11-18-16
I want to thank everyone for making it out for conferences this week. Communication between home and school is the key for success. Please contact me at anytime if you have any concerns or questions.
Student Council is sponsoring this two-day fund raising campaign on Monday, November 21st and Tuesday, November 22nd. Each classroom will receive a collection box for any donations (cash, loose change). Checks have to be made out to JDRF. I forwarded an email earlier in the week explaining the event in more detail. Our school goal is to raise $1500 to help kids who live with diabetes.
We are headed to Miller Auditorium on Tuesday, November 29th to see Ensemble Espanol. We will be leaving at 11:30 and returning around 2:15. We will have to eat lunch in the classroom that day so please make sure everyone packs their own lunch. Please let me know if you'd like to order a sack lunch from the cafeteria that day.
Language Arts
This week we explored the question, “How do you know if something is a fact or an opinion?” We read two informational texts about the deep blue sea. The first selection, Jellies, features beautiful underwater photographs and fascinating facts about jellyfish. Then Meet Norbert Wu will introduce us to a man who makes his living photographing animals that live in the ocean. What an exciting—and wet—job!
Target Vocabulary: decide, disgusting, drift, millions, simple, wrapped, choices, weaker
Phonics Skills: Contractions
Vocabulary Strategy: Base words and suffixes –er and –est (comparatives and superlatives)
Comprehension Skill: Fact and opinion—tell if an idea can be proved or is a feeling
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/ clarify—find ways to figure out what doesn’t make sense
Module 4 & 5 easily take up the majority of the year in math. Module 4 is 31 lessons in itself. There will be a mid-module and an end of module assessment.
Target Vocabulary: decide, disgusting, drift, millions, simple, wrapped, choices, weaker
Phonics Skills: Contractions
Vocabulary Strategy: Base words and suffixes –er and –est (comparatives and superlatives)
Comprehension Skill: Fact and opinion—tell if an idea can be proved or is a feeling
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/ clarify—find ways to figure out what doesn’t make sense
GRADE 2 • MODULE 4
Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100
Module Overview
Topic A: Sums and Differences Within 100
Topic B: Strategies for Composing a Ten
Topic C: Strategies for Decomposing a Ten
Topic D: Strategies for Composing Tens and Hundreds
Topic E: Strategies for Decomposing Tens and Hundreds
Topic F: Student Explanations of Written Methods
Lesson 1
Objective: Relate 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, and 10 less to addition and subtraction of 1 and 10.
We introduce the arrow way as another strategy to add tens and ones.
Lesson 2
Objective: Add and subtract multiples of 10 including counting on to subtract.
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| Portage in the Past - Phase 1 |
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be talking about what attracted the Potawatomi to Portage. The swampy muck land and the vicious mosquitos kept many away. The Great Lakes were another barrier to Michigan. The Potawatomi saw much more in the land we now know as Portage. This friendly group of Native Americans were always on the move but continued to come back to Portage.
Reasons the Potawatomi were attracted to this land: streams, rivers, lakes, trees, various animals, nut trees, maple syrup, honey, fish, soil for crops, etc...
