Happy Practicing! See how many homophones you can come up with!
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Grammar Time
Since everyone in class loved this homophones video so much, I thought I should post it. Practice it over spring break and we can sing it in class.
Happy Practicing! See how many homophones you can come up with!
Click Here-------> Veggie Tales: School House Polka
Happy Practicing! See how many homophones you can come up with!
Click Here-------> Veggie Tales: School House Polka
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Feb. 25th - March 1st
We had a great week last week! I was so impressed with all of our second grade stars! The show was wonderful and everyone had a fabulous performance.
Looking back:
Reading: We have been having some fun with different activities reviewing story structure. The class seemed to really enjoy our story of the week, 'Chato's Kitchen'. I think there were some surprising twists and turns in the story that led to some great predictions. When you are reading with your second grader at home help them by asking them to summarize their reading. By asking them what happened in the beginning (characters, setting, problem), middle (the twists and turns) and the end (solution to the problem). Practicing this type of retell will help your student in building their comprehension.
In Writing-
The class has combined reading and writing together by working on creating our own Non-Ficition books or 'All About Books' as you may have heard them called at home. The kids were able to chose any topic they knew they had a lot of schema, or background knowledge about already. Using a checklist, everyone is creating their very own book showing that they can use non-fiction features correctly. The books are looking great and we hope to have them mostly finished by the end of the week. We have books from football to playing an instrument.
In Math-
We are almost done with unit 6. On Friday we took a mid-year test to reflect on all the concepts we have learned this year. This is a great way foe me to see what we need to review and where we can extend to some problem solving. We continue to 'pretend' that we are teaching our learned concepts to a younger student. Please ask your second grader to teach you about a math concept at home.
In Science-
Our pea plants are growing more like 'Jack and the Bean Stalk' then pea plants. We will continue to discuss the 'perfect' conditions in which to grow a plant and design an experiment to test out their theories.
In Social Studies-
We began one of my favorite projects (however I think I may say that for every project we do). The class was divided into continent groups. Each group was assigned a continent to research and is doing a nice job starting to take notefacts. It is difficult to work in a team but everyone seems to be learning and trying very hard to listen to all group members.
Our Country Research has also been going well. Everyone has started to write United States facts that match their country research facts. For example, if one student researched China and found that many of the people eat their food using chopsticks the fact they might write down to compare to how we eat in the United States would be that we eat mostly with forks, spoons, and knives.
Looking back:
Reading: We have been having some fun with different activities reviewing story structure. The class seemed to really enjoy our story of the week, 'Chato's Kitchen'. I think there were some surprising twists and turns in the story that led to some great predictions. When you are reading with your second grader at home help them by asking them to summarize their reading. By asking them what happened in the beginning (characters, setting, problem), middle (the twists and turns) and the end (solution to the problem). Practicing this type of retell will help your student in building their comprehension.
In Writing-
The class has combined reading and writing together by working on creating our own Non-Ficition books or 'All About Books' as you may have heard them called at home. The kids were able to chose any topic they knew they had a lot of schema, or background knowledge about already. Using a checklist, everyone is creating their very own book showing that they can use non-fiction features correctly. The books are looking great and we hope to have them mostly finished by the end of the week. We have books from football to playing an instrument.
In Math-
We are almost done with unit 6. On Friday we took a mid-year test to reflect on all the concepts we have learned this year. This is a great way foe me to see what we need to review and where we can extend to some problem solving. We continue to 'pretend' that we are teaching our learned concepts to a younger student. Please ask your second grader to teach you about a math concept at home.
In Science-
Our pea plants are growing more like 'Jack and the Bean Stalk' then pea plants. We will continue to discuss the 'perfect' conditions in which to grow a plant and design an experiment to test out their theories.
In Social Studies-
We began one of my favorite projects (however I think I may say that for every project we do). The class was divided into continent groups. Each group was assigned a continent to research and is doing a nice job starting to take notefacts. It is difficult to work in a team but everyone seems to be learning and trying very hard to listen to all group members.
Our Country Research has also been going well. Everyone has started to write United States facts that match their country research facts. For example, if one student researched China and found that many of the people eat their food using chopsticks the fact they might write down to compare to how we eat in the United States would be that we eat mostly with forks, spoons, and knives.
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