This week we will continue to put the finishing touches on our Daily Five routines. We also introduce Work on Writing and Listen to Reading. We will be ready ready to launch our full Daily Five implementation and guided reading next week! Some of our Work on Writing activities include Journal Prompts, Vocabulary Journal, Poetry Journal, and Whole Class Journals.
Our whole class reading lessons will focus on activation of schema and retelling. Our text connections for the week include A Chair for My Mother, The Art Lesson and Scholastic News magazine.
In writing, we will work on learning the friendly letter format including greeting, date, body, and closing. We will prepare our family letters for curriculum night. These letter will move through the writing phases of planning, rough draft, conference and final copy. We will also learn the word endings -ll, -ff, -ss, and -zz.
In math, we will continue on with Unit Two. We gave our Unit Two pre-assessment last week in order to develop small guided math groups to help students become proficient in all content covered in Unit Two. Our whole group lessons this week will focus on addition facts, doubles facts, turn around facts, and addition strategies. We will also continue working on the speed and accuracy of our addition and subtraction math facts by doing "Mad Minutes". Mad Minutes are a series of timed quizzes in order to improve the speed recall of basic facts through 20.
In science, we will conclude out unit on frogs. We will have our assessment on Friday. Students will be asked to put the four stages of the life cycle in order and describe each stage using at least two accurate facts. Please encourage your child to review their study cards at home this week! We will also begin to introduce our first social studies unit on goods and services.
A new homework component will be coming home today. Students will come home with their weekly reading logs. The Shrewsbury Public Schools policy is that students in grade two will have 20 minutes of homework per night Monday-Thursday. In addition to the math homework that comes home each night, students are expected to read nightly as well. The reading log asks for the book title and a parent initial. Please see this new form in your child's homework folder tonight!
Important Date: Curriculum Night is Thursday September 27 at 6:30. If you are unable to attend, please let me know and I can send home my handouts for your review! Looking forward to meeting you all soon!
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