Hello families,
Here is what is happening in Room 105 this week!
In reading we are continuing to work on non-fiction. We learned that readers of non-fiction look closely at details and ask questions before and during reading. We looked closely at a globe, Lego directions and non fiction books. We learned that we don't just look at a piece of non-fiction (like the globe) and think, "Oh yes, that is a globe I know all about it"." We found after looking closely and having a discussion there were many details we did not notice at first! Then we looked closely at the penny. We found we learned many new details we never noticed before! We will continue to work with non-fiction to find out how each part of non-fiction teaches something new and ask "how does this book go?" before and during reading. Please encourage non-fiction reading at home, your child will love learning about topics and finding out details. Today we read about the Moon! Many questions came up. So we will be looking on Friday for books on the Solar System to learn more!
In writing we are continuing with Lab Report writing. In the classroom this week we will explore how air pushes a "balloon rocket" and propels the balloon forward. We wrote out hypothesis and steps today and will work on the reflections and revising the report the rest of the week. We will be addition definitions to our reports and researching to add more information for another source after our experiments. This week we have discussed air pressure, compressed air and how air propels the rocket forward.
In math, we are continuing on with unit 3, focusing on subtraction strategies. We have learned how to subtract 0 and 1. We worked on "what's my rule?" yesterday. Today we will work on using double facts to subtract. For example, we know 4+4=8. We can use that fact to help us know 8-4=4. We will also play subtraction top it and a fun spinner game for subtraction. Now is the time if you child does not solidly know the doubles facts, to practice, practice, practice at home!
In Science we had a blast shooting off our balloons rockets. We worked on following the procedure, making a prediction about how far it would travel and testing our hypothesis. We will race our balloon rockets on Friday and try changing a variable too!
In phonics, we are working on the final k sound in words. We sorted final k by the -ke, ck and just k.
We learned that when we have the -ke the vowel before the end is long (cake). When we see -ck, the vowel just before it is short (duck), words that end in k by itself usually have a double vowel (look).
We will be going outside on most days. It has been cold for this time of year! You may want to send an extra pair of gloves/mittens to school just in case. Please label all items your child brings!! Most of our snow pants are black - this means we cannot tell them apart! Put names inside to help your child keep track of his or her things!
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Week of Nov. 19-23
Dear families,
This is a short week of school due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
In reading this week we will read The Story of the Pilgrims and learn a little about the first thanksgiving! We will also read the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting. We will read the story and write a prediction about what will happen to the turkey in the story. We will write about the setting, characters and tell the beginning, middle and ending.
In writing this week we will continue to write Lab Reports to go with our science experiments on compressed air. We have learned about air resistance and how air moves things. We will observe how air moves water inside of a syringe today! We will write our question, hypothesis, procedure and results today and tomorrow.
We will write about what we are grateful for on a cornucopia!
In math, we learned how to play the game Salute! We used our number cards to place two cards on our heads, the partners see the number of the other child but not their own. The dealer calls out the sum, then the players try to find the missing addend. Practice is needed on fact recall. If your child does not know their addition facts, please do some extra practice at home either with flash cards or on the i-ready.com site.
For phonics this week we will be continuing to work on contractions. Many students need more practice and support on making contractions.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Nishio will be teaching the students how to make shapes out of paper using the Japanese paper folding technique called Origami! The students are looking forward to it!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Mrs. Scheck
This is a short week of school due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
In reading this week we will read The Story of the Pilgrims and learn a little about the first thanksgiving! We will also read the book A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting. We will read the story and write a prediction about what will happen to the turkey in the story. We will write about the setting, characters and tell the beginning, middle and ending.
In writing this week we will continue to write Lab Reports to go with our science experiments on compressed air. We have learned about air resistance and how air moves things. We will observe how air moves water inside of a syringe today! We will write our question, hypothesis, procedure and results today and tomorrow.
We will write about what we are grateful for on a cornucopia!
In math, we learned how to play the game Salute! We used our number cards to place two cards on our heads, the partners see the number of the other child but not their own. The dealer calls out the sum, then the players try to find the missing addend. Practice is needed on fact recall. If your child does not know their addition facts, please do some extra practice at home either with flash cards or on the i-ready.com site.
For phonics this week we will be continuing to work on contractions. Many students need more practice and support on making contractions.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Nishio will be teaching the students how to make shapes out of paper using the Japanese paper folding technique called Origami! The students are looking forward to it!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Mrs. Scheck
Friday, November 9, 2018
Week of November 12-16
Hello families!
