November 10-14

Hello 2nd grade! Happy Veteran's Day!

Let's start off this blog post with some fun "Math Fact Practice Strategies"!

From www.fantasticfunandlearning.com ... here are some great tips to make math facts FUN!

• Use the flashcards like a card game of WAR. The person with the largest sum/product wins the war. 
• Create a memory type game where kids have to match the fact to the answer. 
• Find a fun Math Facts App on your mobile device for the kids to use.
• Ask kids how they want to practice their math facts. You might be surprised by how creative their ideas are. 
• Play Go Fact Family with the same rules as Go Fish. Find all the flashcards that create one fact family. You can do one operation at a time: Addition (3+2, 2+3) or you can do two related operations: Addition & Subtraction (2+3, 3+2, 5-2, 5-3). Great for older students!
• Make a Math Facts Poster. Let your student create a work of art full of math facts. Layout a poster board or large sheet of paper. In the middle of the paper, write a large number. Then the student can write all the facts for that number around the outside. Get crafty!
• Play Hop to It. Have your student write each fact on a large index card or sheet of paper. Spread the cards around the room. They can be scattered or along a pathway.  It can also be figured like a hopscotch board.  Then get moving! The student can move across the room by jumping on the fact and saying the fact out loud. You can also try dancing, twirling, or wiggling from math fact to math fact, whatever your child enjoys. This lets your child write the fact, see the fact, and say the fact!
• Get out the sidewalk chalk and write the facts on your driveway!

Here's what's going on in 2nd grade this week..

In WRITING we are continuing the Writer's Workshop process. We are continuing to take pieces from the beginning through the final stages of publishing.

In READING we are identifying events on a story arc - looking at what does setting the stage, rising action, climax and resolution mean!

In MATH we are continuing subtraction with regrouping - please practice this at home as this is a tricky concept for many students!

In SCIENCE we are continuing to study balance and motion!

In SOCIAL STUDIES we are using map skills to locate importance places and landforms on a map and also locating places of significance including our community, our state and our country!

Writing Ideas

Hello 2nd grade! Since we have been working so hard on writing in our classes, we wanted to give you a few ideas for writing at home! Here are a few "Fun Fall Writing Prompts" that you can use with your child. What a fun activity if you want to encourage some extra creativity at home!

Happy Writing! :)

Fall Writing Prompts

1. Describe the first day of school from a pencil’s point of view.

2. Describe fall with your five senses.

3. Make a list of what you bring to school every day.

4. What if you had all the leaves in the world? What would you do with them all?

5. What was your best/worst trick-or-treating experience like?

6. Describe how to carve a pumpkin.

7. What would you do if you were lost in a corn maze?

8. Describe the perfect fall day.

9. Make a list of things you see in fall.

10. Write, from a leaf’s point of view, what it’s like to change colors and fall off the tree.

11. What is your favorite thing about fall? Why?

12. What do you like to wear in the fall? Why?

13. Describe how to make a pie.

14. How would you catch a turkey?

15. What is your favorite thing about Thanksgiving? Why?

16. Make a list of your Thanksgiving day traditions.

17. Compare/contrast fall and winter.

November 3 - 7

This week in second grade... FRIDAY is Field Day! :)  There will be no spelling test this week!

Writing- We will continue to work on fall themed writing.


Reading- We will identify events on a story arc.


Math- We will be learning subtraction with regrouping through the thousands.


Science- We will be starting our unit on balance and motion.


Social Studies-  We will use map skills to locate important places and landforms on a map. We will locate places of significance including the local community, Texas and the U.S. on maps and globes.