Hello Core 2 Families,
I loved getting to spend time with some of you during Tuesday’s SLCs! I will get a chance to see the rest of you on Thursday. Thank you for being so thoughtful with your children, I really am so inspired by the care and attention that you give to your children. This week in reading we have continued to do our word sorts and leveled reading. I am still getting through all of the student’s DRAs (reading assessments) and will regroup them into different groups once I have that info. In reading we have also been reading articles on Susan B Anthony, with a focus on Women’s Voting Rights. We are building a timeline of all of the important dates in voting rights history along our stretch of windows. If you have never explored the resource NewsELA, it is definitely worth your time, especially if you have a more advanced reader. NewsELA is a resource that allows you to choose from different articles and then change the reading level of the article to make it appropriate for your student. It only goes down to 2nd grade, but it could be helpful for some families: https://newsela.com/ Timelines are a great way to help students understand history. It can be a really fun activity to have students create timelines of their own lives. Here is one of many resources on the internet to help kids create timelines: http://kidsactivities.about.com/od/LifeSkills/ss/My-Life-Timeline-Activity-For-Kids.htm We have also started working on our Government Lap books. Lap books are a creative way for students to record what they understand about a particular subject, in this case the government. These will be used to support students in sharing all that they have learned about the government at Exhibition. In math we have continued to work on addition and subtraction word problems and number talks. I have been talking to a number of second grade parents about the fact that one of the main things that 2nd graders are working on in math is subtraction with regrouping (ex: 82-47=). One of the best things that you can do to support kids who are still trying to conceptualize what is happening with place value in this type of problem is to offer them base ten blocks to work with. If you do not have base ten blocks at home, you can find templates on line: https://www.havefunteaching.com/tools/paper-cut-outs/printable-base-10-blocks/ I would highly recommend having these out for kids to access when they are doing problems with larger numbers, and especially when doing subtraction with regrouping problems. Important Info: Survey Please take a few minutes to do the Fall Da Vinci parent survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N9WFYN7 Work Journal #1 Due- Tuesday Oct 11 The first work journal period ends Friday, October 7. Work Journal #1 is due Tuesday, October 11, by 4:15 pm (NOT 4:30!). If your child has after-school enrichment that day, please still make sure to turn in your work journal on time. Please use the checklist and reflection sheets found under the “Work Journals” tab on my Digital Portfolio. Please check them carefully, it would be a huge help! Comments are closed.
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