This week we started our new Reading program. We read several stories about different regions of the world. We learned about Alaska. Did you know in the winter Alaska has more than 60 days of darkness and in the summer the sun doesn't set for more than 80 days? We read about different types of rain forests and saw pictures of several animals that live there. We will be studying rain forests in science when we come back from break.
We started writing a fictional story in Writing. The students loved making up characters and telling a story. We will continue to work on these stories in the coming week by revising and editing them and then hopefully typing them using our laptops.
You may have noticed from the homework, we practiced spelling words that have silent letters in them, such as wr, kn, gn, sc & mb. We had a spelling test today and the students performed very well on it.
In Math, we practiced using a calculator to enter money amounts. We also practiced estimating money and counting change. These are very beginning skills for second graders and also the most difficult. You can help your child by having them try to figure out what your change is at a store. Have them also estimate the cost of two items together. The more they work on these skills the better they will become at them.
We finished up our Solids, Liquids and Gas unit this week. After break we will begin our unit on Ecology beginning with our rain forest study. In Social Studies, we continued discussing how communities change. This week we focused on what happens to a community when things start to shut down and how it can them be built back up again.
Please keep in mind that next week there are half days on Wednesday and Thursday for requested conferences and on Friday school is closed.
Have a great weekend...
