January 9th

Writing:

Our purpose for writing the week was to write stories with a beginning, middle, and an end. We read the book Snowmen At Night and the kids wrote their own story about what their snowmen do a night. They then drew a chalk picture to go along with it.

We also reviewed capital letters. Using correct capitalization is a no excuse part of writing in 2^nd grade. We discussed capitalizing the beginning of sentences, the word “I”, and proper nouns. Please help your child with this at home, especially if they are still writing capital letters in the middles of words.

Reading:

We had 2 focuses for reading this week. The first was to read a variety of books to practice the skills of good readers. We created charts for what good readers do (visualize, make connections, ask questions) and how to add sticky notes to books to show our thinking.

The second focus was to read folktales to retell and look for elements of folktales. The kids really enjoyed getting a chance to read a variety of folktales and look at the different versions.

Reading a folktale and recording elements found

Math

The math focus was to add 2 (or 3) digit numbers using place value. We practiced when you need to regroup and also doing mental math.  The kids loved building the addition problems with base ten blocks and showing their word paper and pencil.

Next week we dive into subtraction with borrowing!!