Week #6 September 30-October 4, 2019

A Fun Week for All!

New games at morning meeting, rehearsing narrative stories, new readers' notebooks, solving math problems and completing Math Menu, creating google slides for Open House, The Fun Run...I don't think 2nd grade could be any more fun or productive!

We used our brainstormed list of personal narrative topics to tell our stories to each other, plan the first, next, then and last elements of our stories and began drafting.  We used our class model of our story about making slime and Mrs. Hock's story about her horse accident to frame our independent work as writers.

This week in reading, we read with assigned buddies, received our readers' notebooks and created our system for using our "comfy corner".  We have been practicing many jobs we have as readers including independent reading, partner reading, and writing about reading.  We'll add word work, listening to reading and speaking about reading in future lessons.

We braved the damp chill of Friday morning and did our best to run 2 laps in our sunny yellow t-shirts for the PTO Fun Run.  Thank you for your support in this fundraiser!

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• The Change Game, Four Corners, Heads Down/Thumbs Up
• Math Journals, Even Steven and Odd Todd, Counting Bags and Addition Fact Sort
• A guidance lesson with Ms. Amblo and the book she made (including a picture of Mrs. Hock when she was in 2nd grade)
• Scientists' tools used to protect, hold, gauge and magnify

Enjoy the weekend!

Mrs. Hock