Ms. Peek’s Palace Weekly
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What we are learning this week …
Reading:
Math:
We are beginning a new
reading unit this week about
“Amping Up Our Reading
We are enjoying our
hands on geometry unit so
far! We will focus on sorting
shapes, 2-D and 3-D shape
attributes, shape terms
(vertices, edges, angles,
etc.), and explore rectangles
in-depth. We will continue to
revisit doubles, coins, making
ten, and computational strategies throughout the week as
we complete our math menus
during workshop. I am meeting individually with each
mathematician to review doubles, making 10, skip counting, and adding mixed coins.
Power.” We will learn strategies for working on our
reading voice (inside our head)
when we read silently. We
will also practice rereading
our books, focusing on fluency
and reading our books how
they’re designed to be read.
Readers will practice scooping
up several words at a time
and reading punctuation, too.
Finally, we will study “dialogue
tags,” which give readers big
clues about how their character’s voices sound. We will
continue monitor for meaning Science:
in our books as we read fluWe are having lots of
ently.
fun learning about matter!
Writing:
We are learning properties of
We are launching a each state of matter and
new writing unit this week, what the particles are like
and we will begin “Writing that make up each state (ask
your child about their
About Our Reading.”
“cheerios task!”).
Ways you can help…
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If you have not signed up for a conference time please make sure to do so by
this Friday, 10/16. Use this link to get to our conference sign-up page:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0844acaa2aaaf49-2ndgrade
Vocab Words:
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Numerous– many
Recreationsomething a
person does for
fun
Shelter-a place
that protects
people or animals
Necesarry –
needed
Upcoming Events...
Scholastic Book
orders due
10/16
E-Day
10/19
Parent
Conferences
10/21
through
10/23