Week 22 -- 2/19--2/22

                                                                                                               February 19, 2018

Dear Parents,

Valentine’s Day may be over but Miss Garcia and I are still feeling the love from all the cards, candy,
and gifts that students gave us.  From the bottom of our hearts--THANK YOU!!

Miss Garcia and myself hope that everyone enjoyed the extra long weekend!  It was so nice to have
an extra day but we are ready for another great week in 2nd grade!

Students have continued to work on adding and subtracting with renaming within 1,000.  This past
week students focused on the branch method.  Students picked up on this strategy quickly.  

Math

This week we are focusing on Partial Sums.  The students should be familiar with this
strategy and have applied it previously with addition and subtraction.  Here are some
examples of homework this week.

Partial Sums with Renaming

Examples:

Renaming in the tens place.    3 2 6  → 300 + 20 + 6    1.  Show the first addend in expanded form.          +  4 5 7  → 400 + 50 + 7     2.  Show the second addend in expanded form.   7 0 0      700 +  70 + 13     3.  Add the hundreds, then the tens, and the ones.      7 0                                 4.  Add the partial sums--700 + 70 + 13 =783  +  1 3   7 8 3

Renaming in the hundreds place.    3 8 6  → 300 + 80 + 6    1.  Show the first addend in expanded form.          +  4 5 3  → 400 + 50 + 3     2.  Show the second addend in expanded form.   7 0 0      700 + 130 + 9     3.  Add the hundreds, then the tens, and the ones.   1 3 0                                 4.  Add the partial sums--700 + 130 + 9 =839  +    9   8 3 9

Renaming in the tens and hundreds place. 3 6 6  → 300 + 60 + 6    1.  Show the first addend in expanded form.          +  4 5 7  → 400 + 50 + 7     2.  Show the second addend in expanded form.   7 0 0      700 + 110 + 13     3.  Add the hundreds, then the tens, and the ones.   1 1 0                                    4.  Add the partial sums--700 + 110 + 13 =823  +  1 3   8 2 3

Here is what we will be working on for homework this week:

Tuesday	Worksheet: Partial Sums Renaming in the Tens
Wednesday	Worksheet: Partial Sums Renaming in the Hundreds
Thursday	Worksheet: Partial Sums Renaming in the Tens and Hundreds

Language

In language, students will be increasing their vocabulary by working with synonyms.
 Students will be ordering words by intensity.  For example, angry and livid are synonyms
for the word mad.  If you ordered these synonyms from weakest to strongest, they would be
mad, angry, livid.

Writing

Students are still working on editing and revising their Snow Creature stories.  This narrative
writing assignment has been the longest writing our 2nd graders have written.  Our
teacher/student conferencing is taking a bit longer and has been hard to schedule.  Miss
Garcia and myself are hoping to meet with all students this week.  From the conferencing
that we have completed, we think the wait will be well worth it.  

It looks like it’s going to be another chilly week and students are outside for recess and P.E.
 Please be sure that you child is dressed for the weather with a jacket or sweatshirt.

Reading News from Mrs. Rowlett

Thank you for all the wonderful Valentines!! I truely feel loved. Here are a couple reminders for the up coming weeks.

• Next week 1st and 2nd graders will be taking the MAPS test. We took this test at the beginning of the year. Miss Garcia and I are looking forward to seeing all the great progress the students have made.
• We will not have a spelling test this week due to the short week.

Sincerely,

Shannon Garcia & Mrs. Rowlett