I am so thankful for another great week with your kids. I can't believe we have already been in school for 5 weeks! Thank you for your cooperation with the Terrific Thursday folders and for sending back the 2nd grade t-shirt order forms. Please remember that those order forms and the $7 are due by Friday, September 8th. We will be continuing many of the lessons we started last week into next week due to the half day on Wednesday and the 4 day week. Also, just a reminder that we have Back To Football Friday on the 8th as well as Family Fun Night. Please mark your calendars for a great time. If you would like to volunteer to help with Back to Football Friday, please use the link below.
http://signup.com/go/TuZrdJU
Should you have any questions please feel free to contact the coaches at
[email protected] or [email protected]
Important Dates:
September 8: Family Fun Night 5-8pm
September 8: Back to Football Friday
September 19: Spirit Night at Willy's
September 25-29: Fall Break
Below you will find an outline of the topics we will be covering in class this week. Please be sure to check and initial the agenda every night and that your child is reading each evening. Please don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions! :)
Reading:
- Using the illiustrations and text to make inferences about the story elements.
- Fluency- Reading like we talk
- Phonics Focus: Coding, Dividing, and Labeling Multi-syllabic Words, Blends vs. Digraphs, The H Brothers (sh, ch, th, wh, ph)
- Daily 5 Centers
- Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, Work on Writing, Listen to Reading
- How to write about a small moment (Narratives)
- This week we will be writing about a small moment with a relative or our families
- Using transition words
- Adding a strong beginning
- Adding a sense of closure
- Collective Nouns and how to incorporate in writing
- The 5 regions of Georgia
- Appalachian Plateau, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plain
- Land forms
- The rivers of Georgia (Savannah, Flint, and Chattahoochee)
- Place Value with focus on 3 digit numbers
- Building numbers efficiently and inefficiently (42= 4 tens and 2 ones or 3 tens and 12 ones, 158= 1 Hundred 5 Tens 8 ones or 15 tens and 8 ones etc.)
- Example:What is 17 tens and 14 ones equal to? 184. How could you build it more efficiently
- Problem solving with numbers within 20 (See sample problem below)
- Number talks will focus on doubles plus/minus 1 and 2, make 10
- Fact fluency within 20