This afternoon our classroom took the Math M.A.P. (Measures of Academic Progress) assessment. Due to the “cold days” last week, we will take the Reading M.A.P. assessment this Friday, 1/16 in the morning. This reading test was originally scheduled for Friday, 1/9. Here is a little bit about our day: *This morning we “woke up”…
Classroom News
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Monday 1/12
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Monday 1/5
Posted on January 5, 2015Happy 2015! I hope each and every one of you had an enjoyable holiday season. Our 3rd grade class will take their MAP tests later this week and the beginning of next week. The reading MAP assessment will take place this upcoming Friday morning, and the math MAP assessment will be on Monday, 1/12…
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Friday 12/19
Posted on December 19, 2014A big thank you to the parents who set-up and helped out with the holiday party. Also, thank you for those who sent in treats for the party. The class had a GREAT time! Winter break homework is as follows: each student is asked to read 20 minutes and practice math facts for 15 minutes…
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Thursday 12/18
Posted on December 18, 2014Holiday party photos! See below.
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December Update
Posted on December 15, 2014An updated blog post is long overdue! We have been quite busy in second grade working on oh so many things. In math we continue to work with number lines, the hundreds chart, place value blocks, and other manipulatives to solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers. The kids are AH-mazing to…
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Friday 12/12
Posted on December 12, 2014Today’s movement break involved some yoga!
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Thursday 12/11
Posted on December 11, 2014The class was very excited to receive their very first pen-pal letter yesterday! Earlier this school year, we wrote letters to a 3rd grade class in Glenview. We received our first response back from them yesterday. Students were enthusiastic about writing another letter to them. Pen-pal writing allows the class to experience authentic writing to…
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Wednesday 12/10
Posted on December 10, 2014Roughly 3 to 4 days a week, our class rotates through math centers during math class. These centers provide much-needed review, practice, and enrichment for students that are differentiated to meet students’ needs and interests. Take a look at some of the math centers this morning… These 2 students are practicing their division facts by…
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Friday 12/5
Posted on December 5, 2014The class has been working on editing and proofreading writing during Integrated Literacy. They were introduced to nine proofreading marks… these are capitalization, punctuation, adding a comma, removing words, adding words, spelling correctly, lower case letters, and indentation. Please encourage your child to proofread and edit their daily response to reading. This will help get…
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Thursday 12/4
Posted on December 4, 2014This morning in math the class was introduced to missing factors represented as the letter ‘n’. I was very surprised to see how excited they were to see letters in their multiplication number sentences! Believe it or not, they actually asked for MORE math homework and practice only if there were letters in the equations….
