WEEKLY
UPDATE
Reading
Greenwood
Elementary School
Brookeville, MD
4/ 29/ 2016
Second Grade
This week we have focused our reading
instruction around the book, Boy, Were
We Wrong About Dinosaurs by:
Kathleen V. Kudlinski. Students have
been asking and answering who,
what, where, when, why, and how
questions to demonstrate
understanding of key details in a text.
Students are examining multiple texts
and images to deepen their
understating of a topic. Also, students
are strengthening vocabulary by using
context clues and dictionaries to
complete vocabulary word maps.
Students should be able to explain how
specific images contribute to and clarify
a text. In addition, students have
discovered that some of our original
thinking about dinosaurs has changed
with further scientific research and
investigation.
Science
Our caterpillars are growing fast!
Our Painted Lady caterpillars have
grown so much! We each have two
caterpillars at our desk, so we are able
to observe our caterpillars molting and
spinning silk webs. They are big
enough now for us to identify their
many parts and will soon form a
chrysalis. Ask your child about the
purpose of the bristles, spiracles,
prolegs, true legs, mouth, simple
eyes, and spinneret.
Math
Students have been using a variety of
strategies to add or subtract 3-digit
numbers. Students are using base ten
blocks to model composing or decomposing
a ten or a hundred. Then, they record
written methods using drawings of base ten
blocks. Also, students are generating their
own number lines as a strategy to add or
subtract. Students will continue to use
strategies based on place value to identify
relationships between addition and
subtraction.
Please continue to practice basic facts
and fact families at home to increase
speed and accuracy on Mad Minutes.
Writing
Our poetry is “taking shape”. Students
have been enjoying writing their own
concrete, cinquains, acrostic, and free verse
poems. Their skill at including rhyme,
rhythm, repetition, metaphors, similes, and
alliteration in their poetry is increasing as
well. We have begun typing some of our
poems and look forward to publishing them
in a media presentation with Mrs. Corrado!
Upcoming Events
5/2 Mad Science Program – Creature Features
5/4 Super Reader #14 due
5/11 Spelling Test #15
5/18 Super Reader # 15 due