Hello Families!
I hope everyone found opportunities to relax and enjoy Spring Break! We will continue to work many of the same units as we head back this week in reading, math, and writing. Thank you for your constant support with daily reading and math homework practice with your children.
We wrapped up our science unit Pebbles. Sand, and Silt with a great visit from Scientist Joe! The class loved it! Our next unit is Organisms, which falls directly with the last unit study of earth materials and organisms that live on earth. After concentrating on science for several weeks, we will head into social studies. More on that later!
In math, our students need to be fluent with numbers up to 10. That means that children should know their doubles, understand making a ten, and counting on one and two more to answer addition and subtraction fast facts automatically. Flash cards serve as a great practice for this. They also need to be fluent solving word problems within 20, understanding what the question is asking- how many more and how many fewer. I try to send home extra homework practice to help with this and I also will get in contact with you if I see a need to work on this more at home. As we continue to work on addition and subtraction, we will use ten frames to solve problems with multiples of ten. These are referred to as decade numbers. Children will be expected to add 10, 20, 30 more or subtract that amount from a given number. Ten frames and number lines are great tools to use, especially the number line, which is used often in second grade.
In reading we are closing up study of different genres and comparing text from informational to fiction to poetry. Book Clubs have been very productive and I have noticed strong team building through conversations and questions they have had with each other in their groups. Students should be able to picture walk through their book to determine what kind of text they will read, what they will learn from it, and have a sense of purpose in their reading.
Ezra Jack Keats was a wonderful children's author with many crafts up his sleeve. We have enjoyed many of his books and charted many good tips. The children have worked hard to implement these ideas into their own Small Moments (stories that really happened). Sharing on the document camera is fun everyday!
I want to thank ALL my volunteers who come to tutor faithfully each morning during literacy and also to ALL of you who donate snacks and class items whenever we are low! You are awesome! Thank you so much!
Well, I am excited to see our class tomorrow! This is always the best time of year for first graders. They have learned so much this school year!
Sincerely,
Sharon Mogilski
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