Finally got my iPad all charged up so I can now upload our pics from this week. Hope you all have had a great weekend! - Mrs. D
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This week in literacy we focused on making predictions as we read "My Name is Yoon". It is a story about a young girl trying to adjust to school after her family moves from Korea to America. We also continued to practice identifying main ideas and details of text. Yesterday students made "tables" to symbolize the importance of details and how they support the main idea. Students took a quiz on main ideas this afternoon. I will be scoring them this weekend and they will go home on Monday. We continued to work on subject and predicate this week and even began to combine similar subjects and predicates into one sentence. A new focus of grammar this week was quotation marks. To practice, students used elbow pasta to add quotation marks to sentences written on sentence strips. Our focus in math this week was on more subtraction strategies. We used blocks and part-part-whole mats to help us find missing addends, we played a game using dice to help review fact families, and we used snap cubes to help us explore difference. Today we began working on story problems (word problems) and students did very well. The new Common Core standards really focus on students being able to explain their thinking. While working on story problems today students were asked to finish the sentence "I know I'm right because…" using the strategies we have learned in class. I am very pleased with the results of today's activity and we will continue to practice this skill next week. Reminders/Announcements:
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Have a great weekend! ~Mrs. D P.S. - Pictures of our week will be uploaded later. The battery on my iPad died and I don't have the charger here at school. Check back this weekend! It has been an interesting week in second grade. Students this week were chattier than usual and needed several reminders to focus on the directions of assignments. The highlight of the week was working in the computer lab on Wednesday on our plant science unit. After reviewing plant vocabulary, students logged on to a website called Wordle to create graphic images of the vocabulary words we discussed. Students had a great time experimenting with the site and got a chance to practice their typing skills! I hope to have pictures of the Wordles students created up on our website sometime next week.
All teachers at FMS attended a workshop yesterday about the Common Core (the new national education standards) and how it will change our literacy instruction. I walked away with some great ideas that I hope to be weaving into our curriculum over the next few weeks. One of the most important things we need to work on is to help our students independently discuss and compare texts. Be on the lookout for some suggested reading response questions on our parent/educator blog that you can use at home while reading with your child.
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