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Conferences are coming up on Feb. 14th and Feb. 16th. Please use this link and the code tk238 to sign up.
I can't believe it took me so long to try out this website. This is the perfect website to help your child master their addition and subtraction facts. If they master both addition and subtraction, they can move onto multiplication and division. It's the perfect site. I'm sending home parent letters so you can access the site at home. It will link your child's data so you can follow along with their progress at home. They even have an app for like $5 or it's completely free at xtramath.org. My goal is to have everyone do at least one round daily at school. It will be much easier next year once all the grades are 1:1 with technology. For now, we have to share in 2nd grade. Please email me if you have any questions. You do need to know my email which is bcritz@portageps.org and each child has a 4-digit pin. I'll send the pin #'s home as well but they are on a tiny piece of paper so email me if you need it again.
I've had a few emails about the details of our Valentine's Day. It will be on Friday, February 10th which is a half day. I don't usually do a party or anything but I do let the kids pass out valentine's and I have a few activities planned throughout the day.
Valentine Originality
Decorate a box at home to be your Valentine mailbox. This will hold your cards from your classmates and teachers. You may use any type of box you wish. Some examples are shoe, cereal, cracker, shirt, tissue, whatever! Turn your box into some clever, creative item to be your mailbox. Some fun ideas may include a toaster, shark, computer, doghouse, candy bar, oven, microwave, fire truck, pop can… really stretch your brain to have an unusual type of mailbox. Or decorate it and make it beautiful!
Guidelines:
1. Cover your box completely.
2. Have an opening large enough for valentines from friends.
3. Create an easy way to remove your cards so you can use
your box to take your valentines home.
4. YOUR NAME must be clearly marked by the opening so it
will be easy for your friends to deliver your valentines.
5. HAVE FUN!
Due Date: Friday, February 10th
Here are a few examples from previous years.
Class List for Valentine's Day
Evelyn
Sam
Thomas
Chase
Avery
Grant
Lexi
Logan
Isabella
Evie
Khushi
Keegan
Allie
James
Evan
Brady
Carlina
Courtney
Kollin
During the next few weeks, we’ll explore the
theme Heroes and Helpers. As we’ll discover,
this category can include anyone from caped
superheroes to people you see every day at
work, at school, or in your own mirror! As we
read, we’ll discuss the Big Idea “We can all make
a difference.” This week, we meet Mr. Tanen, a
school principal who uses his tie collection to
help his school. Mr. Tanen’s Tie Trouble is a
realistic fiction story about a hero and a helper.
Students will explore the question “When might
a character need help solving a problem?”
We’ll also read an informational text called
Playground Fun.
Target Vocabulary: received, account,
budget, disappointed, chuckled, staring,
repeated, fund
Phonics Skills: Base words and
endings -ed, -ing (including doubling
the final consonant and /ed/, /t/, /d/,
pronunciations for -ed)
Vocabulary Strategy: Homographs(Multiple Meaning Words)
Comprehension Skill: Story structure—
tell the setting, character, and plot in a
story
Comprehension Strategy: Infer/
predict—use clues to figure out more
about story parts
Lesson 24
Objective: Use manipulatives to represent subtraction with decompositions of 1 hundred as 10 tens and 1 ten as 10 ones.
Lesson 25
Objective: Relate manipulative representations to a written method.
Lesson 26
Objective: Use math drawings to represent subtraction with up to two decompositions and relate drawings to a written method.
Lesson 27
Objective: Subtract from 200 and from numbers with zeros in the tens place.
Maps
This week we reviewed the differences between maps and globes. We also focused on cardinal directions and started making our own compass rose. We also went over the key components that make a good map: Title, Map Key, Compass Rose, Scale, Color, and Labels.
