February 16th

Thanks to everyone for coming to conferences this week!
I really enjoyed meeting with everyone! I cannot believe it is already February. This year is flying by! It was a busy week for a short week.
Here is what we learned this week...
Reading- For shared reading, we have been learning about inferring. We know how to make smart guesses about what is happening or how characters feel using our schema and clues from the text.
In reading groups we are focusing on nonfiction books. We know how important it is to make sure we understand what words mean and comprehend what we are reading before moving on!

Writing- we wrote letters this week to different businesses for our service learning project asking for donations for our silent auction. We included the 5 parts of a letter, and we also learned where our commas should go (in the date, after the greeting, and after the closing). Today we discussed what letters should be capital (the word I, beginning of every sentence, pronouns, and the date, greeting, closing, and signature.) Next week we will begin working on persuasive letters (fair warning to parents...I'm sure you will be receiving one :) )

Math- we finished our unit on adding and subtracting money. It was a short unit, but students grasped it quickly since we just finished our units on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers.  Ms. Weber is now teaching us all about place value up to 1,000.

Science- this week we learned about volcanoes!

Don't forget...
*No school tomorrow and Monday
*Next week (Thursday night) is our 2nd grade music program. Please arrive st 6pm. The show will be from 6:30-7:30pm.

Here is what is happening this week!

Reading- we are working on figuring out what words means using context clues. Ms. Weber has been showing us a variety of books to work on this concept.

Writing- We are learning the 5 parts of a letter: date, greeting, body, closing, and signature

We have been practicing writing letters to get ready for persuasive writing!

Science- We are learning about slow versus fast changes over the Earth's surface.

Please bring in a shoe box as soon as possible so we can decorate them on Monday!