Homework

Here is the homework for the upcoming week. We are reviewing the 1st semester materials for our mid year assessments, which are underway!

We are responsible citizens in 2nd grade. We take responsibility for our actions. Draw a picture of you being responsible- what are you doing in the picture? Write 3 sentences about your picture, and your responsible choices.	We live in the Region where the  Eastern Woodland Native American lived.  Do a brain dump on transportation, food, and housing.	Make flashcards for this week’s sight words.  Practice flashing them with an adult.	Write the steps to make hot chocolate: Use sequencing words- first, then, next, last	Write the fact families for the following equations: 3+4=7 6+7=13
Read a story with a grown up.  What book did you read? Before you read make 1 prediction about what will happen. After reading the book, check to see was your prediction correct?	Cut and sort your word study for the week. After you sort, read your words out loud twice. Keep in a safe place to practice for your test.	Sort your word study words and write them 1 time.  Read them three times.	Label the 3 American Indian tribes and list different foods they ate.	Read a book with a grown up. What book did you read? What did it make you think about, or remind you of?
Round the following numbers to the nearest 10. 32 67 45 12	Review your study guides (that have been passed out) Practice locating and naming the continents and oceans.	START HERE Cut, sort and read your word study words	Sort your Word Study Words and glue them down onto paper.  Read through them 2 times.	Write your sight words in crazy colors. Read them 3 times.
Read a book and  write a connection you made; Text to myself, text to my world, text to text. Write what it made you think about.	Write your sight words in ABC order. Read through them 3 times	Make a T chart and review the contributions of Ancient China and Ancient Egypt.	Be a number detective and find the missing numbers. Don’t forget your number line: ? + 4= 9 ? +12= 20	Read a story. Write 2 or more sentences telling me the characters and setting.  What was the problem in the story?
Have a grown up call out your Word Study Words.  Write them down like you are taking a spelling test.  Sort your words and check to see how you did!	Use your sight words in 5 sentences. Underline your sight word in each one. Find the ACTION WORD and circle it. Find the noun (person, place or thing) and put a box around it.	Write the following numbers. Circle the number in the Hundreds place, and box in the number in the tens place. 435,  231,  789,  700,	Find a family member to read with.  What book did you read? Where did the book take place? Who were the characters?	Read through your list of sight words! Use 5 of them in silly nonsense sentences. Circle each sight

This weeks sight words are:
which
there
would
about
other
something
people
number
they
over

3 weeks!

Hello Families,
We have 3 weeks until we get another break. Between now and then we will administer mid year assessments in history, science, and math.  Please review the study guides sent home on all topics covered thus far.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and is ready for these 3 weeks to fly by!

Take care,
Mrs. P

update- Sight words

Here are this week's sight words.

show

another

answer

nurse

computer

three

through

end

around

should

Homework

This week is a modified homework schedule. BINGO will come home on Friday, for next week.
Below is teh plan for this week!

Modified Homework for the week of 11/29/10

Due to the Thanksgiving Break, homework did not come home on Friday. As a result, this week we will have a modified homework policy. Please return to school by Friday, December 3^rd. New homework will come home in the BINGO format on Friday.

Each night please read 15-20 minutes with your child.

Monday- Cut and Sort your word study words. After sorting read them to a grown up.

Tuesday- Use your sight words to write 5 different sentences. Make sure to underline your sight word.

Wednesday- extend the following patterns

a b a bb a bbb a bbbb

2, 4, 6, 8,

red, yellow, blue, red red, yellow, blue, red red red, yellow, blue

Thursday- Glue your word study words down and review for spelling tests.  Practice reading your sight words

Homework is due on Friday J

Homework 11/19/10

No homework next week! Have a great Thanksgiving!!!!

Grandparent's Day!

Tuesday was Grandparent's Day here at school! In celebration our fabulous team in the office put together a spectacular event.  There were treats, coffee, pictures, singing, visits, and warmth spread throughout the building. We had the treat of being joined by some of our Grandparents! Here are some pictures that captured part of the visit! We hope the grandparents that joined us had a great time too.

Homework

Homework will come home on Monday.  We had a hairy afternoon full of Interims, Spirit Shirts, and Sharing bags! 
I am posting homework  and sight words, if you would like to get a jump on some of the activities. If you need extra time to complete homework, let me know and we can work something out!

Have a great weekend!

