This week:
Second grade poetry slam: We hope you can join us THIS Thursday at 1:00 in building D for the second grade celebration of poetry. We've been learning about poems, writing poems, and reading poems. All three second grade classes will be mixed up and put into a classroom to share and listen to each other's original poems. Later in the week, we will send home a note about which room/group your second grader will be in. If you cannot attend, don't worry; your second grader will bring home their published poem and they can read/recite it for you.
Firwood's fiftieth birthday: This Friday is the 50th day of school and we are celebrating 50 years of Firwood being on this site. We will have some fun with the number 50.
We started our next unit of study: Water! We will learn all about water's properties, states of matter, forms of precipitation, the water cycle, AND MORE!
We are working on regrouping in math, as well as dabbling in some more multiplication.
BOOK ORDERS ARE DUE THIS FRIDAY. You can place an order by clicking here, or complete the paper order forms sent home weeks ago. If you would like me to hold your order off to the side (if they're gifts, etc.), please send me an email, and I'll put it in the office for you to pick up at your convenience.
Conferences: I will see most of you this week for parent-teacher-conferences. If you are in possession of your child's pink Progress Portfolio, please send it before our conference, or bring it with you, so I can put more important artifacts in it!
Firwood Bazaar is this Saturday!
The past couple of weeks:
We've been working on poetry! We've been working on regrouping (carrying from ones' to tens' place when you add)! We've been working on multiplication! We've been working on keeping the room kind, constructive, and positive, by writing lots of compliments.
Pre-Halloween Black Light Fun Run (that was last month, Mr. C! Goodness!)
Circles and Stars: an easy game to practice multiplication:
Roll a die once: that's how many groups to draw. Roll it again, that's how many stars to draw in each group. Multiplication is "equal groups of;" it is also repeated addition.
Regrouping (AKA "carrying") depends on the understanding of place value and that no number bigger than nine is allowed in a place. Once you have ten or more, you have to regroup them into tens and put the tens in the tens place.
We've also been enjoying the computer lab, working on learning games from http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/ com.
