade, you will need to report to the front office. As a reminder, checkouts at the front office must be completed by 12:00 noon.

 

·         Help Needed: In addition, we could use a few parent volunteers to help with the event. Please see the sign up. http://signup.com/go/EadAbac

 

Students will take their projects home at the end of the day, or, if they are being checked out early, they will take their projects home when they leave.

 

 

A Look in the Classroom

 

1.     ELA: We will begin learning about article adjectives and add that to our sentence parsing. We will exploring different writing styles such as narration and expository. We will read another version of Paul Bunyan and comparing it to the version of the story we read this week. 

2.     History: Students will understand that many patriotic Americans were afraid of the Constitution and be able to identify James Madison as a key player in getting the constitution ratified. We will explored the Bill of Rights and understand why it is integral to our union.

3.     Science: We will have students present their simple machines project. We will also finish discussing healthy eating and exercising.

4.     Math Objectives:

1.     Objective 1 : Review strategies for adding two 2-digit numbers

 How do you add 2 digit numbers together mentally?

show 43 + 35

Show how to put 10’s together and then count on the ones

 43 +30= 75 +5= 78

 

2. Objective 2: Add a number close to 100 to a 2-digit number 

There are several strategies for adding when your number is close to 100 (97, 98, 99)

 Strategies:

1. Make 100 and count on

98 + 6 = 100 +4
2. add 100 and then subtract one (if number is 99) two (98) or three (97) from your total

99 + 42 = 100 + 42 -1

3. Objective 3: Add a number close to 100 to a 3-digit number 

 Make 100 and count on (or add 100 and subtract back) when adding to a 3 digit number.

 4. Objective 4: Review Strategies for subtracting ones or tens from a 2-digit number

12-7 (when not enough ones, subtract from the ten and then add to the ones)  

10-7= 3 +2= 5

Assessments

 

1.     Friday: Spelling Test

Please do reach out if there is anything I can help with.

Week of 12/17/18 and Conference Sign Up

First, a huge thank you to all who volunteered and donated to make the Greek Celebration a success. Our scholars really enjoyed the day.

Please sign up for a spot for conferences. They will take place in 2A all day on Friday 1/4 and after school on Monday 1/7 and Wednesday 1/9. Conferences are mandatory. 

http://signup.com/go/bUvWYLH

Important Dates

1.     December 17th - 19th: Early Dismissal

2.     December 20th - January 4th: Winter Break

3.     January 4th, 7th, 8th, and 9th: Conferences

A Look in the Classroom

 

1.     ELA: We are doing an adjective and adverb review by parsing sentences. We will also be carefully constructing another paragraph about our Ancient Greece unit.

2.     History: We will do a review of our Ancient Greece unit by creating original paragraphs about the highlights of our lessons.

3.     Science: Students will be able to identify the most important organs in the excretory system.

4.     Math Objectives: (Unit 1 - 3 Review)

1.     Count, read, and write whole numbers to 1,000 and identify the place value for each digit 

2.     Read and write number words for numbers to 1,000

3.     Count on or back by hundreds, tens, or ones from a number within 1,000.

4.     Order and compare whole numbers review strategies for adding and subtracting mentally within 20 using base

5.     10 properties of numbers 

6.     Review part-whole concepts in word problems 

7.     Review comparison concepts in word problems 

8.     Add and subtract

9.     Compare the same lengths measured in different units 

10. Estimate and measure lengths to the nearest meter, centimeter, yard, foot, or inch -Add and subtract lengths 

11. Measure curved lengths 

12. 1,000 by using the symbols <, >, and =

13. Rename 1 ten as 10 ones and 1 hundred as 10 tens. 

14. Review addition and subtraction within 1,000

15. Add or subtract 1, 2, 10, 20, 100, or 200 from a number within 1,000

 

 

 Again, so many thanks to all who made our Greek Celebration possible.

Week of: 12/10/18

Important Dates

 

1.     December 17th - 19th: Early Dismissal

2.     December 20th - January 4th: Winter Break

A Look in the Classroom

 

1.     ELA: We will do a close review of adjectives and adverbs and continue writing paragraphs. We will finish our Sarah Plain and Tall unit strong with more letter writing.

2.     Science: Students will understand the urinary system is part of the excretory system. We will also discuss how the kidneys filter blood.

3.     History: We will be discussing Ancient Greece's greatest thinker's: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. We will also learn about Alexander the Great.

4.     Math Objectives:

1.     Practice division facts for 2 and 3

2.     Solve work problems

3.     Understand division with remainders

4.     Solve simple word problems involving remainders

5.     Understand that an odd number has a remainder of 1 when divided by 2

6. Identify odd and even numbers within 20 

Assessments

 

1.     Friday: Spelling test and Ancient Greece Test (study guide goes home on Thursday 12/13)

Week of 12/3/18

Announcements

 

1.     Part 3 of the Simple Machines Project is due Wednesday, December 4th.

2.    Poem recitation Friday. 

 

Important Dates

 

1.     December 17th - 19th: Early Dismissal

2.     December 20th - January 4th: Winter Break

A Look in the Classroom

 

1.     ELA: In Grammar we are doing a close examination of adjectives. For writing, we are focusing on letter writing, which is a beautiful addition to our Sarah Plain and Tall unit! We will also extend our discussion on topic sentences.

2.     History: We will discuss the first Olympics! Students will be able to identify the most important battles of the Persian Wars and we will take a close look at the architecture of Athens.

3.     Science: Students will continue examine the digestive system, with a close review of each of the 5 part. 

4.     Math Objectives:

1.     Relate  division  by  2  to  multiplication  by  2. 

2.     Practice  division  facts  for  2  

3.     Solve  word  problems   

4.     Practice  multiplication  facts  for  2  and  3  and  division  facts  for  2   

 

Assessments

 

1.     Friday, December 7th: Spelling Test

2.     Monday, December 10th: Science Test (Study Guide going home Friday, December 7th)