We were surprised to see snow already falling outside today! It is exciting and fun! We talked today about our number one rule when we are playing in the snow... No throwing snowballs! Most students were ready to go outside with boots, snow pants, mittens, hats and warm coats.
Please take some time this weekend and make sure your child has the necessary snow clothes if the snow stays around for next week.
We read the book Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons to kick off our new unit of reading for non-fiction. We learned that in each section of the book the author organized the information into the main ideas such as; armor, weapons, how to become a knight, legendary knights, etc.Today we wrote on summarizing the main ideas in each section of the book, students chose one section to write about. Next week, we will read the book we will read the book Tigers by Laura Marsh. We will learn how this author uses features of non-fiction text to organize her topic such as: maps, labels, glossary, headings, table of contents, etc.
In writing, we have begun the new unit called "Lab Reports." We are learning to organize our experiments from science into a lab reports including these important pieces: Question (a real world question that we will investigate), materials, hypothesis, steps for our experiment, results and conclusion. This week students were writing with me as we worked through all the pieces of our reports after our science experiments.
We have started a new unit in science called Air and Weather. We began with week with two experiments, using these two questions: How does air move things? We used a group of everyday objects and used straws to move them, we also blew up balloons. We learned that air is a mixture of invisible gases with no particular shape. We learned air is a matter, that it is all around us! Our second experiment was "How do parachutes work?" We made parachutes and dropped them from our chairs. Most students observed that without weight on their end of the parachutes stings the parachute did not float well. Monday we'll revise the experiment to include a new step, adding weight to the bottom of our parachute!
In math, we have completed Unit 2. The students took the unit 2 test, and a cumulative review. The test will be sent home early next week! Most students did such a great job learning different strategies for addition! Our next unit in math will focus on subtraction. We will focus on how to use addition to help with solving subtraction number stories, fact families, subtraction top it, counting up and counting back on the number line, playing Salute! and minus 0 and minus 1 fact strategies. I will send home the family letter early next week.
For word study this last week we reviewed long vowel teams with silent e. Most students are ready to move on. Continue to remind students when they are reading to use the silent e to help the vowel say it's name (long). We will work on contractions starting next week!
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Scheck
We were surprised to see snow already falling outside today! It is exciting and fun! We talked today about our number one rule when we are playing in the snow... No throwing snowballs! Most students were ready to go outside with boots, snow pants, mittens, hats and warm coats.
Please take some time this weekend and make sure your child has the necessary snow clothes if the snow stays around for next week.
We read the book Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons to kick off our new unit of reading for non-fiction. We learned that in each section of the book the author organized the information into the main ideas such as; armor, weapons, how to become a knight, legendary knights, etc.Today we wrote on summarizing the main ideas in each section of the book, students chose one section to write about. Next week, we will read the book we will read the book Tigers by Laura Marsh. We will learn how this author uses features of non-fiction text to organize her topic such as: maps, labels, glossary, headings, table of contents, etc.
In writing, we have begun the new unit called "Lab Reports." We are learning to organize our experiments from science into a lab reports including these important pieces: Question (a real world question that we will investigate), materials, hypothesis, steps for our experiment, results and conclusion. This week students were writing with me as we worked through all the pieces of our reports after our science experiments.
We have started a new unit in science called Air and Weather. We began with week with two experiments, using these two questions: How does air move things? We used a group of everyday objects and used straws to move them, we also blew up balloons. We learned that air is a mixture of invisible gases with no particular shape. We learned air is a matter, that it is all around us! Our second experiment was "How do parachutes work?" We made parachutes and dropped them from our chairs. Most students observed that without weight on their end of the parachutes stings the parachute did not float well. Monday we'll revise the experiment to include a new step, adding weight to the bottom of our parachute!
In math, we have completed Unit 2. The students took the unit 2 test, and a cumulative review. The test will be sent home early next week! Most students did such a great job learning different strategies for addition! Our next unit in math will focus on subtraction. We will focus on how to use addition to help with solving subtraction number stories, fact families, subtraction top it, counting up and counting back on the number line, playing Salute! and minus 0 and minus 1 fact strategies. I will send home the family letter early next week.
For word study this last week we reviewed long vowel teams with silent e. Most students are ready to move on. Continue to remind students when they are reading to use the silent e to help the vowel say it's name (long). We will work on contractions starting next week!
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Scheck
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Sharing small moments stories!
