March 6, 2017
Dear Bighorn Parents,
This week marks the end of the 3rd quarter of school!! With the end of the quarter comes third quarter Parent/Teacher Conferences, the primary day for conferences is Friday, March 31st. You will be receiving a Sign-Up Genius notification before spring break. Mrs. Bloomfield and myself are looking forward to meeting with all our 2nd grade families!!
Math
Math has been all about telling time. Students have been working with analog and digital times. We have been practicing showing times to the nearest minutes and saying the times a variety of ways.
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This time can be said the following ways…
...55 minutes past 1
...55 minutes after 1
...one fifty-five
...5 minutes before two
...5 minutes until two
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This week students will continue working with time on Monday and assess on Tuesday.
We will finish the week in math working on word problems. Out of the 26 standards for math there are 3 standards that involve word problems. Those standards involve word problems that have 2 steps and/or that deal with numbers within 100, use money, and measurement. Since all the prerequisite standards have been taught and our work has been extensive on word problems throughout the 2nd and 3rd quarters, students will continue to work on word problems this week and beyond.
Here's the homework for the week...
Monday IXL Q.7 A.M. or P.M.
Tuesday IXL P.14 Add and Subtract Money up to $1.
Wednesday IXL G. 14 Add Three 2-digit Numbers in Word Problems
Thursday IXL G. 15 Add Four or More Numbers Up to 2 Digits
Language
Our time in Language was spent finishing up our work with apostrophes within contractions and possessive nouns.
This week students will work on expanding and rearranging sentences to make them stronger.
Writing/Projects
We have been so thankful for our 5th grade friends who have been helping us with our Timeline Projects. This has been a gigantic undertaking but students are learning and making connections. As students are finishing the research phase and moving onto the creation of the end product section students, we will be very busy putting together our tri-fold boards and practicing presenting the information about our decade.
Special Event
Speaking of projects....Second Graders will be presenting their Timeline Projects on Thursday, March 16th from 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. We hope you can join us for a stroll through the twentieth century one decade at a time.
Basketball has barely ended and softball, baseball, and lacrosse practices have begun. Next weekend (Sunday, March 12th) it will be time to spring forward by setting our clocks ahead by 1 hour. Busy, busy times, remember not to get caught up in the rush!
