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Please return the New Student Enrollment Survey: I am still missing a few. Coming Up: Tuesday, March 10–ChickFilA Spirit day, all day! Mention you are from Dolvin and the school will get credit. Mention your home room and the class with the most participation wins a chicken biscuit party!! Weekly Topics: Math - On - Unit 2.4: Applying Base Ten Understanding. Click here for a link to the family letter explaining the unit. Subtraction and Addition Word Problems, using the inverse to find an answer, missing addenda, data and graphing. Finishing up this unit. ADV- Unit 3.2: Developing and understanding multiplication, faster way to add, modeling with words, pictures, arrays and repeated addition. Accelerated - Finding the area of a shape given its dimensions; drawing the dimensions of a shape to solve area problems; finding the perimeter of a polygon, measuring objects to the nearest ¼ inch, dividing shapes Word Study - Words Their Way Sort 23 (r influenced vowels again) -ir, ire, ier words ELA -Reading Informational: Author’s Purpose for Informational text: Is the author explaining, answering, or describing?; beginning main idea of multi-paragraph texts Vocabulary - Compound Words ELA- Writing - Opinion Writing Grammar - commas and reflexive pronouns Social Studies: Famous Leaders in Georgia— MLK, Jackie Robinson, and Juliette Gordon Low
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Thank you for coming to our 2nd grade musical! They did such a great job, and I am so proud of their hard work!
Thursday Oct. 30- Sign and Returns will go home; Progress Skills Checklists will also go home. Math - On - Unit 2.2 Becoming Fluent with Addition and Subtraction. Click here to access Unit 2.2 Family Letter; subtraction strategies (number lines, hundred chart, modeling). Adv-- Fractions and partitioning shapes. Accelerated - Multiplying with arrays and fact family triangles; learning multiplication facts; relationship between multiplication and division; zero, identity, cumulative, and associative properties Spelling - Sort 9 -- -ck, -ke, -k words ELA -Reading On/Adv: Main Idea within an informational text. Vocabulary - context clues, synonyms ELA- Writing - All about Me informational writing Grammar - Collective Nouns Science: Finishing Unit. Beginning Social Studies Unit on Georgia Beginnings (Creek and Cherokee Indians). Oct. 18: Dolvin's Walk to School Day--it will also be "Dress Like a PE Teacher" day. I suspect I will see many white t-shirts and knee socks… from Ms. Cooke.
Oct. 24: Second Grade Play (save the date!)-- Info should be arriving soon from Ms. Endicott for audition results. Please email her if you have questions. Weekly Topics: Math - On - Unit 2.2 Becoming Fluent with Addition and Subtraction. Click here to access Unit 2.2 Family Letter; adding with base ten blocks with and without regrouping Adv-- Identifying plane and solid shapes plus their attributes. Accelerated - Multiplying with arrays and fact family triangles, learning multiplication facts 6 - 9, relationship between multiplication and division Spelling - Sort 8 -- long a, e, i, o, u, sounds.. ELA -Reading On/Adv: Informational Unit begins. We are focusing on text features (headings, captions, glossaries, indexes, table of contents, etc.) Vocabulary - context clues, synonyms ELA- Writing - Beginning Informational Writing: All about Me Grammar - adjectives and adverbs Science: Why we have seasons, characteristics of stars, patterns of the sun and moon, observations, collecting data
Important Dates:
Oct. 2: International Parent Q&A with Superintendent Looney 10:00am, Dolvin Media Center Oct. 10-11: Teacher Workdays (No School) Oct. 13: Columbus Day (No School) Oct. 24: Second Grade Play (save the date!) Weekly Topics: Math - On - Data review-- bar graphs and picture graphs; 2.1 Summative Assessment this week; Begin Unit 2.2 Becoming Fluent with Addition and Subtraction. Click here to access Unit 2.2 Family Letter. Adv-- Triple and Double digit Subtraction with regrouping Accelerated - Multiplying with arrays and fact family triangles, learning multiplication facts 6 - 9, relationship between multiplication and division Spelling - Sort 7 (short and long vowel e)-- we will have a formative test on Spelling Sorts 5-7. The homework sheet will have the sorts for practice. We will test on Wednesday, Oct. 8th. ELA -Reading On/Adv: Fables/Folktales Unit begins. Learning the characteristics of a fables/folktales, and understanding the central message; Summative assessment on story structure (beginning/middle/end) Vocabulary - context clues, synonyms ELA- Writing - narrative writing; body paragraphs; editing and revising Grammar - adjectives Science: Characteristics of stars, patterns of the sun and moon, observations, collecting data Important Dates: Sept. 9-13: Donations for Dorian Relief (see below) Sept. 9-12: Book Fair in Media Center Sept. 11: School Store Sept. 19: Carmen Deedy Author’s Visit Oct. 11-16: Auditions for Play Oct. 24: Second Grade Play (save the date!) Weekly Topics: Math On - Place value with hundreds charts, number lines; standard form/ expanded form/word form of numbers. Adv-- Triple and Double digit addition with regrouping Accelerated - Creating bar graphs and picture graphs & base ten number review up to thousands. Also, subtracting and adding 3 digit numbers. Spelling - Sort 4 (short and long vowel i) ELA -Reading who/what/when/where/why/how questions; Beginning/Middle/End of stories Vocabulary - context clues, synonyms ELA- Writing - narrative writing Grammar - nouns Social Studies: Georgia’s rivers and regions (Piedmont, Valley and Ridge, Coastal Plain, Appalachian Plateau, Blue Ridge) August 26-30, 2019
Important Dates: Sept. 2: Labor Day (No School) Sept. 4: Curriculum Night (2nd/3rd) Sept. 5: Signed Papers come home Sept. 6: K-2 Ice Cream Social Sept. 9-12: Book Fair in Media Center Weekly Topics: Math On - Understanding that a 3 digit number represents hundreds, tens, and ones (706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, 6 ones); Bundling tens to make 100; Adv-- Accelerated - Creating bar graphs and picture graphs & base ten number review up to thousands. Spelling - Sort 3 (short a and long a words--Homework will begin Sept. 3). ELA -Reading: who/what/when/where/why/how questions; Beginning/Middle/End of stories Vocabulary - context clues, synonyms ELA- Writing - narrative writing Grammar - capitalization Social Studies: Georgia beginnings; landforms |
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