What a week it has been in second grade! A blizzard, science fair, and Valentines day. Oh my! We visited the Science Fair this week and the students were extremely impressed with everyone's project. I think the one that caught our attention the most was the robot that solved a Rubik's cube! Students participated in a give-one-get one activity after the science fair where they shared one fact and received one fact with classmates. In literacy this week we began to switch over to the Common Core (new National standards). Our weekly theme was about helping planet Earth. Students focused on non-fiction text from our Treasures books and Scholastic Newsletters. Each week students will be receiving a list of "I can" statements. These correlate with the Common Core standards for second grade and will be different each week. The work students complete towards mastering each "I can" will be stapled to the statements and sent home at the end of the unit. I have attached the file with this week's "I can" statements so you can see what our classroom focus is and will continue to be next week. In math this week we began working more in depth on money concepts. Today students were given a challenge and asked to use a certain number of coins to show an amount. Students worked with play money and did a great job problem solving. Our classroom saw some physical changes this week! Due to the social nature of our students I decided to swap out some of our tables for desks. I am hoping that the desks will allow students to focus more on their own work and not on what others are doing around them. We also now have a "quiet corner" in the classroom. It looks something like a cubicle and provides students the opportunity to focus intently on their work. Next time you're in the building stop by and check it out!
Our week in Pictures!
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My first week back to work is officially over and we are off to a good start! Ms. Vocatura was in with us on Monday to help our class through the transition. It's great to see all the progress the class has made in the past three months! The students worked well this week though they have been very social which I'm assuming is due to the transition. My hope is that by next week the class will be used to having me back at the helm and things will calm down. In literacy this week we read a non-fiction selection about how animals bathe. Students worked on comparing and contrasting and used adjectives to describe the animals. We connected our literacy theme to our new science unit on living and non-living things during a classroom discussion. Next week we will be exploring the relationship between cause and effect as we continue to read about animals. We will also continue to work with r-controlled vowels in spelling.
Information on the Read to Ride program went home this week. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to work on their reading and provides great incentive. Please remind your child to bring in their Read to Ride reading logs weekly to be entered into the contest to win the bike. Reading logs turned in one week late will not be accepted. Remember the more consistent your child is with their reading log the more chances he/she will have at winning the bike. (These reading logs are separate and in addition to our class weekly reading requirement) I hope everyone has a restful and enjoyable weekend! See you next week :-)
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