The last couple of months of school are upon us! You can feel the excitment in the second grade for sure.
We have been fine-tuning our skills in 3 digit addition and subtraction, in addition to more work on place value. We should get to an introduction on multiplication before the year is completed.
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White is being read aloud at the end of each day. Each child has a copy of the book and is following along with me as I read aloud to the class. Response questions are answered in their own journals.
Stories are being proofread and will soon be presented on , "The Night I Followed the Dog" and they are very entertaining.
Music concert will be presented April 23 for grades K-4. The students have been hard at work learning lines and songs. Plan to attend and enjoy the entertainment.
Our field trip will be to the Topeka Zoo on May 4 and Play Day will be May 11. Lots of fun to look forward to before our last day of school!!
Friday, April 13, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
March
March has been another busy month. We completed our biographies and presented them, so they are now hanging on our bulletin board for your to read during Parent-Teacher Conferences. The next writing project we tackled was writing persuasive text. Each student tried to convince the leprechaun they deserved his pot of gold. Many convincing ideas were dreamed up, and they all wrote delightful paragraphs! Ms. McDaniel listened to their oral presentations and decided that Justin Mullins gave the most persuasive talk. He was awarded a green hat full of gold coins and necklaces to share with the class.
We are almost finished with another read-aloud. The Chocolate Touch has been a very entertaining story, and they have done an excellent job writing in their chocolate kiss journals. Our next novel will be Charlotte's Web. If anyone has the book at home we would appreciate you sending it to school with your child so that everyone can have their own copy to follow along as I read aloud.
We just completed units on time and probability in math. Next we move to comparing numbers to 1,000. We will be reviewing place value again and learning how to write numbers in both standard and expanded form.
After break we will complete our Science Unit on Exploring Earth's Surface and then test their knowledge of information covered. Then we will begin a new Social Studies unit studying producers and consumers.
As you can see, we are still hard at work in the second grade, even though there are only 8 weeks of school left!
We are almost finished with another read-aloud. The Chocolate Touch has been a very entertaining story, and they have done an excellent job writing in their chocolate kiss journals. Our next novel will be Charlotte's Web. If anyone has the book at home we would appreciate you sending it to school with your child so that everyone can have their own copy to follow along as I read aloud.
We just completed units on time and probability in math. Next we move to comparing numbers to 1,000. We will be reviewing place value again and learning how to write numbers in both standard and expanded form.
After break we will complete our Science Unit on Exploring Earth's Surface and then test their knowledge of information covered. Then we will begin a new Social Studies unit studying producers and consumers.
As you can see, we are still hard at work in the second grade, even though there are only 8 weeks of school left!
Friday, February 10, 2012
February Activities
February is off to a great start in the second grade. The students became real authors, as they finally were able to take home the book they each wrote and illustrated. We studied the books of Laura Numeroff: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, to name a few. Then each student wrote their own version. There is also a copy of each book here at school to share.
We are also finally completing our biographies of famous people in history. We have begun to present them to the class, so that we get to hear and learn about 16 famous people.
We have been working hard on main idea in reading, and using context clues to identify unknown words. In math we have been working on measurement, in lenght, weight, and capacity.
We have been studying early American history in Social Studies and tieing that knowledge in with our read aloud of Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
We are also finally completing our biographies of famous people in history. We have begun to present them to the class, so that we get to hear and learn about 16 famous people.
We have been working hard on main idea in reading, and using context clues to identify unknown words. In math we have been working on measurement, in lenght, weight, and capacity.
We have been studying early American history in Social Studies and tieing that knowledge in with our read aloud of Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Friday, January 27, 2012
January News
We celebrated our 100th day of school this week, but that does not mean our work is done! We are still working hard.
We are still working on writing our biographies of a famous person. This is a slow process since it is probably the first time they have attempted to write a research paper. We work on them everyday, so they should be completed and ready for presentation soon. While working on our papers we continue our review of sentence structure, and focus on our parts of speech with discussion of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
In math we just completed a unit on shapes, with discussion on symmetry. New vocabulary words like rotation, translation, and reflection were learned. Our next unit will be on measurement with standard and non-standard units. Soon we will break out the rulers and measure in inches and centimeters.
Next week will be the Science test over living things and their environment. Then we will move on to Social Studies where we will learn about some early American History, with discussion of the Revolutionary War.
We are still reading Little House on the Prairie and completing our reader response journals as we read. Thank you to those of you who sent a copy of the book with your student.
We are still working on writing our biographies of a famous person. This is a slow process since it is probably the first time they have attempted to write a research paper. We work on them everyday, so they should be completed and ready for presentation soon. While working on our papers we continue our review of sentence structure, and focus on our parts of speech with discussion of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
In math we just completed a unit on shapes, with discussion on symmetry. New vocabulary words like rotation, translation, and reflection were learned. Our next unit will be on measurement with standard and non-standard units. Soon we will break out the rulers and measure in inches and centimeters.
Next week will be the Science test over living things and their environment. Then we will move on to Social Studies where we will learn about some early American History, with discussion of the Revolutionary War.
We are still reading Little House on the Prairie and completing our reader response journals as we read. Thank you to those of you who sent a copy of the book with your student.
Friday, December 9, 2011
December Activities
December is off to a busy start! In math we have moved to a goal of completing 100 addition facts in 4 minutes. We are also doing two digit addition and subtraction. We introduced carrying and regrouping which was challenging for us, but in the end we were successful! Reading lessons involved working with story elements with emphasis on identifying problem and solution. We also worked on writing the plot of a narrative text story and identifying the main idea in expository text. We are currently working on writing a narrative text story of fantasy. Our inspiration was the story "Imogene's Anters" by David Small. Instead of antlers, we are writing about having a shiny nose. In Social Studies we are beginning a study of Natural Resources. We began reading Little House on the Prairie during read aloud and students are learning about life on the prairie long ago. These are just some of the activities in the second grade!
Friday, November 18, 2011
Read Aloud in the Second Grade
One of the activities that I especially enjoy in the second grade is read aloud. We will soon finish the book Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary. Our next novel will be Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. If you have a copy of this book we would appreciate you sending it to school with your child so that he or she can follow along while we read aloud. We do journal activities associated with each chapter, so if each child has their own copy of the book it is helpful. I look forward to sharing this book with your child. I hope they enjoy it as much as I do!
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Fall Activities
Our Class has been hard at work this month enjoying the books by author Laura Numeroff. After reading, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If you Give a Moose a Muffin, If you Give a Cat a Cupake, and other books by the author the students were encouraged to write their own stories complete with illustrations. We have discovered many talented authors and illustrators in the second grade! Some of our titles are If You Give an Elephant a Peanut and If You Take a Rabbit to the Race Track. They have worked hard on their tales and have made them very entertaining as well as learning about cause and efffect text structure.
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