It has been an eventful first two months of school! We have been learning, reviewing, and going over daily our school and classroom rules. Our school and classroom rules include being safe, respectful, and responsible at all times. We can do our best listening in class by whole body listening. Which means listening with our eyes, ears, mouth, hands, feet, body, brain, and heart. You can see the read aloud and what we expect here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M383eW3ZRw&t=3s. We have also learned to be problem solvers when we are upset. Problem solving means: think about it, choose a plan, carry out your plan, and check your answer. Students should eventually independently manage their own feelings by being problem solvers and choosing a plan: calm down kit, tattle monster, reflection center, feelings poster, and peace corner are options within the classroom. They have also been taught deep breathing. We also had a Boo 2 Bullying assembly and have been talking a lot about being kind to one another. I have supported this through the Empathy video series provided by Class Dojo and we discuss this daily.
We have hit the ground running with ELD and guided reading intervention. For ELD, the intensive students stay in my room for reading and decoding practice, while the EO/benchmark students are split up between the other second grade teachers. All of the EL students are with Mrs. Byers at this time. Guided reading intervention is done within our own classroom and students are grouped based on their reading score with like-scoring peers. I am working on using the depth and complexity icons with an informative article with the highest group, close reading and comprehension with the next group, and reading/decoding with the lowest two groups. In math, we have completed module 1, which was all about Figuring The Facts. We learned sorting and graphing, number facts with the number rack, introducing addition and subtraction strategies, and fluency with addition facts to 20. We are currently in the middle of unit 2, which is place value and measurement. We have done counting and modeling two and three-digit numbers and measuring with tens. We started adding on an open number line on Friday and will be finishing those activities this week. Next week, we will be finishing the unit by practicing to think in twos. Our next unit (unit 3) will be on addition and subtraction within 100, to preview what is to come. In ELA, we have completed unit 1, which was Friends and Family, with a focus on narrative writing. Grammar included statements and questions, sentence capitalization and punctuation, commands and exclamation, subjects, letter punctuation, predicates, commas in a sequence, expanding and combining sentences, and quotation marks. In unit 2, we are focusing on Animal Discoveries with a focus on genre writing to inform. In grammar, we will focus on nouns: singular, plural, and possessive. At the end of this unit, we will have an assessment week for both units 1 and 2, as well as a week for student animal projects before conference week. Can't wait to see what they come up with! I am looking forward to FALLing into more learning as we continue into October and November! <3 Mrs. Patel
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