A Happy Week
When I think of this week, one word comes to mind- happy! This week was full of laughter and learning. The students seem to be really enjoying learning more about each other and digging deeper into the academics. I am blown away with how much we are accomplishing in these first weeks of school. Thank you so much for attending Curriculum Night! I am no public speaker but I truly love sharing with you the magic that goes on in 2D and I hope you enjoyed your time in our classroom and seeing your child's work. Please let me know if you have any questions from the information given at Curriculum night!
Reading
This week was all about reading strategies and stamina. As 2nd graders we are growing as readers and amping up our reading power. The students made it to 45 minutes of independent reading this week- which was absolutely amazing and the best part was- they set the bar for themselves and met the goal! We are working on using reading strategies such as "flippy dolphin" where you switch the vowel sounds to see which one sounds right, "chunky monkey" where you sound out chunks of the word that you know and "stretchy snake" where you stretch the word from start to finish. We aren't letting tricky words stop us when it comes to reading stamina, we are using our strategies first. It is a learned skill to use strategies when reading and we are doing SO well. Ofcourse we are still working on rereading!
Writing
This week we have taken some time to look at handwriting and constructing sentences. We did this through writing prompts, letter writing, and beginning our work on small moments! If you have't already, please help your child find a photo of them doing any activity (preferably over the summer so it is a fresh memory), you can email me the picture and I can print it if that is easier!
Math
This week we worked with ten frames to help strengthen our math fact fluency. We also solved number grid puzzles by counting forward and backward by 1's and 10's. The students also began explaining their math thinking through writing. This is something that we will be working on all year in 2nd grade. Lastly, we were able to work on calculator skills and we learned a fun new math game called broken calculator!
Word Work
Although we are still working on our review of vowels (short and long), we completed our first full week of sorting. This week we looked at words ending in "in, un, and an" The students learned many of the different word work activities that they will do weekly with their different sorts. We even did the whip and the nae nae! We are ready to take off with our word teams this coming week. The students did so well with our first week of words!
Dragonfly News
This week we talked about about kindness and what mean words and actions can do to our hearts. We did an activity where we crumpled paper hearts by thinking about something that hurt our heart. We then tried to flatten out the hearts and noticed that the wrinkles did not go away. This taught us to be careful with our words because we know they stay on hearts forever. The students had a great conversation about this. We also celebrated our individual talents and differences with International Dot Day!
September 26th- Johnny Appleseed Day
September 28th- Early Release Day
I hope you had a fun and safe weekend!
More Photos to come :)
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