September 11, 2016
Dear Second Grade Families,
The weather is getting cooler, soccer, football, and other fall activities are in full swing. Mrs. Bloomfield and I are loving that our second graders are in their school routine.
Math
Last week in math our focus was to continue renaming 3-digit numbers. This is challenging concept but the students of Room 17 are beginning to be pros. It has taken a lot of work with manipulatives and working with partners but I believe we have it!! Here is an example of a few of the combinations students could come up with. We will continue to work on this skill daily just to be sure that all students have a firm understanding of it!
375
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Hundreds
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Tens
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Ones
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3
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7
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5
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3
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6
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15
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2
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17
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5
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2
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16
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15
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Along with renaming we continued to work with writing numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded form and comparing 3-digit numbers using <, >, and =.
HOMEWORK
Monday- IXL M.4 Identify a digit up to the hundreds place
Tuesday- IXL M.5 Place value 10’s and 1’s
Wednesday- XL M.6 Place value up to 100
Thursday- IXL M.8 Convert to/from a number tens and ones
Language
We finished our Tree Maps to help us see the different ways to make singular nouns (names one person, place, or thing) into plural nouns (names more than one person, place, or thing). As we make nouns plural, students are learning about the irregular forms of plural nouns, which include changing the “y” to an “i” and add “es” (cherry = cherries), adding “es” (lunch = lunches), and changing the “f” to a “ves” (scarf = scarves). This week we will work with irregular nouns such as child-children, tooth-teeth, goose-geese etc.
Writing
We are hoping to have our “Who Am I?” writings finished by Tuesday. The 2nd grade students have been working on their art piece to go with it. They are drawing their self portraits to go with their writings. Mrs. Bloomfield and I hope to have them hung up in the hallways be the end of the week. Stop by to see how creative your kiddos are!
Projects
Second grade students have been working on our first project--Tribes in Action. During the first 4 weeks of school we worked on learning about the Tribes Agreements--Attentive Listening, Mutual Respect, Appreciations/No Put-Downs, and Right to Pass. Students ended the week with a clay activity that involved Attentive Listening and Mutual Respect. They started out with “magic clay”. After discovering their color, students divided their clay into 3 parts and traded with students that had a different color. With trading completed students mixed clay colors together, ending up the activity with 6 different colors.
This past week students were broken into groups. We will continue this week creating puppets and writing short puppet show scripts that shows each agreement. We will have a firm date for the puppet show this week and will put that in the blog for next week (at this point it will more than likely be September 19th or the 20th at 2:30 pm). Again, look for an exact date and time on next week’s blog.
Loving Learning,
Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Garcia
