Math:
In Expressions Unit 4, students continue to practice strategies for subtracting numbers within 1,000, both with and without regrouping. This unit will be tested at the end of next week. Please continue to work with your 2nd grader not only on subtraction, but also on counting money and reviewing addition strategies and various story problems. In the next unit, we will begin looking at ways to organize data on graphs.
Reading:
We are wrapping up Reading Street Unit 2, Working Together. This next week, students will be reading the story "One Good Turn Deserves Another". Students will be practicing long "a" words and will be comparing and contrasting characters in a story. Our next large unit is called Creative Ideas. During this unit, we will be exploring the question, "What does it mean to be creative?" Thank you for your continued help in supporting your child with spelling and reading practice at home!
Writing:
Students have been having a lot of fun with our writing unit on technical writing! For their first lab report, they experimented with ramps and toy cars. For their second report, they built catapults in class and are now beginning to test them by launching different objects and comparing how far they go. Next week, we will review the scientific process and the different text features that scientists us when they write. It would be a great time to review the steps to the scientific process with your child!
Science:
The 2nd graders have done an excellent job with their inventors/engineering unit! If you get the chance, swing through our classroom sometime this week to take a look at our bridges. Students will modify them on Monday and Tuesday and we will test them out on Wednesday. We will wrap up this unit by building models of suspension bridges at the end of the week and closely examining their parts.
Social Studies:
Our Kansas State symbol research projects will be going up on display in the red pod this week. Next week, we will be studying United States symbols using technology.
Upcoming Dates:
February 12 - Valentine's Day Party
February 19 - No School
February 24 - Birthday Breakfast
February 24-25 - Conferences - Please sign up on Skyward.
February 25-26 - No School
March 14-18 - Spring Break
March 29 - Langston Hughes Fitness Fair
