We are off to a great start to the 19-20 school year. Your children have been doing a great job learning all about the expectations and procedures in second grade. Here is a little update on what's been going on in our classroom:
We started EL! This is our new English Language Arts program. It's different than the daily 5 program we have been using for the past several years. The major difference is that we will be doing more whole group lessons where the class has lots of opportunities to turn and talk to share their thinking with partners or a small group. We will be digging deeper into various texts throughout the year to really get a deeper understanding of the text and specific concepts.
In math we have been working on different strategies to add numbers and learning about the difference between odd and even numbers. There are many different hands on activities we have been using to help them learn the concepts. We started math centers too. We learned expectations for playing games and did some xtramath as a class to practice our facts. We will be working with technology each day starting next week, so please return the technology permission slips asap.
We have done a little work with writing complete sentences and some general writing about being back to school.
In science we are learning about the weather. Discuss with them if there are any changes in the weather and what makes that happen.
In SS we are learning about communities as we create our own in the classroom.
We are off to a great start to the school year!
