January 15, 2021

WOW, what a busy week! This week flew by and second graders worked very hard. 

ELA

Second graders have done lots of reading this week. Thank you so much for reading with them at home...it makes a big difference. We are working on reading comprehension and voice as we read.

We had fun with opinion/persuasive writing on Thursday and Friday. It always helps when it involves cookies. We described our favorite cookie and then had to think of reasons that supported the opinion. We also tasted 2 cookies and we are now working on persuasion.

We had fun doing a compare and contrast with, "Snowmen at Night" and "Snowmen Through the Year". After we read it was fun to create our own scene about snowmen. Second graders did a great job writing a story about their picture. They are working very hard to write stories with strong beginnings, middles, and endings.

Math

Can I just say that your children are math rockstars?! We have an eighty minute math block and they work VERY hard! We have been working on money and adding double digits. On Friday we did some hot chocolate math and enjoyed some yummy hot chocolate. I love how our math program turns them into "math thinkers'. They amaze me daily!

Science

This week we learned about landforms and erosion. Second graders did some cool experiments to help them see what erosion and landslides can do to our land. They became engineers and tried to create a way to stop a landslide. 

Next, we will create a landform and do our first research!