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Our 2nd Grade
Classroom News
Friday, January 13th, 2017
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