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Second Grade News​
Dec. 4 - Winter Wonderland 6-8:30pm
Dec. 5 - Winter Wonderland 10am - 1pm
Dec. 18 - Winter Party
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Friday December 4, 2015
Reading/Writing Workshop
Students have been enjoying the world of Shel Silverstein with our study of poetry. We have been reading and
analyzing aspects of poems with a focus on visualization and words authors use to give details. The children are
also being exposed to a wide variety of poems. (Bio-Poems and Acrostic poems were two that we discussed this
week). The children are applying these concepts with written expression and are creating their own collection of
poems. Students have been discussing JUICY words during language arts. Adjectives and Adverbs are specifically
being acknowledged so that the students are able to give a more elaborate written sentences. The children also
enjoyed describing their Thanksgiving holiday with a Weekend News story. Students were able to sequence events
use transitions to share traditions and memories.
Math
In math, students returned back to graphing. Thus trimester instead of reading graphs, they gathered data and
created their own graphs. Students had to determine a good question that they would survey their peers. After
determining their question, they were able to gather data. Students created both pictographs and bar graphs to
display their data. Ask your child which answer had the most votes. Next week we will spiral back to skip counting
numbers to a thousand, and take a test on skip counting Friday, December 11th.
Word Study
This week in Word Study, students were introduced to 12 new words. We are focusing on common suffixes (-ed and
-er), homophones, identifying real life connections between words and their use, as well as continuing to practice
commonly misspelled words. Students will be tested on the following 12 words on Friday, December 11th: ​
of, from,
our, saw, their, there, they’re, mailed, jumped, needed, reader, learner.
Social Studies
We began the week by reading a short passage about timelines. Students were encouraged to use the “close
reading” strategy of underlining answers to comprehension questions found in the text. Second graders created
their very own timeline of important inventions in history as well. They were assessed over their ability to create a
timeline in sequential order using important dates from their own lives. We learned about the days of the week and
the months of the year in Social Studies this week too! Students were tested
over this (days of the week/months of the year) with an assessment on Friday.
Specials:
Monday - B (PE)
Tuesday - C (Music)
Wednesday - D (Art)
Thursday - A (Library)
Friday - B (PE)
We, the students of Thomas Elementary, proudly practice the 7 Habits of Happy Kids. 1. Be Proactive
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Think Win WIn ​
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Synergize 2. Begin with the End in Mind ​
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Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood 3. Put First Things First ​
6.​
Synergize