Hello families...I hope everyone has had a great week! Our Fall Celebration went fantastic! Thanks for the items everyone sent in...the kids loved making their activities and of course their spider cupcakes. Our next celebration day is the week before we leave for Holiday Break. I'll be sending a letter home prior early next month for donations of items for that day.
The students have finished writing their final copies of their Veteran's Day letters, and have started decorating the "jackets". Since we paused on making the turkey books last week, we will continue writing and creating that craft tomorrow and Friday. Next week, the students will be writing their second quarter sample for their writing portfolio.
We have also completed our unit on counting money up to $100, and have started on identifying and labeling polygons (plane shapes, or 2D shapes. This afternoon the class identified regular and irregular polygons, and colored "pictures" of various polygons in specific colors. We'll continue this lesson this week and into early next week.
We have also started on a new unit for reading- non-fiction text features. We covered diagrams, photographs, and photograph caption. We'll continue this unit tomorrow and Friday, as well as into early next week. This is a crucial unit for the Common Core standards (now officially renamed Arizona College and Career Readiness standards)- as a lot of the standards are non-fiction text based. These type of text are what students will see as they go through their schooling and into the career world. It can be a tough unit, because the students are already so used to fiction text. However, I have noticed a lot of kiddos love learning about animals- this is a great place for them to start with non-fiction.
We have continued our Social Studies unit of the American Revolution and the 13 colonies with Taxation without Representation- we'll be doing a fun activity (well, I think it's fun...the class may not!) tomorrow in class. This activity always tends to bring the whole concept of taxing home.
News
Nov. 11 Veteran's Day, no school
Nov. 20 Teacher in-service, 1/2 day early release
Nov. 22 Progress reports go home
Nov. 27 - 29 Thanksgiving holiday break, no school
Thank you for all you do!
Elizabeth Townsend
PDS
Second Grade
Elizabeth.townsend@svps.k12.az.us
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