Week of Feb 5

Important Dates:

Feb. 9th

-All Pro Dads @ 7:00 a.m

-Let’s Speak English! Culture Class

Feb 14th

Valentine Box STEAM homework due

Feb 15th

Living Museum 1:00- 1:45 PM

Feb. 16th

Regular School Day (Make-up day)

Feb 19th

No School: President's Day

Things to Do:

-Please let your teacher know if your child has contracted a communicable disease such as the flu or strep. We are spreading the word on washing hands and keeping our coughs and sneezes contained!

-Please read the back of the homework calendar for information regarding the math STEAM homework! Your learner will be designing a box for their valentines! Please note that sending valentines is optional, but if you do so, please make sure there is one for all!

What We're Learning:

Reading

We are so excited to apply what we've been learning about biographies to our own studies on our famous figures for living museum! We will learn how to take all of the information we've learned and sequence it, most notably like our timelines!

Check out the links below for some resources on famous figures!

Writing/Grammar

We will be looking at irregular plural nouns this week!

In writing we will focus on sequencing our events from our research for our living museum. We will look at how to choose the most interesting information from our person and how we can transform this into a story rather than a list of facts.

Math 2.1

We are continuing our addition and subtraction practice with application based lessons this week! We will be looking into using our skills to help investigate problems with money. We will think of this in connection with class run businesses and visits to class run stores. We will look at subtracting across zeros, which can be quite tricky, but something we know these second graders are ready to conquer!

Math 2.2

It's all about division this week! We are introducing division by looking at equal groups. We will start with our quotient and use lots of modeling and pictures to help us determine our answer.

Math 3.1

We are taking a deeper look at fractions this week as we integrate it with measurement! We will use our understanding to help us measure even more accurately. We will then apply this understanding of reading our rulers to the nearest quarter inch to then reading a number line with fractions.

Science/SS

We are so very excited to begin our studies for our biography presentation with our living museum! We will be fully immersed this week in our research! Ask your historian what they've learned on their famous people and you will be amazed at the excitement and knowledge already being learned! :)