Quarter 2 week 2

Happy Halloween From the Oasis Academy

It is always a fun time at Oasis Academy when Halloween comes around because the kids get to wear costumes to school instead of their uniforms. Monday will be a fun day of learning as well as doing fun activities at our party. Your child will be meeting in class for reading and math in the morning. Please remember to wear your costume and if if you choose NOT to then you must wear your uniform to school.

The Scholastic Book Fair also begins Monday.  The book fair is set up the dungeon and is very successful due the the volunteer work of our many dedicated parents!  Stop by and check out the book fair.  Family Night is Wednesday evening from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Both second grade classes will visit the Book Fair on Tuesday.  Students may bring money to purchase books or they may browse and make a “Wish List” to share at home and shop later in the week.  Family Night at the Book Fair will be Wednesday, November 2nd from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Hopefully you’ll be able to visit and join the fun.

Math

Students have been using the strategies that we learned when adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers (open number line, partial sums and differences, arrow method, and branching) and applying them to 3-digit numbers.  Last week we focused on partial sums and differences to add and subtract 3-digit numbers.  This week we will finish up by using the open number line and arrow methods to add and subtract 3-digit numbers.  We are so proud of how well students are doing with this math work!!

Here's the homework schedule for this week...

Monday	No Homework-Happy Halloween
Tuesday	Worksheet--Open Number Line 3-Digit Addition and Subtraction
Wednesday	Worksheet--Arrow Method 3-Digit Addition
Thursday	Worksheet--Arrow Method 3-Digit Subtraction

Language

We will finish up our work with collective nouns this week.  Students have done a great job with their slides that have been made into a slide show.  After working on some “Halloween” collective nouns, students will make a mini book.  This standard will be assessed this week!

Did you know a group of Jack O’ Lanterns is called a leer?

Writing

Our 2nd grade writers are putting on their finishing touches on their “Absolutely True” stories.  Students that were finished last week, used their Chrome Books to write clues about their Halloween costume.  Students wrote a few clues and inserted an image.

Projects

Our work with matter continues.  We looked at different liquids to see how they fill up containers.  Students noticed that some liquids poured fast (water) and other liquids poured slow (Karo syrup).  Students also learned about molecules and how they look in solids, gases, and liquids.

Parent Conferences begin on Friday and continue into the following week.  I am looking forward to meeting with everyone!  If you have not signed up for a conference please do so, there are a variety of days and times left!  We want to visit with every family!

Here’s some information from Mrs. Rowlett…

Happy Halloween. Due to Trick or Treating on Monday evening we will not have assigned reading homework. Homework will resume on Tuesday. Have a great night of fun!!

Have a great week!

Miss Garica and Mrs. Rowlett

Quarter 2 week 1 - October 24,2016

                                    

                                                                                                    

October 24, 2016

Dear Second Grade Families,

The first quarter is complete and we are onto the second quarter.  This year is flying by.

Before we write about last week, Miss Garcia and I want to mention some important events coming up in the next few weeks...  

A new quarter means it’s time…

... to buy pizza coupons (pay online through the email that was sent earlier or the school website).

...pay to wear non-uniform socks (students can bring their dollar to office).

Halloween

First of all, Halloween will be celebrated on Monday, October 31st.  Students will be allowed to wear their Halloween Costume and we will enjoy a Halloween Party in the afternoon (2:00 - 3:00).  Our Room Mothers, Cammi Whitaker(Room 17) and Mrs. Simper/Mrs. Pinson (Room 3) will be organizing our parties and will contact parents for help.

Bookfair

The Book Fair will be coming to Oasis Academy the week of October 31st.

Miss Garcia’s class will be visiting the Book Fair on November 1st from 1:45- 2:00 PM

This is an opportunity for students to check out the Book Fair.  During this time they will have the chance to browse, make a "wish list", and make a purchase if they have money.  

Parent Te

Parent Teacher Conferences will start on Friday, November 4th and continue into the following week.  This will be a very busy and exciting week, I am looking forward to meeting with you to discuss your child's academic and social progress.  If you have not signed up for a conference please do so!!  You should have received an email from a web site called Sign up Genius to sign up for a conference.  If you have not received the link please contact Miss Garcia or myself so that we can resend the link and you can get scheduled.

Now here's what we did last week...

Math

In Math, we continued to work on adding and subtracting within 1,000 without renaming.  Students have been using 3 different strategies (open number line, partial sum, partial difference, and branch addition and subtraction.  Students have really gotten quite proficient using the different strategies.   We will continue to work with these strategies to add and subtract 3-digit numbers through this week.  Miss Garcia and myself realize that we are spending a great deal of time on this standard, but the foundation that we are working on is very important to build.

Here is our homework for next week.

Monday	2 digit arrow method: Addition Worksheet
Tuesday	2 digit arrow method: Subtraction Worksheet
Wednesday	3 digit, partial sums without renaming Worksheet
Thursday	3 digit, partial differences without renaming Worksheet

Projects

The scientists in second grade were busy exploring more about matter.  We are busy building our scientific vocabulary.  Students are using a vocabulary strategy called “break down vocabulary” to learn our “scientific vocabulary”.  The week before vacation we worked on the following vocabulary- matter and solid. This week we will add the vocabulary words liquid, gas, and molecules.  Our scientist will also start using the “scientific method” to explore matter!

Language

Before vacation we worked on Collective Nouns.  Collective nouns name a group.  Here are some examples…

….a class of students

...a deck of cards

...a flight of butterflies

All students have picked a collective noun that they will be creating a google slide that contains the collective noun, a sentence with the collective noun, and an image.  This slides will be put together into a Collective Noun Slideshow.

