October 6th-10th
Writing
This week we are so excited to start our second grade service project, Coins for Coats! We will be incorporating this into language arts, math, and science throughout the month of October. The next two weeks we are getting the word out about the project. We will create commercials for the Kowls news, make posters for the school, write persuasive letters to send home in Tuesday folders and create collection jars. We will continue to practice the spelling rule of the week each day. On Fridays we will assess how well they know the spelling pattern. If you would like additional "at home" practice there are some links on the blog under "websites".
Reading
This week we will be focusing on making connections and inferences as we read. Students will understand that making connections will help them dig deeper to figure out the author's meaning of the story. We will learn how to make text-to self, text- to text, and text-to world connections as we read. We will also be learning about inferences. When we make an inference we are using our schema (what we know) and the author's clues to make a guess as to what is happening in the story.
Spelling
The spelling list will come home on Monday and we will assess their knowledge of the spelling pattern on Friday.
Math
We're late, we're late, for a very important date! We will learn to not be late again as we practice telling time this week. We will start by reminding ourselves how long a second, a minute, and an hour are and tasks we can complete in each of those time periods. We will be looking at analog clocks and digital clocks to tell time to the minute. We will also learn telling time language, such as a quarter to 8. We will practice all week and wrap up with an assessment the following week.
Khan Academy: Telling time with a labeled clock
Many of you have been asking if your child can do more than just this assignment. Of course! We are working through the Early Math Mastery Challenge. Your child can always continue with that.
Science
This week in science we're moving into matter and energy. Students will learn that matter has physical properties and those properties determine how it is described, classified, changed, and used. Students will classify matter by physical properties, including shape, relative mass, relative temperature, texture, flexibility, and whether material is a solid or liquid. We will have some fun sorting activities and see how we can sort our shoes. We'll also have a lab where we observe and identify the physical properties of objects and classify those objects based on observable properties. Students will observe and describe size, shape, color, texture, flexibility, temperature, and mass. Using all of our senses except taste to compare frozen and non-frozen gummy worms and ice pops, deflated and inflated balloons to compare how objects are the same and how are the objects different. We'll be real scientists and ask questions such as:
Did the textures of different things change? How did they change?
Are there differently shaped objects?
Did solids stay solid? Why did some items become liquid?
For this lab we will need: 2 bags of gummy worms, 44 ice pops, 44 balloons
Please let me know if you would like to donate.
Reminders
Library Day is _________: Don't forget to return books to school!
Wednesday, October 8: Spirit Night at Catfish Parlour
Monday, October 13th: Columbus Day, No School/Staff Development
Thursday, October 16: Caraway Science Night
Thursday, October 16: Coffee and Conversation with Mrs. Bailey 7:45-8:30
Saturday, October 25: Caraway Harvest Festival
Wednesday, October 29: Early Release - school ends at 12:45pm
