Weekly Update 11/7

We had a very busy and fun week in the classroom! The week started out with an exciting Harvest Party, which was organized and run by our fabulous Room Mom, Debbie Porthouse! The kids had a great time making a skeleton craft, enjoying a yummy snack, and playing a mummy wrap game! The kids costumes were amazing as well! We are looking forward to our next classroom party, the Winter Party in December.
















This week our reading groups focused on reading fictional text and discussing literary elements including: character, setting, problem, and solution. Next week I will begin doing reading assessments in preparation for parent teacher conferences and the end of Term 1.


Math this week focused on subtraction strategies such as: counting back, counting up, and subtracting 0 and 1. The kids also enjoyed playing 2 new games called Salute and Subtraction Top-It. Ask them about these games, as they are great games to play at home to practice their math facts! You can find the directions by logging onto your child’s Everyday Math Account. Their login information is in their Take Home Folders inside one of the plastic sleeves. Once you login, click on the Everyday Math book image to enter the site.


During writing this week the children worked on revising and editing their personal narrative stories. The children learned about starting sentences in various ways and having a variety of sentence lengths in their stories to make the writing sound more interesting. They have also been editing their stories to check for capitals and punctuation, as well as correctly spelled high frequency words. The kids are really doing an excellent job with their personal narrative stories!


We wrapped up our Plant and Animal Survival unit in Science. The kids learned about the final habitat, which was the Ocean Habitat. We also spend some time reviewing all of the habitats for the assessment that will be given this coming week.


Overall, it was a great week in Second Grade! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!


Upcoming Dates:
- Monday, November 7th at 3:30 Online Conference Sign-up begins
- No School November 8th for Professional Development
- No School November 11th for Veteran's Day
- Friday, November 18th- Mismatched Clothes Spirit Day
- Monday, November 21st is a Two Hour Delay for Parent Teacher Conferences
- No School Tuesday, November 22nd for Parent Teacher Conferences
- Wednesday, November 23rd Race for Education
- Wednesday, November 23rd Early Release for Thanksgiving Break
- No School November 24th and 25th for Thanksgiving


Here is what the kids had to say:

“My favorite part of the week was that I got to be Star of the Week.”
- Dylan


“My favorite part of the week was the Halloween Party because we made skeletons.”
- Troy


“This week I learned the Mummy Wrap game.”
- Yuvraj


“My favorite part of the week was that we got 3 new ipads for our classroom.”
- Raushan


“This week I learned that sea stars can live 150 feet under the water.”
- Josie