Weekly News December 19-23, 2016

Report Cards: Your child’s report card is in your child’s Spring Street Folder today. Please return the signed envelope. You may keep the report card. This tells me that you have received your child’s report card. If you have any questions please let me know. I would be happy to talk with you about your child’s progress.

Winter Celebration Snack: Our Winter Celebration will be on Thursday, December 22nd. You may send in a special snack for your child to enjoy during our celebration.

Homework: Our chapter 5 math test came home today. Please look over it with your child, sign and return it to school. Let me know if you have any questions. The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Writing homework is due Friday. Please make sure your child gives you his/her reading log to sign.

Language Arts: We will be reading about baby mammals as we continue to work on finding the main idea of nonfiction text. We will learn about using red flag words in our writing. Red flag words are words that signal that something exciting is coming next. They get the readers attention. Some red flag words include, “all of a sudden,” and  “without warning.” We will continue to practice word family words in our word work.

Mathematics: We will be learning about multiplying by 5s. We will practice finding facts using skip counting and dot paper/arrays.

Social Studies: We will continue to work on getting our Flat Stanley letters ready to be mailed. We will be making a map book. Please send in an address for your child to send his/her Flat Stanley. Thank you for those who have already sent their address back to school.

I hope everyone has a safe, wonderful break!

Weekly News December 5-9, 2016

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December 5-9, 2016

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Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. On our reading log students will now be writing a thought about a book they read. Please see the back for sentence starters for your child to use. Keep working on your writing homework. We are on week two.

Language Arts: We will be working on finding the main idea of sections texts. In word work we will be working with final blends st, nt and mp. Last week the children enjoyed writing poems. We are finishing up our color poem. We will be going back to writing personal narratives. The students will listen to the book Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee. We will learn about how to stretch out the main event of a story using TOADS. TOADS stands for thoughts, observations, actions, dialogue and sounds. Later in the week we will be planning our own Roller Coaster or Ride story.

Mathematics: We are continuing our work on multiplication and division. Will be working on word problems involving multiplication and division. Students will identify the equal group and how many equal groups we have for multiplication. In division stories we will find how many we have and identify how many equal/groups there are or how many is in each group. Students will be working with balancing equations. For example, 3 groups of five = 10+ ____;

2+2+2 = ___ x ___.

Social Studies: We are reading about goods and services in our community.

Video of the Week

We will learn about sound words in the video of the week!
Onomatopoeia

Weekly Newsletter November 28-December 2, 2016

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder.

Language Arts: We will be learning about how nonfiction readers put what they see and think together. Readers ask themselves what is this book teaching me? We will use the table of contents to make predictions and to get ready to learn new information. We will write poetry this week. The children will learn about the Poetry Wheel. They will write their own free verse poems. We will also write a color poem. In December we will going back to personal narrative writing. You can help your child by gathering up ideas for some personal narrative stories.

Mathematics: We are beginning chapter 5 on multiplication and division. We will use equal groups and repeated addition to multiply. We will make multiplication stories. We will divide to share equally. We will use repeated subtraction to divide. Please see the chapter letter in your Spring Street Folder for ways to support and extend this at home with your child.

Science: Thanks for coming to our Nocturnal Animal Fair. The children were very proud of all of their hard work.

Social Studies: We will be learning about goods and services in our community.

Video of the Week

This week we will watch the video Needs and Wants.

Needs and Wants

Video of the Week

This is a silly song we will enjoy this week.
Turkey Song

Weekly News November 14-22, 2016

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. We will not have homework on Monday, November 21st.

Language Arts: The Rotary Club visits second grade on Monday. Our volunteer will read a book to our class and share about what he or she does in the community. We will read the book “I’m New Here.” This book will be discussed at our All-School Meeting on Friday. We will discuss our core value of acceptance. The students will talk about ways we can help new students. We will tie this to ways we show acceptance for all students at school. This week we will work with blends in our word work. We will take our research on our nocturnal animals and discuss how to turn it into a project that teaches others about our animal. We will be writing our informative piece on our nocturnal animal’s adaptations. We will discuss how to use our key words from our notes and turn them into sentences.

Mathematics: We will be working on two step word problems. The students are working on understanding what the problem is asking, representing the problem with bar models, using the bar model to create an equation, solving it and finally record the answer and look back to see if it makes sense. We will be reviewing chapter 4 and most likely be taking our test Friday.

Science: We will be working on showing our learning in our projects.

Social Studies: We will discuss all the services that the library has for Shrewsbury. We will look at maps to identify where our nocturnal animal lives.

Reminders:

•  Our field trip to the library is Tuesday. Please have your child wear sneakers for our walk.

•  Nocturnal Animal Diorama supplies are needed by Wednesday if your child chose this project.

Save the Date: You are invited to attend our Nocturnal Animal Fair on Monday, November 21, 2016 from 9:00-10:00. We hope you can make it!