Welcome second graders!
We are off to a great start to the school year! Thank you for attending Sneak Peek and completing all the necessary forms!
Each week, I will write a blog to help keep everyone up to date on our classroom activities. Please check each week to see upcoming events and activities.
During our first week of school, we learned the classroom rules and procedures including our Class Dojo behavior system. The second graders learned how to earn and lose points. We read the following books: First Day Jitters, Chrysanthemum, and The Meanest Girl in Second Grade and discussed how they felt about the outcomes.
We enjoyed creating self-portraits, took pictures of our first day of school, searched for classroom items in scavenger hunts, participated in fun activities to help build good relationships!
Math: This past week, we practiced place value that included standard form, expanded form, word form, and modeling base ten blocks.
Example: Place Value 275
Standard Form 275
Expanded Form 200 + 70 + 5 = 275
Word Form two hundred seventy-five
Modeling
one unit = = 1
one long = = 10
one flat = = 100
What number is represented by the picture below?
Answer: 275
Our class applied their knowledge with using digits and understanding value. They changed the order of the digits which transformed the number into different amounts.
Example: Julie is given the digits 2, 8, 9 on notecards. She wants to make the largest three-digit number possible. To do this application, which card should she put in the tens place?
You can make 289, 298, 829, 892, 928, 982
The answer is: 8 in the tens place will give you the largest three-digit number. 982
Our class also learned about rounding. They played rounding games that helped them understand how to round.
Rounding: The number 797 rounds to 800 when rounded to the nearest 10 and to the nearest 100. Explain why this is true.
Answer: rounding rules are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4; round down 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 round up. If you round to the nearest 10, the tens is 79 or 80, the number would be 800 (790 or 800). If you round to the nearest 100, the number would be 800 (700 or 800).
Health:
Bus Safety-Our class learned about safety in the home, school, and community. Students who ride the bus discovered many bus rules and respect for the bus driver by using proper behavior.
Fire Safety-They realized how important fire emergency plans and meeting places in your home. The whole school practiced a fire drill.
Safety Signs-We discussed safety signs on the roads that help guide us. The children integrated the geometric shapes and colors with the signs. Example: A “Stop” sign is an octagon that has eight sides and is red in color.
Internet Safety-The students learned how to use the Internet correctly. Do not place any personal information and chat with strangers! Do not use other students’ user identification numbers and passwords.
Reading and Language Art
In the next few weeks, we will introduce and practice our Daily 5 skills from last year. Your children are amazingly focused readers! Thank you for keeping reading an important skill during your summer. We also wrote about a special moment and completed our pre-assessments for our first unit in reading – asking and answering questions about stories.
HOMEWORK
Beginning on Monday, all second graders at New Prospect will have reading homework every day. As the research shows, the most effective practice for improving reading skills is to read, or be read to every day. To this end students will be expected to read for 10 minutes every day at home. They will enter their reading time and materials in their Reading Log. You will need to initial their Reading Logs every day certifying that the 10 minutes of reading was accomplished.
Students can read books at home, or those they brought home from school. Additionally, they may choose to read something on the internet or a kid’s magazine. Also, they can read to themselves, to you, or, you can read to them. This homework will be recorded in their agendas every day, Monday through Thursday, so please check and initial the agendas just in case there is a change in the assignment. Students will receive math homework on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week. Responsibility is the important element that we are trying to instill in each child’s studies.
CLASSROOM DOJO
Last week, I began monitoring classroom behavior in our second grade classes using DOJO. You received a Class Dojo Parent Agreement Form for you to sign and return. Math students will receive their agreements on Monday. Class Dojo is very interactive! You will even be able to see the good and not so good behaviors your student is exhibiting at school every day. Students will be earning points for a reward at the end of the week.
Please contact me at: [email protected]
We are off to a great start to the school year! Thank you for attending Sneak Peek and completing all the necessary forms!
Each week, I will write a blog to help keep everyone up to date on our classroom activities. Please check each week to see upcoming events and activities.
During our first week of school, we learned the classroom rules and procedures including our Class Dojo behavior system. The second graders learned how to earn and lose points. We read the following books: First Day Jitters, Chrysanthemum, and The Meanest Girl in Second Grade and discussed how they felt about the outcomes.
We enjoyed creating self-portraits, took pictures of our first day of school, searched for classroom items in scavenger hunts, participated in fun activities to help build good relationships!
Math: This past week, we practiced place value that included standard form, expanded form, word form, and modeling base ten blocks.
Example: Place Value 275
Standard Form 275
Expanded Form 200 + 70 + 5 = 275
Word Form two hundred seventy-five
Modeling
one unit = = 1
one long = = 10
one flat = = 100
What number is represented by the picture below?
Answer: 275
Our class applied their knowledge with using digits and understanding value. They changed the order of the digits which transformed the number into different amounts.
Example: Julie is given the digits 2, 8, 9 on notecards. She wants to make the largest three-digit number possible. To do this application, which card should she put in the tens place?
You can make 289, 298, 829, 892, 928, 982
The answer is: 8 in the tens place will give you the largest three-digit number. 982
Our class also learned about rounding. They played rounding games that helped them understand how to round.
Rounding: The number 797 rounds to 800 when rounded to the nearest 10 and to the nearest 100. Explain why this is true.
Answer: rounding rules are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4; round down 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 round up. If you round to the nearest 10, the tens is 79 or 80, the number would be 800 (790 or 800). If you round to the nearest 100, the number would be 800 (700 or 800).
Health:
Bus Safety-Our class learned about safety in the home, school, and community. Students who ride the bus discovered many bus rules and respect for the bus driver by using proper behavior.
Fire Safety-They realized how important fire emergency plans and meeting places in your home. The whole school practiced a fire drill.
Safety Signs-We discussed safety signs on the roads that help guide us. The children integrated the geometric shapes and colors with the signs. Example: A “Stop” sign is an octagon that has eight sides and is red in color.
Internet Safety-The students learned how to use the Internet correctly. Do not place any personal information and chat with strangers! Do not use other students’ user identification numbers and passwords.
Reading and Language Art
In the next few weeks, we will introduce and practice our Daily 5 skills from last year. Your children are amazingly focused readers! Thank you for keeping reading an important skill during your summer. We also wrote about a special moment and completed our pre-assessments for our first unit in reading – asking and answering questions about stories.
HOMEWORK
Beginning on Monday, all second graders at New Prospect will have reading homework every day. As the research shows, the most effective practice for improving reading skills is to read, or be read to every day. To this end students will be expected to read for 10 minutes every day at home. They will enter their reading time and materials in their Reading Log. You will need to initial their Reading Logs every day certifying that the 10 minutes of reading was accomplished.
Students can read books at home, or those they brought home from school. Additionally, they may choose to read something on the internet or a kid’s magazine. Also, they can read to themselves, to you, or, you can read to them. This homework will be recorded in their agendas every day, Monday through Thursday, so please check and initial the agendas just in case there is a change in the assignment. Students will receive math homework on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week. Responsibility is the important element that we are trying to instill in each child’s studies.
CLASSROOM DOJO
Last week, I began monitoring classroom behavior in our second grade classes using DOJO. You received a Class Dojo Parent Agreement Form for you to sign and return. Math students will receive their agreements on Monday. Class Dojo is very interactive! You will even be able to see the good and not so good behaviors your student is exhibiting at school every day. Students will be earning points for a reward at the end of the week.
Please contact me at: [email protected]