For homework this week, the students
will be asked to write a personal narrative story about a holiday family
tradition. If you don't celebrate a winter holiday, it can be a story about any
holiday throughout the year. This
assignment will take the place of the weekly Reading Log. The children will
be encouraged to share their stories with the class. In addition to the writing
assignment, your child will have a math worksheet 2 nights this week and their
Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe.
This week we will be focusing on making
words plural during our phonics lessons. The students will learn the
combinations that require you to add -es instead of just s.
We will also do a lesson on Character
Traits which will lead us into a seasonal writing in which the kids will get to
pretend that they are an elf and have the opportunity to use character traits
to write a persuasive letter to Santa telling him why he should hire them.
During reading groups this week, we
will continue talking about character traits by describing the traits of the
main characters in our Guided Reading books.
Math this week will focus on using
place-value and expanded form to compare 3-digit numbers. We will do a practice
Open Response question where the children will make sense of a 3-digit number
represented by base-10 blocks by making trades or counting. Then we will come
together on the following day to analyze explanations and drawings and then the
children will have the opportunity to revise their work.
We will be finishing up our unit on
Matter this week by continuing to sort objects (solids, liquids, and gases) by
their scientific properties (color, shape, size, odor, texture, and weight).
The students will be taking their Matter Assessment on Thursday.
Reminders:
Tuesday, December 8th is School Store
for Grade Two
Thursday, December 10th is an Early
Release (Professional Development)
I hope you have a great week!
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