Like last week, this week will go very fast, with different special events. Mrs. Weise, our music teacher, has arranged for a wonderful children’s opera to be performed at Longfellow on Wednesday morning, paid for by our PTO (and all of you who support the fund-raisers!) And although we celebrate Halloween with a Parade and a party at the tail end of the week, Halloween excitement will pervade the children’s thinking. So… there is no Mad Minute homework this week! Instead, the Study Guide for Unit 2 of math will be due by Monday.
This week we will take our comprehensive Open Court unit assessments on our Kindness Unit, to see how your child is independently practicing the phonics, comprehension and literary analysis skills we’ve been working on. The vocabulary definitions that came home last Friday should be practiced daily, for the fill-in-the blank vocabulary test this Friday.
The first, oral book report of the year is to be presented to the class this week, preferably before Friday. This means to tell the class a summary of the book (I’ll have the story map outline posted, to prompt you); showing the class the book, and bringing in a creative project you made that relates to the book. Knowing that an oral report is a big deal for many second graders, I give a lot of support to them, especially this first time. Practice at home so you will feel more relaxed in front of your classmates! Parents, remember the Book Report info can be downloaded from the right side of my class blog.
In Math we will finish up Unit 2 on subtraction & “algebra”.
We’ll try to get to our Science activities on Erosion & Weathering this week; meanwhile, our compost is definitely quite active!
In Social Studies, we travel to South America tomorrow for our next Tasting.
Regarding Halloween: costumes will be put on at lunchtime, no weapons allowed. We will have a 4-hour academic morning, so bring a healthy snack to eat mid-morning, as lunch does not begin until 12:00. Please contact Lori Bradford, if you’d like to offer help for our party, (ldemain@sbcglobal.net; 708-763-0452).
Homework summary
Daily: practice Kindness vocabulary, read for 20 minutes
Due tomorrow: optional book orders
Due Wednesday: Spelling workbook, pages 38-41
Due any day this week: oral book report, with book & creative project
Due next Monday: Unit 2 math study guide
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