Back to School Night Presentation

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Recap of this week/Looking Ahead

 This Week

This week my students were busy bees learning elements of the Daily 5!  They have been practicing their stamina on reading to themselves and reading with a buddy.  I am impressed with how they are progressing.  We learned lots of new and great vocabulary words and I taught the students strategies to determine the meaning of unknown words. They did a lot of responding to reading in their response journals.  

In math, my students took an Algebra Test which went home today.  Please sign and return the test by Wednesday.  

Next Week

My math class will begin the Place Value and Number Computation Unit which will last for approximately 3 weeks.  If you need another copy of a Parent Preview Sheet for the upcoming math units (whether your child is in my math class or not) jus tclick the link on the right side of the blog to find them!

In writing, we are beginning our unit on Personal Narratives.  We will spend a lot of time immersing the students into this genre of writing and going through the steps of the writing process. 

The Soil Unit will end next Friday.  

Have a nice weekend!

Week of 9/19

Here is an outlook for next week:

 

Reading-

We will continue to work on the routines of reading group.  The comprehension focus will be summarizing. I am beginning to implement the "Daily-Five" which is a reading and writing program created by two teachers.  The structure is based on meaningful literacy tasks, which are 

• Read to Self
• Work on Writing
• Word Work (Words Their Way Spelling)
• Listen to Someone Read
• Read to Someone

Writing-

The writing focus for this week will be responding to reading. This will be on-going throughout the year and the students will be using their reading journals to respond to their guided reading group books as well as their own independent books.

Math- 

We will be finishing the Patterns Unit and the post-test will be given on Wednesday.  Our next unit is Place Value and Number Computation. 

Science-

We are about half way through the soil unit and we will continue to explore soil.  

I look forward to seeing everyone at Back to School Night on Tuesday! 

Donors Choose

I received 3 flip cams last week through an amazing program, Donors Choose. I will be introducing the flip cams to the class and I am excited about all the great activities we can use with the flip cams!

I have another project on Donors Choose asking for materials for my listening center. Please visit the link on the side of the page.

Words Their Way Update

Homework for Words Their Way will being NEXT week.  We are continuing to practice the word sorts so they are prepared for homework completion. The students are expected to take their Words Their Way journals home each night to complete their homework.  Details about the homework will be sent home this week.

Outlook for this week

Good Evening Parents!

This coming week we will begin guided reading groups and literacy centers.  I will be focusing on the routines of guided reading groups and transitions so that we start off with solid organization.  In reading group, we are reading realistic fiction books.  Our comprehension strategy will be summarizing.

In my math class, the students will now have homework.  We started the Algebra and Patterns Unit on Friday and will continue this unit for about a week or more.  A parent preview sheet went home on Friday.

Go Ravens!

Reading Homework

This is your child's first week of having reading homework.  They are to read a book of their choice for at least 15 minutes.  Please sign your  name in their agenda book to confirm that they indeed read.  If you have time, it's always a good idea to talk to your child about what they read.  You could ask them to summarize the story or part they read, tell you about their favorite part or favorite characters or make predictions if they didn't finish the book. Those are just a few ideas.  Thank you for your support at home in helping the students become great readers! Spelling homework will begin next week. 

Stay dry!

First Week of School

We had a wonderful first week in 2nd grade! I have enjoyed getting to know each and every one of my students.  I am excited about what this school year will bring.  I have a fabulous group of 2nd graders.

We spent a lot of time getting to know one another in many different ways.  This is helpful to me as a teacher so I can best meet each students' interests and needs.  After reading Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes the students wrote and decorated Acrostic Poems using their first names, which turned out very nice.  They also wrote and illustrated about their summer vacation after reading How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague.

In addition to learning about one another we revisited school rules and created our own classroom rules.  The students created most of the rules on their own and did an excellent job with this. Throughout this week the students have been taught routines and they are adjusting well to the expectations of 2nd graders.

Each quarter the students will set a goal for themselves that they will always be working towards.  For 1st quarter, each 2nd grader chose a behavior goal.  These goals are posted on my classroom door and we will revisit the goals throughout the quarter to make sure the children are putting forth their best efforts in order to meet the goals.  

All week the students practiced chorally reading a poem titled, "Back to School." I recorded the students reading the poem but I am having difficulty uploading the file to the blog.  Hopefully you will soon be able to listen to 16 charming students reading the poem!

As a reminder, the students have a homework assignment to bring in a "Me-Bag" with a few items that express their interests and information about themselves.  I look forward to seeing what they all bring in.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Labor Day weekend and I look forward to seeing the children on Tuesday.