Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Our 2nd Grade Classroom News Friday, October 14th, 2016 Email: thranek@hudson.edu Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Upcoming Events Reading Date Event 10/26 Take a Second, Make a Difference Day! 10/26 Evening Parent/Teacher Conferences 10/27 No School: Parent/Teacher Conferences 10/31 Halloween Parade @ 2:45 PM 11/3 Ready, Set, Relax! (no homework) Introduction to reading journals and responses Preparing brief book reviews Launching new unit: non-fiction texts Identifying and searching for non-fiction text features: diagrams, illustrations, photographs, labels, tips, how-to’s, etc. Jotting down prior knowledge before reading non-fiction Growing schema: What did you learn after reading? Sharing new learning with partners Social Studies Identifying continents and oceans Ocean habitats Arctic habitats Writing Launching new unit: non-fiction writing Learning from non-fiction writing experts Setting goals and making plans Editing punctuation, spelling, capitalization Creating “Meet the Author” pages Writing for specific audiences Writing with descriptive words Hooking readers from the start of each chapter Math Using an open number line to add 2-digit numbers within 100 Using various addition strategies: skip jump by 10s, get to a multiple of 10, use a sharing strategy Measuring lengths with Unifix cubes Skip counting by 5s & 10s within 1,000 Representing numbers on a number line Mentally adding 10 to any number Solving 1-step addition story problems