Writing

Our "Absolutely True" stories are written.  Students are working on self editing and revising.  All students will conference with me to continue the editing and revising process.  The “Absolutely True” stories will be completed this week.  They will be put on the bulletin board outside the second grade classrooms this week and will be ready for you to enjoy when you come in for conferences next week.  

Enjoy your week and I look forward to meeting with you all very soon!!

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield

and

Shannon Garcia

Week 9 October 10- 13

Hello Second Grade Families,

Thank you to all the families that came and watched our puppet show. The students worked hard preparing them and had a great time preforming them for you!!!

We will be moving on to our next big project which is matter. Last week we took a walk around Venturacci park to look for the different forms of matter. This will be another fun project for the second graders.

Homework Monday - Wednesday will be homework worksheets --

No Homework on Thursday -- Enjoy Fall Break (school will resume on 10/24)

Miss Garcia

A Note from Mrs. Rowlett

All second graders have completed their second week of spelling tests.  Spelling words are introduced on Monday of each week, a list is sent home in your child's binder. 2nd graders practice these words during Daily 5. Reversals do count as a wrong answers.

Hopefully your child has been talking to you about the various syllable types that we have been learning about in class.  We have learned 6 of the 7 syllable types.  This week we are focusing on breaking words into syllables and identifying the open, closed, and vowel-consonant-e syllable types. Please continue to have your child read aloud to you nightly to help them improve their reading fluency.  Students will also be assessed on reading fluency each week.  They need to be able to read 100 words per minute by the end of 2nd grade.

This week I will be completing report card assessments as the end of the quarter is at the end of the week.  Your child may not have a guided reading book but may be choosing books from our classroom library to take home to read each night.  Please sign their reading log each night this week so that I know that they are taking the time to practice their reading at home.

Happy reading,

Mrs. Rowlett

Week 8

October is here!!

                                                                                           October 3, 2016

Dear Parents,

How can it be October already?  These months are just flying by, before we know it students will be writing the date using 2017!!

Just a quick reminder to make sure to label your kiddo’s jackets and sweatshirts!  Some parents are putting brightly colored ribbons on their child’s zip up hoodie.  This has proven a good way to reunite students with their hoodies.  The lost and found is starting to pile up.  If your child is missing something it’s worth checking it out.  

Math

In math we are beginning our journey into adding and subtracting 2, 2-digit numbers within 100 without renaming.  Second grade students will be learning many different strategies within the next few weeks.  Last week our focus was using the Branch Method of addition and subtraction.  Students really did a great job working through the process of decomposing the tens and ones and were very successful with the Branch Method.

This week students will be introduced to the Open Number Line.  Again, it is really about being able to decompose the tens and ones place of a number and use a number line to add or subtract.  While it is very different from the way that Miss Garcia and myself (and possibly you too!) learned to add and subtract multi-digit numbers, it will deepen your child’s understanding of adding and subtracting larger numbers.

Here is an example of Open Number Line.  The equations is 52 + 31 = _______.

Start at 52.  Decompose 31 into 3 groups of 10 and 1 group of 1.  Add filling in the number line as you go.

52 + 10 = 62, 62 + 10 = 72, 72 + 10 = 82, and then 82 + 1 = 83

          + 10                  +10                 +10             +1

   52                  62                   72                  82          83

Here's the homework for this week.

Mon.  Worksheet: Branch Subtraction

Tues. Worksheet - Open Number Line addition

Wed.  Worksheet - Open Number Line subtraction

Thurs. Worksheet - Word Problem: solve with Open Number Line

Language

In Language, we continue to learn about verbs.  We created a circle map that included many verbs.   We also discussed the present and past tense of verbs, and used these tenses to interactively write a Tree Map.  They used present and past tense verbs in their writing.  Second graders are learning that there are irregular verbs that in order to form the past tense you may not just add “ed” but change the spelling of the word.

Present Tense                           Past Tense

We catch the fly ball.                We caught the fly ball.

Writing

After reading Gooney Bird Greene, the students decided to write their own “Absolutely True Stories.”  We introduced to the students that a good story has a beginning, middle, end and good writers always add details and descriptions to improve their 2nd grade writing.  Students have picked their topics and they are excited to begin to write their own “Absolutely True Stories”.

Projects

We are ready to perform!  Your second grade students will perform their TRIBES presentation On Tuesday, October 4th at 3:15 PM.  Each second grade class will perform in their own classroom.  We hope you will be able to come!  The total time for all 4 puppet shows will be approximately 20 minutes!

Our next project will be in the area of science.  The second graders will be studying Matter.  Here is our Driving Question: How can we, as Scientists, use the scientific method by studying Matter?

Have a wonderful week!

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield

and

Miss Garcia

You are Cordially Invited to:

Ms. Manse’s 2nd Grade Musical Performance

Starring: Miss Garcia’s 2nd Grade Class

Date: Monday, October 10th

Time: 3:15 - 4:00 p.m.

Where: High School Music Room

Emcees: Gabriel Keener & Emma Lewis

National Anthem: Class

Pledge of Allegiance: Wesley Thompson

Opening Song: America The Beautiful - introduced by Sutton Yost

Piano Playing: Tommy, Cristian, Zander, Laurel

Rhythm & Melody Instrument Chorus - introduced by Kaylee Craig

Closing Songs -  introduced by Macey Stokes

• Listen to the Drum
• Russian Folk Song
• Lets Boogie!
• Do-Re-Mi

Closing Remarks: Miss Garcia