Next week is Red Ribbon Week and Spirit Week at Magruder. Do you remember this from when you were in school? It is a week to celebrate making safe and healthy choices. It is also a Spirit week for our school. This week will also be a really busy week in Room 110 with a Skype session on Monday and Pumpkinmania on Friday.
Here is what we are focusing on in our curriculum this week:
Language Arts: Character Analysis and Visualizing, Writing a Personal Narrative
Math: Patterns on a 100 Chart and Skip Counting
Science: Magnet Review and Test (The test is on Tuesday)
Social Studies: Native Americans with a focus on the Powhatans
Fun this week (I just had to add this in):
Monday-Red Day, Skype Session with Mohansic Elementary in New York (We will be doing our monster match activity with them)
Tuesday-Crazy Sock Day
Wednesday-Pajama Day
Thursday-Wacky Tacky Day
Friday-Team Spirit Day
*On Friday afternoon, we will be having pumpkin mania. I need volunteers and pumpkins. Please let me know if you are able to help.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Week 7
It's hard to believe it's week 7 of the school year. Time is flying (especially the time between now and my due date on November 14th)! Here's what we are learning about this week in Room 110.
Language Arts: In Reading, we will start a new unit on Character analysis and making text
connections. In Writing, we are still working on personal narratives and will look at adding details to our writing. The students will draw and write a describing paragraph about a monster. I will then pick 3 of those paragraphs and those students will read their paragraphs to a class in New York via Skype next Monday. Those students will try to draw their monster by listening to the paragraph. We will also be listening to 3 students from New York and trying to draw their monsters. This should be pretty fun!
Science: Our magnet unit is in full swing. The students are brainstorming how to improve our class with magnets and are doing lots of fun inquiry experiments. We also have a video conference session with a real scientist on Tuesday. I meant to do this earlier this month, but they did not have any sessions until now. It will be neat for students to be able to hear a real scientist talk about their job.
Math: We are finished with story problems and are on to patterns this week. We will learn about patterns for the next two weeks.
Notes: I am sending home parent-teacher conference forms tomorrow. I hope to have all my conferences next or early the first week in November, so I can get them all in before I leave for maternity leave. I am also looking for volunteers for Pumpkinmania on October 30. Please mark your calendars.
Language Arts: In Reading, we will start a new unit on Character analysis and making text
connections. In Writing, we are still working on personal narratives and will look at adding details to our writing. The students will draw and write a describing paragraph about a monster. I will then pick 3 of those paragraphs and those students will read their paragraphs to a class in New York via Skype next Monday. Those students will try to draw their monster by listening to the paragraph. We will also be listening to 3 students from New York and trying to draw their monsters. This should be pretty fun!
Science: Our magnet unit is in full swing. The students are brainstorming how to improve our class with magnets and are doing lots of fun inquiry experiments. We also have a video conference session with a real scientist on Tuesday. I meant to do this earlier this month, but they did not have any sessions until now. It will be neat for students to be able to hear a real scientist talk about their job.
Math: We are finished with story problems and are on to patterns this week. We will learn about patterns for the next two weeks.
Notes: I am sending home parent-teacher conference forms tomorrow. I hope to have all my conferences next or early the first week in November, so I can get them all in before I leave for maternity leave. I am also looking for volunteers for Pumpkinmania on October 30. Please mark your calendars.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Welcome Fall!
I hope you were able to get out and enjoy this weekend's weather. It was beautiful!
Here's what's going on this week in 2nd grade:
Language Arts: We are working on fluency this week. Students will have the chance to partner read to help with this skill. We will work on varying speed when reading. In writing, students will continue to learn about how to write a personal narrative and will learn about run-on sentences.
Math: We will continue our unit on story problems. This week's focus is on subtraction story problems. Look for a test on story problems next Monday.
Social Studies: We will begin our unit on communities of the past. Students this week will have a review of the types of communities and will start looking at how Virginia has changed from the past. Our focus question for the unit will be on how to let others know that our community is a great place to visit. There is no quiz for Social Studies this week.
Notes: Please remember to keep checking ASPEN for up to date grades. Also, please continue to encourage your child to be responsible for checking and turning in their work. This is skill I am working on with them in class and your encouragement goes a long way.
Here's what's going on this week in 2nd grade:
Language Arts: We are working on fluency this week. Students will have the chance to partner read to help with this skill. We will work on varying speed when reading. In writing, students will continue to learn about how to write a personal narrative and will learn about run-on sentences.
Math: We will continue our unit on story problems. This week's focus is on subtraction story problems. Look for a test on story problems next Monday.
Social Studies: We will begin our unit on communities of the past. Students this week will have a review of the types of communities and will start looking at how Virginia has changed from the past. Our focus question for the unit will be on how to let others know that our community is a great place to visit. There is no quiz for Social Studies this week.
Notes: Please remember to keep checking ASPEN for up to date grades. Also, please continue to encourage your child to be responsible for checking and turning in their work. This is skill I am working on with them in class and your encouragement goes a long way.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Scientific Inquiry
We learned about the difference between data and observations last week. Here's an example of an experiment when took lots of data and had lots of fun. Check out the marshmallow shooter experiment:
A Rainy Week Again?
Hopefully, we will be seeing the sun this week! We did need the rain, but I have some gardening planned this week and hope we can get out to the soggy garden.
Here's what we're learning about this week:
Language Arts: It's week 2 of main idea and details. I will officially start guided reading groups this week. The focus in groups will be on main idea and detail. We will also go over good test taking strategies. In writing, the focus will be on writing a personal narrative and editing.
Math: This week's focus skill is story problems. Students will be learning about different strategies for solving story problems and missing addends again. We will also continue to review the concept of equality and will have a test on Friday on computation.
Science: We will wrap up our unit on Scientific inquiry on Thursday. There will be a quick quiz on vocabulary for Scientific method terms. There will be no review sheet for the quiz, as this is a short assessment and we will be having a review in class on Wednesday. The students will be determining how to best fix our school's garden and will be planting our fall garden on Thursday and Friday. You may send in gardening gloves if desired.
Notes: Thanks to all who showed up for Back to School Night. If you couldn't make it, I look forward to meeting with you at the end of the month for parent-teacher conferences.
Here's what we're learning about this week:
Language Arts: It's week 2 of main idea and details. I will officially start guided reading groups this week. The focus in groups will be on main idea and detail. We will also go over good test taking strategies. In writing, the focus will be on writing a personal narrative and editing.
Math: This week's focus skill is story problems. Students will be learning about different strategies for solving story problems and missing addends again. We will also continue to review the concept of equality and will have a test on Friday on computation.
Science: We will wrap up our unit on Scientific inquiry on Thursday. There will be a quick quiz on vocabulary for Scientific method terms. There will be no review sheet for the quiz, as this is a short assessment and we will be having a review in class on Wednesday. The students will be determining how to best fix our school's garden and will be planting our fall garden on Thursday and Friday. You may send in gardening gloves if desired.
Notes: Thanks to all who showed up for Back to School Night. If you couldn't make it, I look forward to meeting with you at the end of the month for parent-teacher conferences.
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