5-26-16
Fact fluency up to 20 in addition and subtraction are end of the year goals in 2nd grade. You'll notice a lot of fluency worksheets in your child's Friday folder this week. We did a variety of fact fluency worksheets so I could get a good idea of where the class is as a whole. There are a handful of students who have both addition and subtraction mastered. The majority of the students still need to keep working on facts up to 20 over the summer. It's an easy standard to practice no matter where you might be this summer. Subtraction facts are always harder for 2nd graders until they put it together that they can use addition to help with subtraction. Please take a look at all the practice sheets we did this week so you know if your child needs to keep practicing this skill at home.
Friday, June 3rd 6-8 p.m.
The book fair will be open for the kids to buy books on Friday, June 3rd during their recess and at the Ice Cream Social from 6-8 p.m.
We spent a large part of the week working on narratives or short stories. In my opinion, this is by far the hardest of the 3 writings that we work on. We did personal narratives in the beginning of the year, which everyone did a very good job. Creating a short story from scratch is a little harder to organize and write down on paper. Here are some things that all narratives must have: characters, setting, problem(s), attempts to solve the problem, and finally a solution. We worked on narratives about caterpillars this week. I wanted this week to be a realistic fiction about caterpillars. Next week, I will let their imaginations run wild so some of the stories should get pretty interesting.
We already finished up the lessons on 2-dimensional shapes and polygons. We have about 5 lessons or so on fractions and then we will have met all the essential standards in 2nd grade. Any days that we have left over will be spent on telling time. Telling time is kind of a lost art with everything going digital these days but we will do our best to be able to tell time to the 5 minutes on an analog clock.
All of our caterpillars have been in their chrysalis all week. We should have some butterflies when we return from Memorial Day Weekend. Hopefully they won't all emerge while we are gone.
