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Welcome to Week 3!

Hello Parents!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! This week, we will begin differentiated homework in second grade. This means that each student in our class will still have the same expectation of homework (1 page of math and 1 page of language arts–reading comprehension this week), but the pages will look different.

In math this week, we are focusing on the following skills:

  • Different ways to write numbers
  • Different names for numbers
  • Problem-solving with tens and ones
  • Counting patterns up to 100

In grammar this week, we are focusing on the following skills (and this work will be done in Centers):

  • More practice with sorting nouns
  • More practice with common nouns and proper nouns
  • Alphabetical order

In writing this week, we are focusing on the following:

  • The elements of a complete sentence (subject & predicate)

I am looking forward to a great week!

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Spirit Week – Professional Day!

Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve posted. This week is Spirit Week at our school, and today is “Professional Day.” Students were encouraged to dress professionally, like a doctor, lawyer, nurse, etc. I decided think a little differently and dressed up as an entrepreneur / Founder and CEO of a tech startup company. I’ve been having a fantastic time explaining to my class that an entrepreneur is someone who solves problems in the world by starting a business. Also, since I’m dressed as a tech entrepreneur, we are learning about coding today! This morning, for an alternative Morning Meeting (after our usual reading from Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up . . . hopefully our class will do a poetry project related to these readings soon!), we watched some videos about kid entrepreneurs and the importance of learning to code in today’s world! Check out the videos we watched below.