Together we learn, together we succeed, and together we will
make a positive difference!
Second Grade News​
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Friday,April 15th, 2016
April 28 - Take your Child to Work Day
May 6 - Thomas Movie Night, 6pm
Reading/Writing Workshop​​
Students continue to apply 4 goals during reading time.
Students have
been making personal connections to enhance understanding. Checking for understanding is also an important part
of comprehension. We have been having conversations as well as writing responses to what we have read. Students
are also becoming experts with identifying the main idea and finding supporting details. Students are engaged with
book selections, the purpose of reading , and in class comprehension assignments. During writing time students
have been focusing on compound sentences.
Math - ​
Students revisited money this week. Students began the week by becoming acquainted again with coins
and their value. They added groups of coins together and learned about the importance of a decimal when writing
money into their notebooks. Students were then given some real life situations to solve in math. They entered
“Dave‛s Diner” and needed to take customers orders and determine their total. By Friday, students created their
own menus and were taking orders for their own restaurant! Students had a great time this week learning about
money and can always use extra practice at home with this tricky topic.
Word Study-​
Second graders read their K-2 high frequency words to their teacher this week.
We were
happy to see growth with many students and also happy to see many students were able to retain reading all their
high frequency words correctly. Please make sure to continue to practice writing the K-2 high frequency words at
home as students will be tested over these beginning Monday. Thanks for your home support!
Social Studies-​
This week in Social Studies, students started off the week with our AMAZING Wax
Museum presentations! The kiddos did an amazing job presenting what they‛ve learned with confidence. We hope
you enjoyed visiting our museum on Monday! Throughout the rest of the week, we learned about how humans can
both positively and negatively alter the physical environment. Students participated in a see/think/wonder thinking
routine with a picture of a landfill, read aloud ​
The Little House​
and reflected on how people changed the
environment surrounding the little house, discussed the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) and applied those 3Rs to our
personal life (and how we can improve both at home and school), and also read ​
The Lorax.​
We will be wrapping up
this unit next week.
Specials:
Monday - D (Art)
Tuesday -A (Music)
Wednesday -B (Library)
Thursday - C (PE)
Friday D (Art)
We, the students of Thomas Elementary, proudly practice the 7 Habits of Happy Kids.
1. Be Proactive
4.​
Think Win WIn
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7.​
Synergize
2. Begin with the End in Mind ​
5.​
Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
3. Put First Things First
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6.​
Synergize