It has been another great week in second grade! This week we finished our first math unit on reviewing number and time concepts. Today we took our first math test and I am proud to announce that the class did FANTASTIC! The average score for the class was 90%! I want to thank parents for reviewing the practice test at home with their children :-) We achieve the best results for our students when we work together! Next week, we will continue to review some concepts of time and money as we shift our main focus to addition and subtraction strategies. In literacy this week, we read "Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea" by Cynthia Rylant. While reading we focused on story structure: beginning, middle, and end. We began working in reading groups this week and students worked cooperatively to create beginning, middle, and end posters for their texts. Students also started working on Fall activity centers this week. They played Halloween phonics Bingo, Guess the Scarecrow, and read books about Johnny Appleseed. Our class had a visit this week from Captain R (aka: Mrs. Dempsey)! Captain R led the class in a lesson on r-controlled vowels (Arrr Matey!) in celebration of International Talk Like A Pirate Day on September 19th.
Reading-Rewards: Don't forget to continue logging your reading on Reading-Rewards.com! As a class we are up to 1,648 minutes!! Our Reader of the Week this week was Shamus who read an amazing 84 minutes! I love seeing the variety of books everyone is reading. It seems like soon some students will have enough RR miles saved up to start purchasing class rewards! Keep up the good work everyone! (If for some reason you cannot access the site, then write down what you read, bring it in, and we will log it at school) Reminders:
Have a great weekend! ~Mrs. D
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