Week of March 25-29

Hello families,

We are off to a good start this week! The students are continuing to work on: opinion writing, reading to find the main idea, using strategies to add two digit and subtract two digit numbers, and working on a new vowel team: ei, ie.

In reading, we will continue to read books with chapters and determine the most important part. this is an important skill. When students are asked to retell as story, it helps them to pause in their reading and write what happened. We have discussed characters, problem, solution, main events, and some details because they all go into a good retelling.

In writing, we are selecting a book we have read to give an award to. We will write a rough draft, outlining three reasons we think the book is great, then we will use the rough draft to write a final copy. We will also make a poster advertising the book to other students. After spring break, we will share the books with other second grade classes in a celebration to end our opinion writing unit.

In math, we are at the end of Unit 6. We worked yesterday previewing unit 7 through explorations. We will be working on measurement, addition with four or more addends, generating and organizing data, and interpreting data. The math test for Unit 6 is Wednesday, March 27th. The study guide is due tomorrow. We will do a "math scoot" in class to help us prepare!

In phonics we have a new vowel team ei, and ie. We will work with words containing these vowels all week. I hope you had a chance to try the sort on  www.pearsonrealize.com. It is just another tool for practice. We will be doing the sort in class this week along with other activities from the site!

Second grade musical information- a note went home from Ms. Emmet last week. It details what the students are wearing. We will perform the musical in school on Thursday, March 28th. We will perform again at night on Thursday. Students arrive at 6:30 p.m.

The book fair is open during lunch time and on Thursday night! If you like to shop with your child and help him or her select books, you can do that. If your child bring money to school to shop, the book fair is open at lunch time and he or she can shop!

Have a great day!
Mrs. Scheck