Post- Valentine's Day Weekend Week of School

Hi all. I do apologize for not posting last week. Life just got away from me. But I am back and happy to post the goings on in our classroom.

We will take a Reading test this Wednesday and finish up the week with awesome writing projects.
It looks like math tests will occur next week for both grades! We are cruising along.
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1st Grade
Genre: Fantasy
Spelling List
long a words

1. same
2. name
3. gate
4. mate
5. save
6. shave

High Frequency Word List

1. four
2. five
3. over
4. two
5. starts
6. watch
7. into
8. three


2nd Grade
Genre:  Biography

Spelling list        

1. globe
2. oak
3. coast
4. joke
5. below
6. ago
7. moat
8. nose
9. soak
10. cone
11. stove
12. slow

Vocabulary List

1. knowledge
2. curious
3. motion
4. silence
5. illness
6. imitated
7. darkness
8. behavior

Math_____________________________________________________________________________

1st

 We are working on Lessons 5-6 through 5-10 this week. Our focus is on making a ten to help our addition when dealing with adding three or more numbers. We are still working with decade numbers (10, 20, 30, etc.) and adding either ones or tens to those numbers. 

They took a quiz today and it was awesome! Way to go scholars!

2nd Grade

Seconds are working on Lessons 4-16-4-19 this week. They will have homework every night corresponding to the lesson number (i.e. 4-16, 4-17, etc.). 

The math focus is on word problems with unknown addends (50 + ____=123).

Coming up next week two step problems of fun! 

Most of our second graders need to be reminded to read the question thoroughly and understand what is being asked of them in these two step problems.  They just want to use the numbers give to solve the problem, but they must solve a part of the problem in order to solve the main question. 

For example:

Margie has 17 cars. Logan has 9 more cars than Margie. Bonnie has 12 fewer cars than Logan. How many cars does Bonnie have?

1st: Find out how many cars Logan has; 17+9=26 cars

2nd: Then use this info to find out how many cars Bonnie has: 26-12= 14 cars

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Social Studies

We are diving into exploration and trade during the 1400's! The world is getting bigger and bigger! 

We will finish up this chapter in a week and a half and take the big test! Check back for more info to help your student regarding this topic.