Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Our 2nd Grade Classroom News Friday, December 2nd, 2016 Email: thranek@hudson.edu Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Upcoming Events Math Date Event 12/3 Community First Holiday Gift Shoppe @ HMS 10AM-1PM 12/21 Polar Express Day 12/21 End of 2nd quarter 12/22-1/3 Winter Break 1/27 PTO Movie Night Please join me in welcoming Evelyn Watson, our new student & friend in A-7! Solving 1- and 2-step addition and subtraction story problems created by classmates Unit 3 post-assessment Introducing 1,000 (pre-assessment) Estimating and counting 1,000 sticks, bundling in 10s and 100s Place value- 1s, 10s, 100s Ordering numbers Comparing pairs of 3-digit numbers (greater than, less than, equal to) Add with sums to 1,000 Social Studies Thanksgiving books and projects Geography: landforms study through… PebbleGo Library books Vocabulary booklet Landform charades Created holiday cards for men and women serving in Kosovo Reminders Writing Using “tiny topics notebooks” to find ideas for poems Searching for moments/topics with strong feelings Editing poetry Using precise words/language in poems Experimenting with repetition in words, lines, sounds, and images Using comparisons Revising poetry Reading Independent reading and comprehension Writing in response journals Mid-year reading assessments Understanding compound words to help determine meaning Using context clues to determine meaning