Week of September 25-29

Hello families!

This week in Second Grade we have been working hard all week!

In reading this week we read the book Library Mouse. In the story the main character, Sam, takes charge of his learning by writing stories. First he reads a lot of books, then he realizes he can be an author too. Next he write and shares his stories with the kids in the library and lastly he teaches the kids that they are authors also.We read the book a few times and learned a new vocabulary word:biography.  We also wrote reflections about the story in class.

In writing this week we have begun to write for longer periods of time. We are working on writing small moments. We learned that writers stretch out a small moment, zooming in on one part.  We read the book Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. The author gives us a great example with all the details in the story. We tried putting more details and precise words into our stories. We learned writers make their stories more interesting by making their characters move and talk. We tried using quotation marks in our writing.

For phonics this week we learned about the short vowels and compared them to the long vowels. We practice word patterns. We took an assessment of the words we learned last year. The assessment will be used to help build our word wall in class.

In math this week, we introduced the quarter and counted coins. We played the penny-nickel-dime exchange game. We also reviewed odd and even numbers. We practiced making odd and even numbers on a double ten frame.

We have been learning about communities in Social Studies. This week we discussed that we belong to many groups within a community such as: school, home, sports teams, church, girl scouts, boy scouts, etc.

Next week: we will continue to work on reviewing the concepts learned in First Grade in math. We will work on writing a retelling after reading a story together, we will continue to learn more about communities, we will learn about compound words!

Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Scheck