Week of August 26

Important Dates:

Monday, August 26

Parent Coffee @ 8 a.m. – Interpreting GMAS results – Room 131

Tuesday, August 27

School Governance Council Meeting @ 7 a.m in room 131

Wednesday, August 28

Wellness Wednesday

Let’s Speak English – A Conversational English for English (topic – school culture and rules) @ 9 a.m. in room 131

Monday, September 2

Labor Day - No School

Things to Do:

• Please check your child's binder and notebook daily for important notes and communication.

• Check this blog WEEKLY and discuss with your child

• Sign up for Seesaw - Look for this information from your child's teacher.

• Homework will be coming AFTER Labor Day. Please continue reading nightly and practicing your math facts until then!

What We're Learning

Reading

Week's Theme: Acceptance

Main text: Hooway For Wodney Wat {Helen Lester}

This week I can:

I can explain how characters respond to challenges.

I can describe similarities between characters in two different texts.

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RL.2.3 Key Ideas & Details: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

RL 2.6 Craft and Structure: Acknowledge differences in the point of views of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

RL.2.9 Integration of Knowledge & Ideas: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures. (This particular lesson includes texts by the same author, which is a 3rd grade focus).efficiently.

Questions to ask while reading:

How can characters respond to challenging events?

How can characters in different books be similar?

Comprehension Skill: Inference, determine importance, compare/contrast

Reading Strategy Focus: Character Feelings Change

ELA

Mentor Sentence:

Each week we read a mentor text. This is a story with examples of quality writing, good sentence structure, descriptive details, and more. Students will work to identify these features of our mentor sentences along with the parts of speech of each sentence. We will also become editors as we work to practice revising the sentence and making it even better while also looking for errors, word choice, and more.

This week, using our mentor sentence book Officer Buckle and Gloria, we will be focusing on common and proper nouns.

Questions to ask:

What is the difference between the a common and proper noun? How can you tell? What are some examples you can think of?

Phonics: Our phonics pattern for the week has us looking at the short vowel sounds of o, e, and u.

Example Words:

bus, plum, egg, tux, otter, under, sled, elf, tent, sock, frog, blocks

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Math

Math 2.1

This week we are continuing to explore our foundations for numbers and place value. We will continue to represent this in a variety of ways such as expanded form, base ten block form, unit form, standard form, as well as with drawings and models. We will also use our understanding of place value to help us add ten more and ten less with some skip counting practice!

Questions to ask:

What are different forms of numbers, such as expanded form? Can you represent the number 123 in _____ form?

How many hundreds does 433 number have? How many tens are in the number 456?

What is the value of the underlined digit? (Ex. 256 - the value is 50)

What is ten more than the number 73? What is 10 less than the number 89?

Skip count by 5s starting at the number 85.

Math 2.2

This week we will be adding two digit numbers using various strategies. Students will add up to 4 digit numbers with regrouping in the ones and tens place by using base ten blocks. Please see link for examples-https://youtu.be/fD56R17q3Vk

Questions to ask:

How do I add more that 2 addends?

How do I add with regrouping using base ten blocks?

Math 3.1

This week we will take a review look at expanding our knowledge of place value taking it into the millions and beyond! We will look at representing our numbers in a multitude of ways including through multi-step word problems. We will even create our own this week!

Questions to ask:

What is the digit in a 5 digit number called?

What is the value of the underlined digit? Ex: 237,898 - 30,000 (we replace the other digits with zero)

Can you expand a 5 or 6 digit number?

Can you add 1,000 more or take 10,000 less?

Science/SS

This week we are finally ready to tackle to classroom economy! We will take an introductory approach this week as we look specifically at the classroom needs. We will look at jobs our classroom needs to be successful and learn about the application process. Students will be expected to apply for their class jobs as well as potentially interview for their role! We take it very seriously here in second grade!

Questions to ask:

What jobs does our classroom specifically need in order to be successful? Why do I have to have a job? What kind of chaos would we face if we didn't have jobs? What are some needs I have in my life vs the wants?