11/06/2009
2nd Grade News
maureen.kahill@rswsu.org
linda.rudnicki@rswsu.org
The weather has certainly begun to change. Please make sure your child is prepared to go outside.
In Math, we have begun Unit 4. This is a continuation of addition and subtraction but using those skills in number stories, parts and total number stories, temperatures, estimation, money, measurement, and identifying the value of digits in multi-digit numbers. Keep reviewing your basic math facts. We would love everyone to pass addition math fact masters.
Due to the shortened week we will not be starting a new story. We will be working on reinforcing all of our Razzle ME Dazzle Me words in our writing. We are continuing with our writing trait “focus/ideas.” We know that good writers focus on organization. We will continue to be using transition words to help us tell our story. Transition words help us keep order. Some of the transition words that we will be using include: soon, first, second, then, next, in the end, while, lastly, later, during, and meanwhile. Please remind the children to always answer in a complete sentence any time a question is asked. We are also going to continue to discuss contractions and proper nouns.
Please make sure your child is reading everyday for fifteen minutes. This reading becomes evident when we cold score them during our Read Naturally time. When your child is done reading ask them to retell the story to you and ask them if it reminds them of another story they have read.
Helpful websites:
Www.quia.com/cm/154982.html
http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/poetry/index.html
http://www.primarygames.com/contractions/start.htm
http://resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html
http://www.spellingcity.com/moeannk/
Razzle me dazzle me words: clutched, terrific, spirit, compete, contribute, recreation, deserve, mope, actuate, aloft, and tinker.
No Spelling test this week.
We will be having an assessment in Science when we return from our long weekend. You can review the following with your child to help them prepare.
1.A star is made of hot, glowing gases.
2.The Sun is the closest star to Earth.
3.The Sun looks small but is very big.
4.The Sun is important to Earth.
5.The Earth turns on an imaginary line called an axis.
6.Every day, Earth makes one rotation, or turn.
.7.It is day when your side of Earth faces the Sun.
8.It is night when your side of Earth faces away from the Sun.
9.Earth is always tilted in the same direction.
10.Earth spins on its axis.
11.Earth orbits the Sun one time in a year.
12.The largest thing you can see in the night sky is the Moon.
13.Stars in the night sky look small because they are far away.
14.A crater is a bowl shaped hole in the ground.
15. A constellation is a group of stars that form a picture.
16. The Moon rotates, or turns, as it goes around Earth.
17. The Moon does not make its own light.
18. It takes about 4 weeks for the Moon to move around the Earth.
19. A phase is the shape of the lighted part of the Moon.
20. Planets orbit around the Sun.
21. The planets, moons, stars, and Sun make up our solar system.