Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Our 2nd Grade Classroom News Friday, January 13th, 2017 Email: thranek@hudson.edu Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Upcoming Events Math Date Event 1/16 No school: MLK Jr. Day 1/20 Yearbook orders due 1/25 No school: Teacher Requested Conferences 1/27 PTO Movie Night 1/31-2/3 Terra Nova/InView testing for 2nd grade Grouping paperclips into tens, hundreds, and one-thousand Measuring with paperclips Counting, reading, writing, adding, and subtracting 3-digit numbers Searching for patterns with missing numbers through 1,000 Unit 5 post-assessment and Unit 6 pre-assessment Began Unit 6: Geometry and Fractions Social Studies: Creating Geography vocabulary books Designing classroom maps Begin studying Masai, the people of Kenya Reminders Writing Personal narrative writing review “Thank you” letters Learning to write about science: Scientists study the world around them, pose questions & hypotheses, conduct experiments, and write about their results in lab reports. Studying a procedural writing mentor text Conducting experiments with ramps and cars and writing about it Sharing scientific ideas and conclusions Reading Getting to know characters Paying attention to what characters do & say, how they respond to challenges/problems, relationships with other characters Different kinds of dialogue Inferring characters’ feelings Recognizing a character’s point of view