Welcome back! Hope you had a great Spring Break! Important Dates: 4/14-5/10: Milestones Testing (3rd-5th) 5/14: Spring Showcase 5/17: Field Day Science: We will be continuing to talk about life cycles. The week after break we will be creating games using our life cycle knowledge. They will have these games out and around during our Spring Showcase in May. Writing: We will be starting a brand new unit. We will be focused on persuasive letters. Across the first section, they will be drafting letters about the characters they've met in fictional books, formulating opinions and supporting their ideas, providing reasons, and using their details and examples from the text to support their claims. Reading: We will also be starting a brand new unit. We will be focused on reading across a series of books covering the same characters. Students will begin reading a series with their reading partners, collecting information about the stars of their books (main characters). Math 3.1- We will use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems. (3OA3) 3.2- After break we will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers with halves and fourths of an inch. Students will show the data by making a line plot. (3MD 4) Test on Monday 4/15/19. Study guide will go home on Wednesday! Thank you, Mrs. Flaherty
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aThe Field Trip is this Tuesday, 3/26.
If you would like to pack your student a lunch for the day, Please place this in brown paper bag with their name or a Ziploc bag with their name and a disposable drink. We will be throwing away all trash at the site and will not be carrying any lunch boxes, drinks or food back on the bus with us. Our wonderful media center will be graciously hosting a FREE author visit on 3/29. Sherry Crelin (her granddaughter is in Mrs. Ison’s class) for Friday, 3/29 at 9:30 a.m. and may go until 10:20 a.m. Her book is: “My Chickens Lay Eggs” and is about raising chickens in their backyard. She will read the story; discuss the writing process; important things to include in writing a story (perspective, topic, audience, characters, place, time, etc). She will give each student a handout so they can create their own story. She’ll be bringing a chicken! The students are going to be so excited, especially after the field trip. Important Events: 3/25-3/29: Finishing up Reading and Writing Unit 3/26: Field Trip (Wear a blue shirt) 3/29: Author Visit 4/1-4/5: Spring Break! Reading: We will be finishing up our reading units on Non-Fiction book clubs. We will be reviewing Monday-Wednesday. To practice at home, have your student read an informational book and have them explain to you: - Does the author try to persuade you in any way? How? -What new information did you learn? How can you apply this information to an issue or problem in today's world? -Were there any photographs, illustrations, charts, graphs, or diagrams that were important? Explain why you believe they were important. -As you read, what did you learn that you did not know before? What surprised you? Explain why it surprised you? **Test on Thursday** Writing: We will be starting writing more non-fiction and describing experiments and new information in new ways. The students picked a topic they knew a lot about and have been focusing on how to explain that topic. Science: We will be starting discussing Life cycles. We will be focused on different types of Life cycles. We will discuss dogs/cats, frogs, butterflies, plants, and chickens. We will also be creating projects after the break to show at Spring Showcase in May! Sta Math 3.1- quiz on Thursday- The quiz will be over multiplying and dividing. (3.O.A.1 and 3.O.A. 2) We will review all week. Students may use strategies taught in class to help them: arrays, number line, and grouping. 3.2- quiz on Thursday- fractions- we will review this week. Student will have to identify correct equivalent fractions and place fractions on a number line. Have a wonderful week! Mrs. Flaherty Upcoming Dates:
3/19: Brain Building Day 3/21: Report Cards go home 3/25-3/29: Finishing up Reading and Writing Unit 3/26: Field Trip (Wear Blue shirts) 4/1-4/5: Spring Break! (Mrs. Flaherty's birthday) Reading: This week students create informational posters to teach other students about their non-fiction books. On Friday we did a gallery walk to show off the wonderful work they did! Writing: This week students built catapults and did trails. Students then had to write up a lab report to go with the experiment. Next week, students will develop their own experiment and reports. Science: We will be starting discussing Life cycles. We will be focused on different types of Life cycles. We will discuss dogs/cats, frogs, butterflies, plants, and chickens. We will also be creating projects after the break to show at Spring Showcase in May! Stay tuned. Math: 3.1- We will continue working on interpreting whole number quotients of whole numbers EX 56 divided by 8 3.2- We will continue working on equivalent fractions. Thank you, Mrs. Flaherty Field Trip on 3/26, Form due 3/13!
On Thursday, I sent a lot of important documents to see and sign and return. On 3/26, we will have a field trip to Warbington Farms! We will be starting Life cycles unit discussing the different life cycles of different creatures. Some of these creatures are frogs, butterflies, plants, etc. We will spend the whole day at Warbington. We will be leaving promptly at 7:45 so please make sure you have your student here on time that day for school. Also if you have purchased a blue field trip shirt, please put that t-shirt on your student. If you do not have that shirt, please place them in a blue t-shirt so we can see all of 2nd grade across multiple students and areas. If you would like to pack your student a lunch for the day, please place this in brown paper bag with their name or a Ziploc bag with their name and a disposable drink. We will be throwing away all trash at the site and will not be carrying any lunch boxes, drinks or food back on the bus with us. Upcoming Dates: 3/12: Kindergarten Round Up 3/13: Video Permission Form for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 3:13: Field Trip Permission Form 3/15: Shamrockin' Shindig 3/25-3/29: Finishing up Reading and Writing Unit 3/26: Field Trip Reading: We have been reading our non-fiction books in our book clubs. This week we will be changing up our book clubs and learning about a new topic and learn new information. Ask your students what topic they are an expert in! Writing: We have gone a step further into lab reports. We changing one things from our teacher led experiment and then tested that experiment. Social Studies: We finished up our last important people to Georgia, Juliette Gordon Low and Jimmy Carter. We will be starting a week long health unit next week. **WE WILL NOT HAVE A TEST!** Health: We will be starting a new unit in Health over nutrition and healthy eating habits. We will be learning about a balanced plate, as well as eating a rainbow (meaning eating all the colors of the rainbow at least once per day) Math 3.1- We will be starting a new unit this week. We will begin by looking at equations and arrays. 3.2 We will be starting a new unit this week. The focus will continue to be fractions. We will practice placing fractions on number lines and equivalent fractions. Thank you! Mrs. Flaherty Reading
This week we continued to read in our non-fiction book club groups. Each club got to pick there topic and create KWL charts. The students then shared their learning with their club. We also worked on different skills to help us understand tricky parts of non-fiction reading. We will continue this work next week. Writing Writing like scientist is the focus of this unit. Each group is developing a question and hypothesis to test in class. Students have to write out the materials needed and procedures before conducting the trails. Students will complete the trails and write up their results and summary next week. Phonics- next week we will review red words - no quiz Social studies- This week we continued to read and complete activities about Jimmy Carter. We also started to learn about Juliette Gordon Low. Math- 3.1 TEST on Wednesday - place value, adding and subtracting up to 1000 and graphing- study guide went home Thursday 3.2 TEST on Wednesday - shapes and attributes, partitioning into equal parts, finding the perimeter, and measuring to the nearest quarter inch. Have a great weekend! Mrs, Flaherty |
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