2nd Grade Rocks with Miss Garcia: November 2015

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Quarter 2- week 7

Welcome Back 2nd Grade Families,

I hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving Break. The second grade students will continue to work on 2D & 3D shapes. Your second grader will use common shapes to create new shapes, tell the difference between straight and curved lines as well as identify and continue a pattern according to 2 attributes (color, shape, size, or orientation)

As far as projects goes, we will finish up “Everything Matters” either this week OR next week and present our ideas to our fellow 2nd grade classmates. We have quite the group of creative, scientific thinkers in 2nd grade!

Here is homework for Week 16...

Monday	IXL T.6 Compare sides and angles
Tuesday	IXL T.5 Count edges vertices and faces
Wednesday	pg. 155 & 156
Thursday	pg. 161 & 162

A Note from Mrs. Rowlett

Welcome back second grade families, I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful. Last week in Language Arts we reviewed standards learned earlier in the year and completed assessments. This week we will be back on schedule and will have a book to read and a response log each night. Also a Scholastic book order went home on Tuesday. If you would like to order the deadline for online orders is December 11 and orders returned to the class is December 3.

Have a great week!

Monday, November 23, 2015

Math News

Diamond vs. Rhombus

We are in the process of shapes both 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes…

2-D shapes consist of: circle, oval, square, hexagon, octagon, rectangle etc.

3-D shapes consist of: pyramid, cone, cylinder, triangular prism, hexagonal prism, sphere etc.

During the years of your child’s Early Childhood Development they call a rhombus a “diamond.” However, as we get into the Nevada State Content Standards, a diamond is not a shape, it is a rhombus which puts it into the category with parallelograms. A rhombus is a flat shape with 4 equal straight sides. At Oasis Academy we will refer to a “diamond” as a rhombus.

This is a diamond… These are all considered rhombus shapes...

Mondays Homework

November 23rd - T.4

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Week of November 16

Happy Monday,

We have sad but exciting news...one of our 2nd grade friends moved back to Reno this weekend, so that means that we will be getting a NEW 2nd grade friend this Monday! The kids and I are so excited to meet our new student.

I am always so proud of how your children care for and show concern for other students!

We will continue to count money this week. I will be introducing bills and money within word problems. It is great real world practice for your student to count amounts of change at home. We have discussed how to exchange money for equivalent amounts.

Here is your 2nd graders homework for the week of November 16th - 19th.

Monday	IXL - P.3 count pennies, nickels and dimes
Tuesday	IXL - P.4 count money up to $1
Wednesday	Homework Page
Thursday	IXL - P.7 Equivalent coins

News from Mrs. Rowlett

2nd graders are doing a great job in reading. We are working on story elements and comprehension strategies especially now that we are all reading chapter books. Students are beginning to bring home comprehension questions to answer with their assigned book. One of the second grade standards states that students need to be able to answer questions about what they have read. They should be able to answer these questions quickly and I ask that they restate their questions and answer in complete sentence. Continue to have your child practice reading aloud to you.