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Mrs. Healey’s Classroom News (11/15/15)
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What We’ve Been Up To:
It may have been short, but our week sure was productive! Thanks for all of your help with our "Turkey in Disguise" homework. It's funny, I sent home 17 turkeys, and didn't get one back ;-) I think it's safe to say, these "turkeys" will stay safe this Thanksgiving!
*Reading: The owls have been having more fun than ever during their reader's workshop. As we're in our last stages of our nonfiction reading unit, they have grown enormously with their ability to sustain reading, pull out important information, talk about their learning, and, most recently, compare information across texts. This is a lot of work for second graders---thank goodness it's engaging and fun!! Early last week, the "book fairy" delivered a "topic baggie" to each Owl. In it, there were 2-5 sources about a topic of their choice. They had so much fun digging in and learning even more as they read each text! It was some of the best reading work I've seen all year! Check them out!
As we continue our study of community, second graders have several community guest speakers joining us over the next two weeks. It'll be fun to see how each plays a role in our wonderful community!
It may have been short, but our week sure was productive! Thanks for all of your help with our "Turkey in Disguise" homework. It's funny, I sent home 17 turkeys, and didn't get one back ;-) I think it's safe to say, these "turkeys" will stay safe this Thanksgiving!
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| Turkeys? No turkeys here... |
*Math: 2H continues to build a solid understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction. We've done continued work with fact families, number stories, and finding missing addends, while also building addition and subtraction strategies. We'll be wrapping up this unit this week, and begin Unit 4: Place Value & Measurement, after the holiday break.
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| Fact Family Turkey made with Mrs. Forest |
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| Fact Family Turkey made with Mrs. Forest |
*Reading: The owls have been having more fun than ever during their reader's workshop. As we're in our last stages of our nonfiction reading unit, they have grown enormously with their ability to sustain reading, pull out important information, talk about their learning, and, most recently, compare information across texts. This is a lot of work for second graders---thank goodness it's engaging and fun!! Early last week, the "book fairy" delivered a "topic baggie" to each Owl. In it, there were 2-5 sources about a topic of their choice. They had so much fun digging in and learning even more as they read each text! It was some of the best reading work I've seen all year! Check them out!
Once they began gathering information, they met with their reading partner and then were put into "rug clubs" to grow their conversations. We practiced using some sentence stems to help move the conversation deeper.
All of this hard work, is gearing them up for our nonfiction reading celebration in which they will use their new learning to teach others what they know! We'll be working on that during this upcoming week. Be sure to ask your child about their topic and some of things they have learned.
In addition, their weekly reading homework this week involves reading a nonfiction text. This text does not need to be related to the topic they're studying in class (but it can!). Students are more than welcome to borrow a text from the classroom to complete this assignment (some already took me up on this offer!). Please let me know if you'd like me to send a book home with your child.
*Global Read Aloud: We wrapped up our Global Read Aloud this week! What fun we've had studying author, Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Her books are clever, silly, and include great messages. Ask your child what their favorite story has been. To end our project, we wrote letters to Ms. Rosenthal, which we'll send out next week. We'll keep our fingers crossed for a response! [The owls were thrilled to see that we did get some author interaction already: Amy Krouse Rosenthal liked one of our tweets!)
*Community Project: On Friday, you received a notice asking for a black & white photo of a place in Stratham. Our owls enjoyed studying Mo Willems' book Knuffle Bunny and seeing how he incorporated photos of his hometown. They are anxious to begin crafting our own story using photos from our community. Please have photos emailed by Wednesday so we can begin this work. Stuck? Take a look a Ms. Riley's blog post for inspiration! We thank her for sharing this great project idea with us!
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| Picture of Mo Willems' work in Knuffle Bunny |
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| Barker's Farm Stand in Stratham |
*Recess: Students go outside for recess everyday unless it is raining or dangerously cold. Please be sure your child has appropriate clothing to stay warm. As always, please make sure all clothing has your child’s name in it so we can help keep things from getting lost.
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Coming Up:
-Early Release/Parent Conferences: Wednesday, Nov. 18th
-Community Photo Due: Wednesday, Nov. 18th
-Community Photo Due: Wednesday, Nov. 18th
-"Dress as you'll be Day" (dress for your future career): Wednesday, Nov. 18th
-Report Card Envelopes sent home: Friday, Nov. 20th
-Report Card Envelopes sent home: Friday, Nov. 20th
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