HAPPY HOMECOMING WEEK!

This week will be a crazy week with Homecoming fun and MAPS testing!  The students are welcome to have fun dressing up this week! Here is a list of the Homecoming days, just remember no swim suits on Hawaiian Day.

On Friday, the kids are invited to a high school pep rally for homecoming and on Thursday, they will get to see the marching band playing and walking through our hallway!  How fun!  We will also dismiss 3 hours early on Friday for the Homecoming parade.

Our MAPs testing will be done on the ipads.  We will be testing reading, math and language arts on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week.  Last week we finished the FAST testing which is very similar to the DIBEL's literacy testing that we have done in the past.

In Literacy, we have been working on the following reading strategies:  determining important information, determining the author's purpose for writing, and checking for understanding when we read.  We are going to be starting a new author study on Marc Brown.  Marc Brown is famous for writing all of the Arthur books!  We will also be working on the phonics skills of long a and inflectional endings such as adding es and s and ed and ing to words as well as contractions.

In math, we have been working on addition and subtraction strategies using dominoes and short cut strategies to help us learn our facts more quickly.

Science is still exciting, since we are anxiously awaiting the changes in our caterpillars and wax worms.  We have been doing a lot of observing and discussing the life cycle of our classroom friends!

 WRITING:  We have started working on writing in our special writing journals as well as using writing apps on our ipads.  The second graders have a lot of ideas to write about and sometimes could sit and write all afternoon!  The apps that we are using for writing are:  kidblog, my story, and scribble press!

Have a great week!  

Mrs. Tuchek