Weekly Update - May 10th

Happy Zoo Trip Friday!!

Next week we will be working on the following topics:

ELA: We will continue Journeys for the LAST week and review story structure stew and predicting. We will review multiple meaning words and contractions. Our spelling focus will be on words with oo, ew, ou. We are reading Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach...we hope to finish it this week!

Math: Next week we will continue with Saxon focusing on estimating, quarters, rounding to the nearest 10, finding half of a set with even/odd numbers, measuring using feet and inches.

 

Social Studies: We will continue our unit on biomes. Students learned about freshwater habitats and mountains last week. This week they will be learning about wetlands and prairies.    

Homework: As a second grade team we have decided to open up the rest of Study Island and have the students work at their own pace. We would like all assignments due by June 3rd. To make the homework load a little more bearable, there will no longer be spelling or handwriting for the year. Students will only have Study Island and 60 minutes of reading each week.
 

Friend of the Week: Denise Vu
Click on this link to see the F.O.W. schedule for the entire year: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai_iR7kLmmMpdGw0RC1hZmlIeWtPWDd3NTE0QmV4SVE#gid=0

 

Reminders/F.Y.I:  

• P.E. days next week are Monday, Wednesday, Friday. 
• MAP testing will be Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next week (May 13-15). Please make sure your child is at school these days!!
• Reflection Folders will come home Monday instead of today since students are not bringing backpacks to school today. Please go over these with your child and sign and return them by Wednesday the 15th.
• Celebration: Students filled our marble jar again! They have voted on a popcorn and movie party! We will be celebrating on Friday the 17th and watching A Bug's Life that correlates with the insect unit we just finished.
• May 27th: Memorial Day Holiday (No School)