Centers

Phonics games http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade2_3/pg_128/begin_dia.htm

Typing game http://www.growing.course.com/level_K/type/index.html

Peep and the Big Wide World http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/

Storyline Online http://www.storylineonline.net/

Week of May 2nd

Yesterday was the first day of May...it's hard to believe that we are in the final month of school. We will be busy for the next 4 weeks.

Math-Geometry: We are working on 2D and 3D shapes, as well as types of angles.

Science-Life cycles: We are currently watching our tadpoles grow each day, as well as beginning to watch our lima bean seeds sprout. Our class will also learn about the life cycle of a butterfly.

ELA-We are reading many books by Kevin Henkes and working on writing about connections we have (text-to text, text-to-self, text-to-world). This week we will begin working on our final writing project of the year.

Centers

Quotation Marks game http://www.quia.com/rr/335442.html?AP_rand=666450941

Quotation Marks http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/quotation_marks/quiz1632.html

Kevin Henkes' website http://www.kevinhenkes.com/young.asp

Storyline http://storylineonline.net/

March 21-25

Math-This week we are beginning a new unit in math. We will be learning about fractions! Have your child look for fractions in real world situations.

Social Studies-This week we will learn about different government leaders and their responsibilities.
Barack Obama-president of the United States
Nathan Deal-governor of Georgia
Eva Galambos-mayor of Sandy Springs

LA-This week we will learn how to use quotation marks properly in our writing to show dialogue. We will also review writing a summary on a book we have read.

March 7-11

Coming this week...

Math-We are working on division this week! The students are doing a great job with this unit and working very hard. We have done some fun activities, ask your child about them.

Science-We will being a new science unit this week. Our unit will focus on pushes and pulls. We will learn about simple machines.

LA-This week we will review friendly letters and take a test on the parts of a letter. We will also begin our writing performance assessment. The students will go through the writing process over the next two weeks to produce a final persuasive writing piece.

Centers this week

Bossy r game http://www.starfall.com/n/sorting/r-controlled/play.htm?f

ABC order http://www.spellingcity.com/alphabetical-order-practice.html?listId=3818009

Possessive nouns http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/exploring_possessives/index.html

Coming up this week

This week we will be learning the following...
Math-Creating and using multiplication tables, beginning division

Social Studies-Jackie Robinson, finishing up our Civil Rights unit with a project

Reading-r controlled vowels (er, ur, ir)

LA-possessive nouns (singular and plural), persuasive writing