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!

November 30 - December 4

We hope everyone had a very Happy Thanksgiving!

On WEDNESDAY is our Fun Run to raise money for Woodview Elementary School. Woodview is our sister school and is located behind the HEB off of Bunker Hill Road and I-10. We are doing this fun run to raise money for them to get a new playground. Please feel free to send any amount of money in an envelope or ziplock baggy that says Fun Run and we will make sure that money goes directly to Woodview. During our specials time the students will participate in the Fun Run so please make sure they wear tennis shoes and dress appropriately! 

On THURSDAY we have early dismissal at 1:30! Please do not forget! Also on Thursday is our Toys for Tots toy drive! Please, if you are able, send a toy (unwrapped) and each class will have a time to go take their toys out to the fire truck to be donated. If you want more information on Toys for Tots check out their website here: http://toysfortots.org/

Also on FRIDAY we will have a quiz on Landforms (what we are studying in Social Studies). Please look for a review that will come home with your child on Thursday night!

Here’s what we are learning this week:

Reading: Readers understand that dialogue is a craft element that authors use to develop character and the story.

Writing: Writers write book reviews! We will finish our review unit this week as we write our own review on a favorite book we have read.

Math: We will continue our study of Bar Models with both Addition and Subtraction!

Social Studies: We will study landforms! On FRIDAY there will be a landforms quiz – please look for a review that will come home Thursday night!

Science: We will continue our study of balance and motion!

November 16-20

It’s our last full week of school for November! This semester sure is flying by!

THIS FRIDAY is our Friendship Sandwich lunch! Please refer to the yellow page sent home by your teacher to see what you are responsible for bringing J. Friendship Sandwich is a tradition that 2^nd grade does every year. It’s a fun way for the students to celebrate Thanksgiving together and to see that working together and everyone doing their part is important!

Check out what we are learning this week..

Reading: Readers are able to reproduce the elements of familiar stories using a story arc.

Writing: We will continue our study of Reviews!

Math: We will begin our unit of bar models in Addition and Subtraction – watch for the parent connection letter coming home!

Social Studies: We will study map elements.

Science: We will begin our unit on motion!

November 9-13

Hello everyone! We hope you had a wonderful weekend and that you’re enjoying this lovely cool fall weather! We also hope it stays around J

In reading we have been talking about THEME. We say that the THEME is one or two words that describe the BIG IDEA of the book. As you read with your student at home and finish books encourage them to talk with you about what they think the THEME of the book is! Some examples are: friendship, family, perseverance, bravery, kindness, believing in yourself, etc. See what your student can come up with and talk with them about WHY they think that is the THEME!

Here’s what we are learning this week..

Reading: Readers understand that theme is one or two words that describe the big idea of the book. They can discuss the theme of what they are reading!

Writing: We will continue our study of Reviews! We are talking about the parts of a review: title, lead, claim, support points, explanations, conclusion. Ask your child what these are!

Math: We are continuing to learn subtraction with regrouping and moving on to regrouping in the tens place!

Social Studies: We are learning about me in relation to my world! We will be talking about the different types of maps and how we relate to the world we live in.

Science: We will continue to talk in detail about different forms of energy! 

November 2-6

Happy November! Don’t forget FIELD DAY is this Friday, November 6! Look for a post later in the week with our team names and colors J

Here’s what we are learning this week…

Reading: Readers find author’s purpose in familiar texts! They also understand that theme is one or two words that describe the big idea of the book.

Writing: We will continue our Argumentative/Review unit!

Math: We will learn subtraction with regrouping.

Social Studies: We will begin our geography unit with a study on landforms and landmarks. In this part of the unit, students will discuss different types of landforms and identify local, state, and national landmarks.

Science: We will continue to learn about the different types of energy!