Peek At The Week

We had another fabulous week in second grade! All the students
were working so hard! I feel so proud to be their teacher!


Here are some of the things we have been working on:


In Math:

• Began Topic 11 for adding and subtracting with 3 digit numbers
  
• Learned expanded form for solving addition
  
• Used mental math to add hundreds
  
• Used place value models to add 3 digit numbers with regrouping
  
• Began learning keeping the number whole with subtracting
  
  

In Fundations and Reading:

• Finished Unit 12 for the sounds of oi, oy
  
• Took our Unit 12 test
  
• Began Unit 13 for the long sounds of o (oa, oe, and ow)
  
• Played trick word relay
  
• Started reading Rosie's Story and The Gooey Chewy Bubble Gum Contest
  
  

In Science:

• Began learning about interesting insects
  
• Watched a short video
  
• Read Bugs! Book
  
• Made a special insect folder
  
• Began an insect journal on the IPads
  

In Writing/Social Studies:

• Worked on completing our cool continent reports (They are looking good!)
  
• Finished the pictures and captions
  
• Created an “About the Author” page
  

***Special Project Reminder***
Please help your child complete their sports biography project. It is due on Wednesday, April 16^th. I'm looking forward to seeing who they chose and hearing their facts!


Enjoy your weekend!
-Mrs. Farrand

Peek At The Week

I’m so glad we had some nice weather this week!

I think this weekend will be nice too! Yeah for spring!

Here are some of the things we have been working on:

In Math:

·         Reviewed place value and greater than/less than

·         Took our Topic 10 test (They did great!)

·         Took our pretest for Unit 11 on adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers

·         Played subtraction memory

·         Learning a regrouping game for adding and subtracting 3 digits with and without regrouping

In Fundations and Reading:

·         Week 1 of Unit 12 for the sounds of oy, oi

·         Read Played TWINGO for trick words

·         Learned 2 new words destroy and spoil

·         Practiced dictation

·         Read about Wild Weather and a story about birthdays

In Science:

·         Learned about rainbows

·         Played weather Jeopardy

·         Took our weather test

In Writing:

·         Had a round robin reading time for our Chew and Swallow creative weather stories.

·         Wrote compliments about each other’s story (Look in the backpack folder)

***Special Project:

I assigned a sports biography project today. I went over all the steps with the students today. Please look for the yellow paper in their folder. It is due on April 16^th.

Enjoy your weekend!

-Mrs. Farrand