It's hard to believe we have been in school for 100 days!
Reading: We began a new unit in Reader's Workshop. This week the children learned strategies for building reading fluency. Reading with fluency is one of the most important skills for second-grade readers, because reading fluently helps you understand what you're reading. Strategies that were taught were; reading aloud to help in-the-head reading voices, scooping up words into longer phrases, and reading dialogue tags to help read dialogue with expression.
Writing: This week the children began writing opinions about our reading. Students chose a character from a book they love, that they have a strong opinion about. Then they
Math: This week students learned how inches, feet and yards are related and used yard strings to measure objects in the classroom that were about 1 yard, exactly 1 yard and longer than 1 yard.
Valentine's Day is right around the corner. We will be celebrating by having a pancake breakfast and passing out valentine cards to classmates. If your child chooses to participate, there was a class list in their folder last week. Please make sure they include one for every classmate.
Other Things to Ask Your Child About:
~A day in the life of a city child and country child in Japan
~Measuring in yards and Twelve Snails to One Lizard
~Quick facts in Number Corner
Have a great weekend!
Katie
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