Hello families,
Last week Second Graders ended their first unit of writing called "Small Moments" (personal narratives). We shared our stories with the students from Mrs. Megyesi's class to celebrate. In return, the kindergarten students shared their stories with us too!
Here are a few pictures from our visit to Mrs. Megyesi's room!
Last week Second Graders ended their first unit of writing called "Small Moments" (personal narratives). We shared our stories with the students from Mrs. Megyesi's class to celebrate. In return, the kindergarten students shared their stories with us too!
Here are a few pictures from our visit to Mrs. Megyesi's room!
Monday, November 5, 2018
Week of Nov. 5-9
Dear families,
This week we will be moving on to many of new units for each subject this week!
In reading, we have wrapped up our first unit on Reader's Grow like Beanstalks!
We have started a non-fiction reading unit. Today we began reading Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons. We read the first part of the book, pausing to talk about what we learned. We learned many new things about knights such as: the weapons knights used, how to become a knight and how knights used armor to protect themselves. Wednesday we will continue to read and add on to the information we have learned so far.
In writing, we have begun writing Science Lab Reports. This works well with our new science unit that also began today! We did an experiment on how air moves things. We used straws to move objects such as: a cotton ball, styrofoam ball, feather, paper and a plastic bag. We learned that air is matter, it is all around you, and it is an invisible gas! Before the experiment we wrote a hypothesis, then we wrote out the materials we needed, the steps to our experiment and pictures labeling the items we used. On Wednesday we will write a conclusion to our first experiment.
We took an i-ready growth monitoring assessment in class today for reading. Parents are welcome to have their child log into their i-ready account at home. You can download a free app for i-ready on your tablet. If you use a laptop or desktop compute, use the website, www.i-ready.com. You will find a login screen. Use your child's login information from his or her assignment notebook. You can have your child work on reading or math. The lesson are used to help your child build skills. Please do not help your child. If a test becomes too difficult, i-ready will adapt to the child. If you're "helping" it appears that the child knows more than he or she does. I recommend not more than 20 minutes a few times a week. I-ready is another way to practice reading and math. Continue to have your child read at home each day for 20 minutes.
We are at the end of unit 2 in math. We wrapped up today with a game called Name That Number. A study guide came home tonight. The study guide is due on Wednesday. The test will also be on Wednesday, November 7th.
We will begin Unit 3 after the test. Look for a family letter detailing Unit 3 later this week!
There is no school tomorrow, November 6th.
Have a good night!
Mrs. Scheck
This week we will be moving on to many of new units for each subject this week!
In reading, we have wrapped up our first unit on Reader's Grow like Beanstalks!
We have started a non-fiction reading unit. Today we began reading Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons. We read the first part of the book, pausing to talk about what we learned. We learned many new things about knights such as: the weapons knights used, how to become a knight and how knights used armor to protect themselves. Wednesday we will continue to read and add on to the information we have learned so far.
In writing, we have begun writing Science Lab Reports. This works well with our new science unit that also began today! We did an experiment on how air moves things. We used straws to move objects such as: a cotton ball, styrofoam ball, feather, paper and a plastic bag. We learned that air is matter, it is all around you, and it is an invisible gas! Before the experiment we wrote a hypothesis, then we wrote out the materials we needed, the steps to our experiment and pictures labeling the items we used. On Wednesday we will write a conclusion to our first experiment.
We took an i-ready growth monitoring assessment in class today for reading. Parents are welcome to have their child log into their i-ready account at home. You can download a free app for i-ready on your tablet. If you use a laptop or desktop compute, use the website, www.i-ready.com. You will find a login screen. Use your child's login information from his or her assignment notebook. You can have your child work on reading or math. The lesson are used to help your child build skills. Please do not help your child. If a test becomes too difficult, i-ready will adapt to the child. If you're "helping" it appears that the child knows more than he or she does. I recommend not more than 20 minutes a few times a week. I-ready is another way to practice reading and math. Continue to have your child read at home each day for 20 minutes.
We are at the end of unit 2 in math. We wrapped up today with a game called Name That Number. A study guide came home tonight. The study guide is due on Wednesday. The test will also be on Wednesday, November 7th.
We will begin Unit 3 after the test. Look for a family letter detailing Unit 3 later this week!
There is no school tomorrow, November 6th.
Have a good night!
Mrs. Scheck
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Halloween party and parade
Hello families!
We had a great time yesterday at our parade and party!
I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!
We had a great time yesterday at our parade and party!
I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!
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