Second Grade Happenings November 13-17

Whoa! What a change in weather we've had in the past few days. It is starting to feel like Thanksgiving is right around the corner!


What's Coming Up?

Tuesday, November 14 - Conferences
Friday, November 17 - Half Day - Dismissal at 11:30
Wednesday-Friday, November 22-24 - No School


Curricular Updates

Reading - Nonfiction reading continues in second grade! We will focus on reading and using the "lingo" (vocabulary) of the books we are reading this week. Our goal is to 'Talk the talk! Read to Learn the 

Lingo'.  We will be learning to use the text features, everything on the page, and comparisons to better understand new keywords.

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 will continue to learn and practice strategies to add two 2-digit numbers this week. We will 

also be working on identifying each coin and knowing the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and dollars 

this week. We will 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. 

Content - Second graders will be learning about the solar system! 


Have a great week!