Week of February 15th

Hello all-

We had a busy, fun week before break!

Highlights of the week included: 

• Wrapping up our narrative writing unit with a small publishing party this morning. 
• Learning about sound in Hands on Nature. 
• Continuing our read aloud "BFG".
• Wrapping up our math unit on place value up to 1000. 
• Traveling to different parts of the world via Google Earth, Telling Time Bingo (ask your child who won), and adding 2-digit numbers into our bank using base ten pieces in Number Corner.
• Preparing for Read Across America Day (March 2) by making hats and a poster to share with the school. 

I hope you all have a fantastic week- we're looking forward to a great stretch of learning when we get back. Just a gentle reminder that teachers have inservice on Monday, February 29th and students start again on Tuesday, March 1. 

Have a wonderful break,

Nancy

Week of February 8th

Hello all- 

First of all- our Valentine's Day celebration will be on Monday. Thanks for sending things in! 

Conferences are coming up in about a month and we've set up our sign up here: Conference sign-up

Please remember to click "edit" and then "save." If none of those times work for you, then please send me an email and we can find another time! 

Highlights of our week included:

• Learning about place value, efficient grouping and money in math. 
• Traveling around the globe via google earth and solving math story problems. 
•  Hands on Nature:  We learned about sound with a puppet show, acting out different animal sounds and movements and exploring with various tools that make sound (tuning fork & painter's stick).
• Celebrating the Chinese New Year by creating dragons in art. 
• Continuing our character study and read aloud of The BFG. 
• Valentine's Celebration!

I'm looking forward to a great week of school next week before break. 

Have a great weekend!

Week of Feb. 1st

Hello families- 

I almost wrote happy spring... but....

Even with the bizarre February weather, we've had a super week of second grade! 

This week marked our 100th day of school (today!) and we celebrated with a visit from "Zero the Hero," a math game looking at numbers in the hundreds and some fun projects.  The fun projects went home with them today! 

Other highlights of the week included:

• Continuing our narrative writing unit by revising to bring our stories to life. We've talked about adding dialogue and slowing our stories down.
• In reading we continue to talk about How Readers Grow!  We talked about Thinking about the text as we read and being able to retell it.  We also talked about how to infer while we read.  
• Continuing our place value unit and learning numbers up to 1000. 

Our celebration for Valentine's Day will be on Friday, February 12th.  Thank you to the parents who volunteered to bring something in, We are still looking for someone to send in some fruit.

We were supposed to preview the book fair on Monday and purchase on Tuesday, but the book fair has been delayed due to snow in Boston, so I'll keep you posted.   I'll send out an e-mail with updated information.

Have a great weekend,

Nancy

Photos of us celebrating the 100th Day:

Music Learning Summaries

Here is a link from Diana Burritt for the learning summaries in her Music class.

Music Learning Summaries