December 14-18

There will be no written homework or spelling this week in 2nd Grade! Happy Holidays!

Thursday (12/17) is the annual 2nd Grade Polar Express Day. We will be reading and completing activities from this book.  Please send your child to school wearing his or her pajamas on Thursday 12/17!

The winter party is this Friday (12/18) at 11:20 in your child’s classroom. School will be dismissed at 12:00 on this day.

We are looking forward to a fun week as we get ready for winter break! 

Here's what we are learning this week:

Reading: Readers build a characteristic chart of our story arc - we will review how the story arc helps with purpose and structure!

Writing: Writers choose what they want to write about! We will review all of the types of writing and students will choose the work they want to produce!

Math: We will review bar models and take an assessment on Tuesday to show what we learned!

Social Studies: We will learn about holiday traditions and their significance!

Science: We will learn about magnets!

December 7-11

What a great start we had to December! Our Fun Run for Woodview Elementary was a success! Thank you for all of your generosity and support! Also thanks to all who donated for Toys for Tots! The students had a great time sharing the holiday spirit and joy with others!

Check out what we are learning this week..

Reading: Readers understand that inner dialogue is a craft element that authors use to develop the character. Inner dialogue is when a character is thinking to himself or herself. Authors usually do not use quotation marks or italics for inner dialogue. It should be written normally!

Writing: This week in writing we are giving the students some free choice to use the techniques and genres of writing that they have learned about all semester! The choices include: Science/Social Studies topic writing (nonfiction books), letters (to Santa, elves, family and friends), personal narratives and holiday writing activities! The students have learned so many writing formats and styles and we can’t wait to see what they choose!

Math: In math we are moving forward and adding some steps in our bar model problems! We will continue to work with word problems in both addition and subtraction and will dive into 2-step problems!

Social Studies: We will learn about communities: urban, suburban and rural. How are they different? How are they similar? What do we find in each? What is it like living in each community?

Science: We will continue our study of balance and motion! We will look at rolling objects and how ramps/wheels affect motion.

Landforms

Our landform quiz is coming up Friday - here's an "anchor chart" of the landforms we focused on this week! Look for a review coming home with your student tomorrow to study for Friday!