I am SO excited to be back in the classroom after being on maternity leave! It has been an amazing experience to see your child's face, whether in-person or on Zoom. If you have any questions about the new hybrid schedule or the weekly independent-work chart, don't hesitate to ask. I am here to help!
Since I have returned, we have already been busy working on a lot of new concepts and reviewing others. In Language Arts, we have finished Unit 5 and are now working on Unit 6 until the end of the year. The unit is titled, "How on Earth?" and the big idea is, "What keeps our world working?" Every week, children will complete a mini-project that is related to the essential question. Students will continue to practice writing weekly, with focus on organization, word choice, and ideas. This unit is focused mainly on the writing process of informative/explanatory writing, including pre-write/modeling, draft/revise, proofread/edit, publish/evaluate, and research. In writing, they will focus on effective expression in evidence, research, and opinions from Myths, with a focus on plant-life and growth in Science. The student outcomes are to ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in text, recount stories and determine their message, and describe the structure or a story. Language Development includes adjectives and including commas in a series, as well as continuing vocabulary acquisition and foundational skills in phonics/word study and fluency. Week 1 - What do myths help us understand? Week 2 - How do we use energy? Week 3 - Why is teamwork important? Week 4 - How can we use money? Week 5 - Where can your imagination take you? In Math, we are currently working on Unit 7, which covers measurement, fractions, and multi-digit computation. This unit addresses metric measurement, fractions, and multi-digit addition and subtraction, set in the context of army ants, picnic ants, and imaginary ants who enjoy toys as much as second graders do. In module 1, students discover that the average length of a worker army ant is 1 centimeter, make army ants rulers, similar to the inchworm rulers they made in unit 4 and use their new rulers (or rulers at home) to measure in metric units. In module 2, an amusing children's book about ants serves as a springboard for investigating division and fractions. Modules 3 and 4 feature a new set of story problems that revolve around a toy store for ants. After next week, we will be moving onto Unit 8 to end the school year. More information about that unit to come on next month's blog post! We are ending our April Number Corner, which focused on fractions and data collection and will be moving on to our May Number Corner, which focuses on adding and subtracting 10 and 100 from any 3-digit number, using number grids and lines as models to support students' thinking. The calendar collector highlights measurement and data collection as students measure and compare heights of children in different grade levels. During the daily rectangle activities, students learn how to label rectangles with their dimensions, and begin to develop intuitions about the connection between the dimensions of rectangle and its area. Quick facts, a timed routine designed to help all the students master their addition facts to 20, continues this month. During the last week of May, there will be a final Number Corner Checkup to assess many of the skills and concepts that have been addressed over the past several months. Over the last 5 weeks of school, students will be working on their "My Body Project", as well as a second-grade memory book. The body project will be due on Friday, May 21st! Check back next month for another blog post. Until then, you can reach me through Class Dojo. :) Happy wishes to all, Mrs. Patel
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