Homework for November 5th

Happy Friday! This week's homework will be coming home today! Have a great weekend!

 

A contribution is a gift or something that is done for others. What contribution do you make to our classroom? Is it your kindness, smile, helpfulness...?	We are collecting fall items as a project this week. Write a clue about 1 of your items and see if a family member can guess your item! Use lots of describing words.	Make flashcards for this week’s sight words.  Practice flashing them with an adult.	Creative Writing: All of the leaves turned colors when _____	Architecture – are things that are built in a community! Be your own architect and design (illustrate) a building.  Label it with words or phrases to help you remember the definition
Read a story with a grown up.  What book did you read? Before you read make 1 prediction about what will happen. After reading the book, check to see was your prediction correct?	Cut and sort your word study for the week. After you sort, read your words out loud twice. Keep in a safe place to practice for your test.	Sort your word study words and write them 1 time.  Read them three times.	Answer the following subtraction facts: 20-9= 12-3= 17-7= 18-2=	Read a book with a grown up. What book did you read? What did it make you think about, or remind you of?
SCIENCE REVIEW: Write the 3 states of matter and illustrate them. Illustrate what needs to change (hint: on a thermometer) in order to change the states!	Solve the following word problem- use illustrations and words to show how you came up with your answer! 27 students were at lunch, 8 friends joined in. How many friends are eating together?	START HERE Cut, sort and read your word study words	Sort your Word Study Words and glue them down onto paper.  Read through them 2 times.	Write your sight words in crazy colors. Read them 3 times.
Draw a circle and write the word happy in the middle. Have a grown up help you brainstorm synonyms for the word- and write and illustrate the synonyms around it.	Write your sight words in ABC order. Read through them 3 times	Synonyms are words with similar meanings, antonyms are opposites. Write and illustrate antonyms for these words: nice, up, big, in, on	We’re back to addition and subtraction! Make and practice your flash cards for 10’s and doubles facts.   Practice them with a timer! See how fast you can get with your facts!	Read a story. Write 2 or more sentences telling me the characters and setting.  What was the problem in the story?
Have a grown up call out your Word Study Words.  Write them down like you are taking a spelling test.  Sort your words and check to see how you did!	Use your sight words in 5 sentences. Underline your sight word in each one. Find the ACTION WORD and circle it. Find the noun (person, place or thing) and put a box around it.	Climate is the type of weather that happens most in an area. Illustrate the climate we see in Virginia- hint it changes 4 times a year! Write your kid friendly definition of climate on your illustration.	Find a family member to read with.  What book did you read? Where did the book take place? Who were the characters?	Read through your list of sight words! Use 5 of them in silly nonsense sentences. Circle each sight word.

Your sight words are:
mother
answer
study
still
learn
should
America
world
high

What's new in the classroom!?

Welcome to November! By now we have setteled into the Second Nine Weeks of school. Interim report cards will come home next week. In History we have learned about Ancient China and Egypt. We are ready to take our unit test tomorrow. In Math we are wrapping up place value, however will still use it as we dive into addition. More to come from the students about that this week- hopefully a video about how we use place value!

Before you know it, the holidays will be right on top of us.  Please continue to find the time to read nightly with you child, as our fluency is increasing dramatically!

Finally, I leave you with few snapshots of our busy workers in class. 

2nd 9 Weeks!

Wow!! We have completed our first nine weeks of school! It was very busy, but a TON of fun.  Between now and Winter Break we will cover many new topics. In History we will begin a 2 1/2 week unit on China and Egypt. We will follow up with a unit about Native Americans. Before we leave for break we will wrap up the 9 weeks with a unit on Magnets in Science.
In Math we are starting a unit on Place Value, Estimation, and comparing numbers.  We will then transition into using graphs to interpret data!
I hope you are just as excited to see what we put together and post on the blog for these topics!

Weather People

We have been studying weather in Science. Today we wrote and recorded a weather report. Here is a couple of our "Weather People" hard at work.

The Tragic Tale of Rascal the Ice Cube

This is the Tragic Tale of an Ice Cube named Rascal. Today our class wrote a story as a whole group about what happened to our "solid friend" Rascal!  After we wrote the story, we buddied up and illustrated each part.  We created a Photo Story using our illustrations, and reading each part as the drama unfolds!

Enjoy the journey through the states of matter!

Brought to you by the P People of 2nd grade!

