I hope that your extended weekend was memorable and lots of fun!
Here are some important dates for the upcoming month:
Tuesday, December 5 – Kaukauna Holiday Parade
Thursday, December 7 – Pizza, PJs, and Publishing Family Night 5:30-7:00
- Pajama Day
Tuesday, December 12 - No School (inservice for teachers)
Thursday, December 21– 2nd Grade AM Field trip to Barlow Planetarium (Permission slip will be coming home Monday.)
December 22-January 1 – No School Winter Break
Tuesday, January 2 – Classes Resume
Curriculum Updates:
We are continuing to grow our knowledge through reading and writing nonfiction. Reading ~ This week will be spent learning how to connect information across books on the same topic. We will be noticing how information is connected, similarities and differences among books on the same topics, and how to use the information from several books to retell about the topics.
Writing - Editing, revising, and setting goals are the big topics for our writing lessons this week. Rereading our own writing to find places we can make our writing stronger is not always easy for second grade writers. Our lessons will break up this process and show students that all writers need to practice this skill.
Math - We are working on identifying each coin and knowing the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and dollars this week. We will also work on recording the value of 114 cents as $1.14. Lessons will also involve counting mixed coins such as 3 dimes, 2 nickels and 3 pennies. This is a skill you can work on at home as well.
Science ~ Orbit, rotation, and revolution are three key vocabulary words we will focus on this week. We will study what these words mean and how they relate to our solar system.It is an exciting week in science! Students will choose a planet to begin researching. Groups will decide what we would need to learn about each planet and will create a research template from there. This research will happen over the course of the next few weeks.
Have a GREAT week!
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