Week 3 August 29, 2016

                                                                                                                          August 29, 2016

Dear Second Grade Families,

It’s hard to believe we will be entering our 3rd week of school!!  The first 2 weeks have been very busy and all  2nd graders are getting settled into a routine.   

Math

This week in Math we worked on a very difficult but important skill--renaming tens and ones.  I must say, Miss Garcia and myself are very proud of how hard students worked to understand this concept.  We used manipulatives and drew pictures to help us work on this skill.  Here's an example...

If the number is 32, it can be renamed the following ways.

32
Tens	Ones
3	2
I I I	■■
2	12
I I	■■■■■■■■■■ ■■
1	22
I	■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ ■■
0	32
	■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■■■■■■ ■■

We will continue to review this skill as it will be very important for mental math.  Other skills we worked on were reading and writing 2-digit numbers.  Remember to check out our math resource page on the blog, we are updating it often.

Here is the homework for the week...

Monday	IXL A.6 Number Lines- Up To 100
Tuesday	IXL A.9 Even or Odd
Wednesday	IXL M.2 Place Value Models-Up To Hundreds
Thursday	No Weekend Homework (Enjoy the long weekend with your family!!)

Language

We continued to study nouns this week.  Our focus was with common and proper nouns.  Students are learning that proper nouns name a specific person, place, or thing.  All proper nouns are capitalized. This is a review of a first grade standard, but will lead to the 2nd grade standards that relate to nouns.

Writing

In writing we are continuing a work on our riddles about ourselves.  We were able to take our prewriting (circle map and tree map) and write a rough draft.  Students needed to pick 6 to 9 ideas from their tree map and turn it into a clue.  This writing assignment is really coming together, I can hardly wait to see the finished product.

Projects

Our work with our Tribes Project has continued.  We focused on the Tribes Agreements of Mutual Respect, No Put Downs, and Appreciations.  For each agreement we have made an artifact for the class so that we will remember the agreement throughout the year.

We finally got on our Chromebooks.  It is very exciting for 2nd graders, since each 2nd grader is issued their own Chromebook.  Every week we will be using the Chromebooks more and more.  The students of Room 17 have been so patient as we have started this journey.  It is so amazing to see students gain proficiency with this technology as the year progresses.

News from Mrs. Rowlett

We had a great week of learning last week.  The students have done a great job getting back into our routines. 2nd graders will begin guided reading groups this week.  We are so excited that we can begin reading groups so soon.  Your child will have  book to read beginning this week.  Your child will be bringing their books home in a plastic envelope, this will need to be returned daily along with any reading logs that need to be completed.  Please listen to your child read nightly.

Last week the students learned about the closed syllable.  These are syllables that have one vowel, that is followed by one or more consonants and the vowel is short. Examples of a closed syllable are (stop, prob, lem, cat, fish,). We also finished our review of reading secrets by looking at students names.

This weekend we celebrate Labor Day Weekend.  Miss Garcia and myself hope that you and your family enjoy the extra day!

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield

and

Shannon Garcia

Week 2 -- August 22-25

Last week we focused on mainly review skills that your students learned last year.  I wanted to get a feel for where their learning was after our summer break!  The 2nd graders worked on skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.  They recorded a 2 digit number within 10-99, began writing numbers in word form AND found found one more, one less, within 100 by using a 100 chart as a tool.

In Language Arts we focused on nouns.  The students created a poster and a circle map listing any person, place or thing as a noun.  We will use these posters as tools in the room to refer to as the year goes on.  

While in Mrs. Rowlett's class the 2nd graders shopped for good fit books. They read for a whole 15 minutes without breaking stamina GREAT JOB 2nd Grade!!! We also reviewed the phonic secret stories and looked at syllables within words. We will begin reading groups soon!!

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Monday	IXL B.1 Comparing Numbers Up to 100.
Tuesday	IXL A.7 Hundred’s Chart
Wednesday	IXL C.2 Writing Numbers Up to 100’s in Words
Thursday	IXL M.1 Place Value Models-tens and ones

Here are some fun pictures from the 1st week of school!

 

Have a great week!!

Miss Garcia & Mrs. Rowlett

Week 1 Homework

Week 1

Second Grade Homework

August 15 -18

Welcome to the 2016-2017 school year!  Mrs. Bloomfield and I were so happy to see you on Thursday afternoon!  We can’t wait to see more of our students and families on Back to School Night on August 18th!  We would also like to express a HUGE thank you to all of the Oasis helpers and volunteers, we couldn’t make all of this happen without YOU!  

Our main focus of the first week of school will be working on the day to day routines that are so important to establish.  Time spent on routines early in the year make the rest of the year run very smoothly.  Even though we will be working hard on our routines our academic work will begin as well.  We will begin switching for reading with Mrs. Loop and Mrs. Rowlett  starting on Monday.  Our first writing assignment will also be started this week.  We will also begin our first project of the year, which will focus around the Tribes Agreements of Mutual Respect, Attentive Listening, Appreciations, No Put-Downs, and the Right to Pass.  It's going to be a busy week!!

Remember, it's a long day for 2nd graders!  Going to school until 4:00 PM is a big transition from last year!  When you take a longer school day and add on activities such as soccer, football, or dance; there is bound to be an adjustment period.  Please make sure that your child has a second snack for the afternoon.  They will definitely be tired, be sure to establish bedtimes that ensure that your child gets enough sleep.  

As we move into this new school year, Ms. Garcia and myself will be sending home assigned math homework starting Monday.  The homework schedule for the week is listed below.  We will be teaching classroom routines and beginning some informal assessments.  We suggest that you practice your homework time routine on Monday and Tuesday evening by spending 20 minutes reading with or to your child and practicing 15 minutes of math OR 10 math problems - not NOT to exceed 15 minutes.  It is our hope to ease your 2nd grader and your family into the new school year.

Happy Back to School,

Mrs. Bloomfield & Miss Garcia

Monday	IXL A.1 Skip Counting
Tuesday	IXL A.3 Skip Counting Sequences
Wednesday	Skip counting worksheet
Thursday	IXL C.2 - Writing numbers up to 100 in word form

Important IXL information for 2nd Grade!

Hello 2nd students,

Just so you know, your IXL user name has stayed the same HOWEVER, I changed all of your passwords to: garcia16

This does NOT mean that you log into someone else's personal IXL account.  You only use your IXL account and then enter garcia16 for the password.

I will go over this information again on August 18th which is Back to School Night.

See your smiling faces soon,
Miss Garcia

Attention Parents!

Your child will receive an Oasis Academy Binder on the first day of school.  It will need to be brought back and forth to school EACH DAY!

However, this year, we are asking that the forms, located in the binder,  will need to be filled out and kept in your childs binder OR at home until Back to School Night on August 18th.  We will have a organized system in which the forms will be turned in that night.  If you choose to fill them out at the beginning of the week your child MUST keep them in their Oasis Academy binder, we will NOT collect these pages until August 18th.

I hope to see you on Thursday, August 11th from 11:00 - 12:00 for a quick visit.  You may also want to bring in your child's school supplies at this time.  See you soon!

Happy August!
Miss Garcia