IMPORTANT DATES:
READING:
I am still looking for TWO parent volunteers to help out in the classroom once a week to work directly with our 2nd graders. I am hoping to have a volunteer help students with their reading fluency and math facts on Monday and/or Wednesday morning (9:00-9:40). Please let me know if you are interested! A brief job description is posted below.
October 24: Holiday Posters Due
October 26: Picture Retake Day and BPC Skating Party
Time: 6-8pm
Cost: $5 admission, $1 skate rental
Location: Tarry Hall Roller Rin
Grandville, MI 49418
October 31: Classroom Halloween Party 9:30-10:30
November 3: Early Release/Dismissal at 12:15
November 8 & 14: Parent-Teacher Conferences
November 28: Christmas Program
Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held Wednesday, Nov. 8 and Tuesday, Nov. 14. We are just about finished getting everyone schedule. A form will come home on Monday letting you know your time and day!
I am still looking for TWO parent volunteers to help out in the classroom once a week to work directly with our 2nd graders. I am hoping to have a volunteer help students with their reading fluency and math facts on Monday and/or Wednesday morning (9:00-9:40). Please let me know if you are interested! A brief job description is posted below.
Reading: You will be working with students one-on-one as they read 12 different sentences. These sentences are called "fluency strips". The purpose of these sentences is to help build up blending skills with simple 3-4 letter words as well as high frequency words. In addition to this, the sentences are short and easily decodable to support fluency practice.
Math: You will be working with students one-on-one as they practice an individualized list of addition and subtraction facts. The purpose of these facts is NOT to have students simply memorize the facts but to strengthen their number sense and provide strategies for solving each fact efficiently.
Math: You will be working with students one-on-one as they practice an individualized list of addition and subtraction facts. The purpose of these facts is NOT to have students simply memorize the facts but to strengthen their number sense and provide strategies for solving each fact efficiently.
Our main focus as readers this week was to learn more about the characters. We read to determine what the character really wanted or needed. We then made predictions about what the character would do to solve the problem. Second graders learned that we can grow as readers when we confirm and even change our predictions. Next week we will pay close attention to how the characters act and feel. We will better understand the book when we can understand what the character is going through.
WRITING:
We began to plan our first personal narrative story in this unit as we study authors as mentors. As writers, we know it is very helpful to plan our stories in MANY ways before writing. We compared the processes of planning our stories to the practice we do in a sport before the big game. In second grade, we are learning to plan our stories by...
playing the small moment in our minds like a movie
planning it across our fingers (making sure it has a beginning, middle, and end)
talking it out with a parnter
sketching it across five pages
tracing the lines while thinking of the exact words that will go on each page.
Next week we will take our thought out plans and begin drafting our personal narratives.
MATH:
We will continue to work through word problems next week. We will focus on how to think like mathematicians to solve comparison word problems as well as 2-step word problems. Comparison word problems and 2-step word problems are the most challenging word problems we will face all year. We are learning that it is so important to give help to others when needed and ask for help when needed. The more we can talk through these problems with each other to fully understand them the more likely we are to solve them accurately and efficiently.
GROWTH MINDSET:
I can CHANGE my MINDSET with my WORDS!
Instead of-I am not good at this. I can say-I am not good at this YET, but I will learn!
Instead of-I am great at this. I can say-I practiced and learned how to do this.
Instead of-This is too hard. I can say-This will require a bit more time and effort.
Instead of-This is too easy. I can say-How can I make this more challenging?
Instead of-I am afraid I will make a mistake.
I can say-When I make a mistake, I will learn from it and get better!!!
A special THANK YOU to the Parent Club for the ice cream party on Friday! We enjoyed every bite!!! Also, a huge THANK YOU to you for helping your child raise money for the Walk-a-thon. Our class was in second place for raising the most amount of money. What a better way to celebrate than with ICE CREAM!!!
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