Thank you to everyone who came to Math and Phonics Night on Wednesday. In case you missed it, here is our presentation from the evening along with the Spalding packet we handed out. We were able to share many tips and tricks for helping with Singapore Math and Spalding.
Here are some math games you can play at home. In regards to math homework, please have your child correct any mistakes by asking them to, "Look at #__ again, I'm not sure that's correct." Have them self-check and don't over-help. Embrace the struggle! Please let me know if you need help with homemade math manipulatives.
Please make sure the Spalding spelling words are being read to your child every night. They need to write the words without looking three times (plus separate the syllables and include markings - underline phonograms). Please read through the entire list list once (have them self-check, make corrections), twice (self-check, make corrections), and three times (self-check, make corrections). This will help them remember and practice each word. On Thursday evenings they will write it for spelling like a practice test.
Leveled readers for book logs will be sent home on Monday. Please let me know if we need to adjust your child's book. The goal is to practice fluency and accuracy. I did my best to match your child with a "just-right" book based on our DIBELS test scores.
A Special Note From Mrs. Smith...Here is a picture of Mr. & Mrs. Smith at Mr. Smith's Gallery Opening last weekend in Santa Monica, California!
On Monday we celebrated our good choices in August (from spelling the word FRIENDSHIP) with lunch outside and popsicles! Here are a few pictures:
Our next virtue we are trying to spell out as a class is PERSEVERANCE! We can earn letters by receiving compliments from our teachers. Our school-wide virtue is citizenship. How is your child being helpful at home and at school?
Here are some of our amazing Island Projects (grades for those were sent home in Friday Folders today)...
Next week in 2nd grade...
Language Arts: The students are doing great with reciting Something Told the Wild Geese. Check out the link so you can hear your students reciting the poem as a class. We listened to this video and the students LOVED the chorale version!
We will continue working on Spalding phonograms and spelling words! Please be practicing the phonograms with your child each evening.
Spalding Words Next Week:
Monday: watch, dash, fell, fight, buy, by, stopping, stop, walk, talk, chalk
Tuesday: grant, soap, news, new, small, smaller, smallest, war, summer
Wednesday: above, express, turn, lesson, half, father, anything, table, high, June
In grammar we will learn about adjectives and article adjectives! We have been learning fun, catchy songs to help us remember the difference between all the parts of speech. Ask you grammar professional to sing their favorite song to you this week!
In literature we are deep into Charlotte’s Web, we will follow the family as they attend the fair, and we will keep our fingers crossed for Wilbur as his fate is still unclear!
Math: In math will work on regrouping ten ones as one ten. While doing homework have your child articulate what they are doing (my answer is 14, so I will rename 10 ones as 1 ten, and leave 4 ones). We will work on recognizing even and odd numbers. We will also be adding 3 numbers together! The students are doing great with mental math, I am so impressed by the hard work and dedication!
History: This week, we will continue to journey through Japan, learning about the rich Japanese traditions in art and nature. Students will play a review game and take home a study guide for the unit test Friday.
Science: We are fluttering into our next life cycle study ~ can you guess what it is? It's the life cycle of a butterfly! Ask your young scientist if they can identify the stages of life in the animals we've learned about so far: a chicken, a frog, and now a butterfly.
Thank you! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I will be celebrating my 30th birthday with family, friends, and a food truck! Pictures to come on our post next week :-). Thank you for all of the warm wishes today! Have a great weekend!
Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski
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