Hi Families!!!!!

This week is an important week!   To show our support for Spencer Meyer and all those with leukemia, we will be wearing ORANGE on MONDAY and on FRIDAY.   Thank you so much for  your continued support for our Georgetown family.

I am so proud of our second graders!  They are working hard and applying themselves in every academic area……. keep it up my friends!!!!  Here are some things that they have been up to:

 

Writing:  REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS!!!!!   We have turned our classroom into a reviewer room.  Children are using strategies to construct a review leaving a meaningful impression on their readers, including interviews, leads, endings and detailed categories.  We will celebrate our work together on Friday with a writer’s celebration.

 

Daily 5:  This week we have been looking at different kinds of text and using comprehension strategies to answer various types of questions.  As a class, we have come up with some test taking strategies that could help us when we take formal reading tests.  These strategies include: 1.  Read the questions before reading the text.  2.  Try to read all of the text, no matter what it looks like.  3.  Use the process of elimination when answering questions to discover the answer that makes the most sense.  4.  Go back and reread the text to reveal the answer.

 

Science:  This week we will be wrapping up our study of Earth’s landforms and bodies of water.  Children have experimented with a “special” material to draw different landforms including mountains, plains, plateaus, hills, islands and peninsulas :).

Math:  We have begun a unit of place value and representing numbers in different ways.  This will be preparing us for three digit addition later in the week.  Below please find information pertaining to this unit of study.

Have a wonderful week :)!

Mrs. Kuieck