We have a lot coming up in 2nd grade and at New Prospect over the next week.
Message from Ms. McLeod-Next Monday we have Tracy McConaghie, an excellent local counselor, is hosting a parent workshop in the media center @ 11am. The topic is "Setting limits & avoiding power struggles. A flier came home about this event in Thursday papers this week.
Relay for Life- Here is the QR code for our school’s Relay for Life team -
Snowflakes and Hotcakes- Saturday from 8:30-11:00- This is fun school event where you can enjoy a great breakfast and win some awesome prizes!
In Thursday papers this week you should have also received a Progress Skills Checklist and STAR parent reports. Please look these over and send the signed envelope back to school. The reports are yours to keep.
Homework
Monday- Thursday- Read 15 minutes – log- due Friday
Tuesday and Thursday- Math homework
Wednesday- Adverb homework
Math
Next week will continue our learning about shapes by studying 3-d shapes. Not only will we learn about the different types of 3-D shapes, we will also learn about faces, edges and vertices in relationship to the different 3- D shapes.
The quiz on 2-D and 3-D shapes is scheduled for Thursday, March 3, 2016.
IXL skills for this standard:
Geometry
1. T.1Identify 2-dimensional shapes
2. T.2Identify 3-dimensional shapes
3. T.3Identify 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes
4. T.4Count sides and angles
5. T.5Count edges, vertices, and faces
6. T.6Compare sides and angles
7. T.7Compare edges, vertices, and faces
Standard-
2.G.1 - Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. (Sizes are compared directly or visually, not compared by measuring.)
Writing
I love the work the students have done so far in our poetry unit. They are really surprising me with the ideas that they are thinking of and how they are using their poet’s eye to look at familiar objects and ideas in new ways. I can’t wait to see them continue to grow as poets.
So far we have learned about using a poet’s eye to see things in new ways, how to use line breaks to change the sound and rhythm of our poems. Next week we will look at taking a big idea or a big feeling and working to convey that feeling using a small moment within a poem.
Students are applying what they have seen other poets do in their poems and I am so proud of them.
Toward the end of next week students will choose a poem to turn in for a classwork grade. I will be looking to see if they wrote a poem about something meaningful to them, stayed on topic, and made their topic clear from the beginning of the poem.
Grammar
Next week we will continue to discuss adverbs and how to use them in our writing.
Standard- L.2.1.e - Conventions of Standard English: Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
Science
Monday, February 29, 2016 is our matter quiz. Students completed a study guide in class and should be brining that home to use to help prepare. They will also be allowed to use their science books to help them get ready for the quiz. All of the matter chapter as well as the chapters on changing matter will be covered by the quiz.
On Tuesday, March 1 we will begin our next science unit on energy.
Energy makes change; it does things for us. It moves cars along the road and boats over the water. It bakes a cake in the oven and keeps ice frozen in the freezer. It plays our favorite songs on the radio and lights our homes. Energy makes our bodies grow and allows our minds to think. Scientists define energy as the ability to do work.
S2P2 - Students will identify sources of energy and how the energy is used.
S2P2.a - Identify sources of light energy, heat energy, and energy of motion.
S2P2.b - Describe how light, heat, and motion energy are used
Reading
This week ended our two week study of poetry. Students learned about figurative language, metaphors, repetition, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration. They found it in books and they have been experimenting with it in their own pieces of poetry.
Next week we will shift our focus to folktales, fables and fairytales.
These are fun books to read and are a great way to review story structures as well as challenge students to look deeper into their books to find and understand the meaning or the lesson in the story.
Standard: RL.2.2 - Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Have a great weekend!
Message from Ms. McLeod-Next Monday we have Tracy McConaghie, an excellent local counselor, is hosting a parent workshop in the media center @ 11am. The topic is "Setting limits & avoiding power struggles. A flier came home about this event in Thursday papers this week.
Relay for Life- Here is the QR code for our school’s Relay for Life team -
Snowflakes and Hotcakes- Saturday from 8:30-11:00- This is fun school event where you can enjoy a great breakfast and win some awesome prizes!
In Thursday papers this week you should have also received a Progress Skills Checklist and STAR parent reports. Please look these over and send the signed envelope back to school. The reports are yours to keep.
Homework
Monday- Thursday- Read 15 minutes – log- due Friday
Tuesday and Thursday- Math homework
Wednesday- Adverb homework
Math
Next week will continue our learning about shapes by studying 3-d shapes. Not only will we learn about the different types of 3-D shapes, we will also learn about faces, edges and vertices in relationship to the different 3- D shapes.
The quiz on 2-D and 3-D shapes is scheduled for Thursday, March 3, 2016.
IXL skills for this standard:
Geometry
1. T.1Identify 2-dimensional shapes
2. T.2Identify 3-dimensional shapes
3. T.3Identify 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes
4. T.4Count sides and angles
5. T.5Count edges, vertices, and faces
6. T.6Compare sides and angles
7. T.7Compare edges, vertices, and faces
Standard-
2.G.1 - Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. (Sizes are compared directly or visually, not compared by measuring.)
Writing
I love the work the students have done so far in our poetry unit. They are really surprising me with the ideas that they are thinking of and how they are using their poet’s eye to look at familiar objects and ideas in new ways. I can’t wait to see them continue to grow as poets.
So far we have learned about using a poet’s eye to see things in new ways, how to use line breaks to change the sound and rhythm of our poems. Next week we will look at taking a big idea or a big feeling and working to convey that feeling using a small moment within a poem.
Students are applying what they have seen other poets do in their poems and I am so proud of them.
Toward the end of next week students will choose a poem to turn in for a classwork grade. I will be looking to see if they wrote a poem about something meaningful to them, stayed on topic, and made their topic clear from the beginning of the poem.
Grammar
Next week we will continue to discuss adverbs and how to use them in our writing.
Standard- L.2.1.e - Conventions of Standard English: Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
Science
Monday, February 29, 2016 is our matter quiz. Students completed a study guide in class and should be brining that home to use to help prepare. They will also be allowed to use their science books to help them get ready for the quiz. All of the matter chapter as well as the chapters on changing matter will be covered by the quiz.
On Tuesday, March 1 we will begin our next science unit on energy.
Energy makes change; it does things for us. It moves cars along the road and boats over the water. It bakes a cake in the oven and keeps ice frozen in the freezer. It plays our favorite songs on the radio and lights our homes. Energy makes our bodies grow and allows our minds to think. Scientists define energy as the ability to do work.
S2P2 - Students will identify sources of energy and how the energy is used.
S2P2.a - Identify sources of light energy, heat energy, and energy of motion.
S2P2.b - Describe how light, heat, and motion energy are used
Reading
This week ended our two week study of poetry. Students learned about figurative language, metaphors, repetition, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration. They found it in books and they have been experimenting with it in their own pieces of poetry.
Next week we will shift our focus to folktales, fables and fairytales.
These are fun books to read and are a great way to review story structures as well as challenge students to look deeper into their books to find and understand the meaning or the lesson in the story.
Standard: RL.2.2 - Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Have a great weekend!