The upcoming week 8 of school!

Hello 2C families!
What a great week we had! I know I say something along those lines every week, but look at these sweet faces? How lucky am I to get to play, teach, and learn with them daily??

This week we did typing for the first time! We will regularly be practicing typing on Monday afternoons!

Thursday was Mrs. Lacsa's birthday! We treated her like the wonderful princess she is!

The students have been working SO hard at adding numbers with renaming!

Math is always more fun in groups, with oversize dice being thrown around!

Announcements:

• There is no school on Friday!
• Reading logs looked great this week! I have made some notes for changes that need to be made to reading levels, thank you for your patience with me this week!
• Underdog Rescue - we are still collecting dog toys, treats, and food for our September Service project for Underdog Rescue
• Read-a-thon will take place on October 31, students will be able to dress up as their favorite literature character or historical figure, more information to come; I just wanted to get this on your radar!

Here is a look at our learning for week 8 of second grade!

Language arts: Students will recite the poem we have been working on, Something Told the Wild Geese independently in front of the class! I am looking for great posture, and eye contact with the audience during this recitation! We also finish Charlottes Web this week, Charlotte has been acting very strange and we will find out what Wilbur's fate is! We will continue building interesting sentences in grammar. We have learned so many parts of speech so far! Ask your grammar pro to sing you our newest jingle about article adjectives!

Math: We have been talking a lot about renaming 10 ones as 1 ten and 10 tens as 1 one hundred. In math this week we will work on renaming one ten into 10 ones with subtraction. We will learn a rhyming change to help us remember; if there's more on top, no need to stop! If there's more on the floor, we have to go next door and get 10 more! This is a challenging unit, but with diligent practice and patience, we will have successful mathematician on our hands in no time!

History: We will start a journey to a new country; India! Ask you world traveler to identify the country on a map and tell you whey the Indus River was important in the formation of the ancient Indian civilization.

Science: Can you believe we have been lepidopterists (through studying butterflies), herpetologists (through learning about frogs), and even ornithologists (when we learned about the lifecycle of a chicken)? We are continuing with our study on life cycles growing into our next topic: the life cycle of a plant! We will be doing an experiment with a lima bean. Time to add botanist to our list!