Week of Oct. 16

Important Dates:

October 17 Picture Day!

October 19

Mellow Mushroom Spirit Night

2nd Grade Performance @ 6:00

October 24

Picture Retakes

Things to Do:

-Fall conferences are concluding in the next two weeks. Please reach out to your child's teacher if you have not scheduled a conference.

-Kindergarten is learning their colors! If possible, dress in the following colors

2nd Grade Performance:

Please make sure your child arrives at 5:30. Students will walk to their homeroom and parents can head to the cafeteria to find seats. Students should wear a white t shirt and jeans or dark pants. The performance will begin at 6:00 ending around 6:30. Students will then return to the classroom where they will be picked up safely.

Please ensure the orange permission form is filled out as well.

What We're Learning:

Reading:

This week it is allll about nonfiction! We are so excited to identify some nonfiction text features and explore what makes them different from our fiction stories we have been focused on.

Writing/Grammar:

In grammar, we will continue to look at sentences with a deeper look at types of sentences. We will expand our vocabulary with the various types, but will mainly be looking at how we can include these different types of sentences in our writing! We will be working on our worst "ouch" story!

Spelling will focus on the tricky short vs. long U sounds.

Math 2.1:

We are continuing our journey into addition strategies by exploring new strategies in two digit addition WITHOUT regrouping. This means we aren't "carrying" yet. We will explore the traditional up and down method which we will quickly find makes the most sense this week! However, with regoruping next week, we find challenges. Applying different strategies here might help us make more sense of that traditional method we all learned as kids.

This week we will explore:

Number line addition (with skip counting)

Base Ten Blocks and Base Ten Drawings

And Expanded Form Addition

Math 2.2:

We are learning all about polygons this week as we work on exploring geometry. We will look at plane shapes and identify sides, vertices, and angles. We will expand our vocabulary by discussing deeper geometric concepts!

Math 3.1:

We are reviewing just how addition and subtraction are related by using the inverse to check our math. We are working on regrouping across multiple zeros and will look for ways to challenge our thinking. We will also review line plots this week and begin our study guide. This unit is a review unit to ensure we have the skills needed to expand our thinking in future units. We will plan for our test to take place next Thursday (10/26)

Social Studies

This week we are shifting our focus back to social studies with a look at map skills. We will explore our world through Google Earth and atlas explorations. We will look at our community and even create maps of our own based on places we are familiar with. We will look at the cardinal directions as well as map keys to help us create the best map we can!