Doubles Facts

In math we are working on our doubles addition facts! Today we illustrated and shared the pages in our Doubles Class Book. We worked in pairs to create an illustration to go with the 'fact rhyme.'  Here is what we came up with! Enjoy!!!

What is an American Citizen?

In our study of American citizens we learned that America is called the 'Melting Pot' because people emigrated here from all over the world.  Our discussion led us to the fact that Americans are all different. I had two students "Define" an American citizen and here is what they had to say!

american citizens are all  diffrent.

we live in diffrint homes.

we eat diffrent food.

we have diffrent hair.

we have diffrent close.

we have diffrent bookbag.

we have diffrent dogs.

people are diffrent colors.

some people are brown and peach.

Our Blogger hard at work typing up his definition!

American Citizen Quilt depicting each of our families, decorated with red, white, and blue!

                                                                                   Some of my "Good Citizens" waiting patiently

Voting

Today we made the ultimate decision- Skittles or Starbursts! I know, I know- it was tough! In our voting activity we made a choice between the two candies. Majority rules, and Skittles won!  We then had to vote on what to do with the bag of Starbursts. After a class discussion, we decided to give them to another 2nd grade classroom. With another vote in order, Mrs. L's class won! We presented them with their bag of candy and came back to class to review the rules of voting. Below are rules brought to you by MB and KC- in their own words!

Rules of Voting

you  have to be a good citesen.

you dont tell your friends who to vote for.

you  dont always win.

 you vote on a ballot.

Starburst!

Skittles please!

Skittles again!!

That's another vote for Skittles!

Typing up the rules- after a rough draft

Finishing touches on the blog!

History Vocabulary

In history we are working on understanding citizenship. This unit has some pretty heavy vocabulary. To help us learn the words, we made vocabulary posters in groups of 3 today. Here are what some of our "P People" have to say about the terms- citizenship, trustworthiness, respect, honesty, self-discipline, self-reliance, responsibility.

Trustworthiness

Self-Discipline

  

Respect

Self-Reliance

Math Notebooks

In math today we worked in our interactive notebooks. We made addition 'flip ups.' Addition problems were written on the outside of each flap, students solved the problems and wrote the answer underneath. We will use these to practice for the rest of the year!

"In the picture I write the answer 12."

Our "Blogger" hard at work posting his sentence.

What's in store for week 2!

Welcome to week 2 of school! Now that we have gotten our introductions out of the way, practiced our rules, and solidified our routine it is time to get more in depth into the curriculum. Here's a glimpse of what's in store for the "P People" this week.

History- 
We will do class voting to simulate decision making at a government level, and discuss how people are voted into office.
We continue to demonstrate good citizenship at school by taking care of our school building and peers.

Math-
Addition and subtraction rule our math lessons this week. We will begin looking at fact families, continue to play addition and subtraction "games," and dive into story problems!

Reading-
We will continue our classroom reading group roations each day- warming our brains up with wordstudy, writing, guided reading, and independent reading time.

Writing-
This week we begin our new writing program Teach Me Writing.  We will write about family activities.

This week is sure to be a productive, engaging time in our room!

We invite you to check back to see what we've shared!

Happy Monday,

-Mrs. P's Second Grade

First Week Jitters!

Dear Readers,
     Did you know that a teacher has trouble falling asleep, the night before school starts? True story!  Just like a student feels excitement, walking up to class that very first time, a teacher anticipates what the year holds in store.  So many questions, to do lists, and supplies to sort out- before even getting to know everyone's first name.  This year in 2nd grade, I was lucky enough to move up with last years group of FABULOUS first graders, into SPECTACULAR second graders.  Even with familiar faces, we created a new bunch- as we welcomed new friends to school.  We have accomplished so much in 5 short days- just look at our math, history, and writing journals.  As the first week of school winds down, I have come to realize a few very important things about the class- I must say they are a marvelous class.

We  are a unique group of individuals who care about one another, and show compassion in many ways!
We are excellent readers!
We can solve addition problems using number lines, counters, and we are good at it too!
Standing in line and walking through the hallway is one of our collective strengths!
We will work for suckers and stickers!

This year will be an excellent year of learning for everyone, and I invite you to join us on our journey! Through our blog, we hope to highlight achievement and hardwork- and share it with the world. After all, we are here to change it!

-Mrs. P's Second Grade