Writing

Students continue to work on their google slides presentation using their Informational Report research topic.

Guided Reading

In reading this week the main focus was comparing and contrasting animals, characters, settings, problems, and solutions within a story or within several stories. Students also compared and contrasted frogs and fish and students compared and contrasted penguins and parrots.

Math

This week in math students have been working on:

• adding 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, 100 less onto numbers up to 1000
• adding 3-digit numbers together using an open number line 
• adding 3-digit numbers together using base-ten pieces
• breaking apart 3-digit numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones to add together(known as partial sums)

Guided Reading

 In reading this week students used a reader's theater script called The Tricky Garden to work on phrasing, dialogue, and to work with antonyms. This reader's theater was a favorite for many students. In May students will spend some time practicing and performing several different plays.

Upcoming Dates

Friday, April 22nd- Wear Blue for Autism Awareness, Last Day to Check Out Library Books

Friday, May 20th- Track & Field Day

Thursday, June 2nd- 2nd Grade Field Trip

Spelling Words

 Week Of:

April 18-22

1. fair

2. unfair

3. happy

4. unhappy

5. load

6. unload

7. fold

8. unfold

9. afraid

10. unafraid

11. likely

12. unlikely

 

Phonics

In phonics this week your child worked on taking adjectives and making them into adverbs by adding the suffix ly. Students learned this week that adverbs tell When, Where, or Why something was done.