Quarter 3 Week 9

                                                                                                             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.  

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

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!

Quarter 3 Week

                                                                                                   February 27, 2017

Happy Monday Bighorns,

Well...we are back to a full work week AND we should be finished with homework sheets for the MOST part!  We will begin the week with telling time!  The second grade standard is to: tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest 5 minutes, differentiating between a.m and p.m.

Last week we focused on Partial Sums and Differences with Renaming a number.  The students did a great job working together and coaching their teammates!  We even held a relay race with addition problems  as we worked together towards ACCURACY not who was the first group finished!  

This has been a gigantic math standard to work on and Miss Garcia and myself are so proud of the students.  They have worked so hard on adding and subtracting numbers within 1,000.  We will test this standard on Monday and then begin time.

Homework for the week of February 27th - March 2nd...

Monday	IXL - Q.1 Match analog clocks and times
Tuesday	IXL - Q.2  Match digital clocks and times
Wednesday	IXL - Q.3 Match analog and digital clocks
Thursday	Q.4 Read clocks: hour and half hour/half past

Language- We are still learning about when and where to use the apostrophe.  We have finished with the apostrophe’s role in contractions

Writing - Our writing work has been very related to our project as students are researching their decades.  The writing involved has been filling in information on their note-takers and writing captions to go with their pictures.

Projects - Students are gathering lots of information on their decade.  As they are learning more about their decade it has been very cool to listen to the connections they are making as they share some of the facts they are learning.

Wishing you a great week as we say hello to March!!

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield

       and

Shannon Garcia

Week 25

                                                                                                    February 21, 2017

Dear Parents,

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.  

This week we are focusing on Partial Sums and Differences.  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

Example:

   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, the tens, and the ones.

1 1 0                                  4.  Add the partial sums--700 + 110 + 13 =823

      1 3   

    8 2 3                 

Partial Differences With Renaming

Example:

    4 6 7  →   400 + 60 + 7    1.  Show the minuend in expanded form.          

-  2 9 8  →   200 + 90 + 8     2.  Show the subtrahend in expanded form.

   2 0 0        200 - 30  - 1 3.  Subtract the hundreds, the tens, and the ones.

   -  3 0                              4.  Add the partial differences--200 - 30 - 1 = 169

  1  7 0                                  5.  Watch out for negative numbers!!

- 1

  1  6 9

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

Tuesday	Worksheet: Partial Sums
Wednesday	Worksheet: Partial Differences
Thursday	Worksheet: Partial Sums and Differences in Word Problems

Language

In language, students have been learning about apostrophes.  We will work with apostrophes in contractions and possessive nouns.  We have started focusing on using apostrophes in contractions.

I am = I’m           do not = don’t        we are = we’re      that is = that’s

Writing/Projects

Students have been working with their partners on their Decade Projects.  This research has been interesting as students explore their decades.  This has been a very labor intensive project so far and part of the project time is overlapping with our writing time.  

Sad News…

As many of you know, the second grade classes have been very fortunate to Miss Darity to teach Zumba for PE every Tuesday.  Last Tuesday was our last Zumba Day.  Below are some pictures from the last Zumba class.  Miss Garcia, myself, and all the second graders appreciate Miss Darity sharing her time and talent with us over the past five months.

   

We are now actively searching for another parent to help with second grade PE on Tuesdays.  If you would like to help please let Miss Garcia or myself know!  

Sincerely,

Anne Bloomfield and Shannon Garcia