LANGUAGE ARTS: This week we read and discussed A Crow, a Lion, and a Mouse! Oh My! and Hollywood Chicken. A Crow, a Lion, and a Mouse! Oh My! is a drama, while Hollywood Chicken is a fantasy. We worked on skills such as decoding words with long /a/ as in rain, stay, make, and acorn, identifying and forming verbs in the present, past, and future tense, identifying adjectives in sentences, identifying a simile (compares two different things using the word "like" or "as," such as "she's as busy as a bee,") an idiom (a phrase that means something different from its everyday meaning, such as "it's raining cats and dogs,") and a hyperbole (a statement that is so crazy it can't be true, such as "her smile was a mile wide,") using story vocabulary in context, and learning ten new high-frequency words.
MATH: We made numbers that are easier to subtract and then used mental math to find the difference, solved one and two-step problems using addition or subtraction, and chose various strategies we've learned so far to subtract two-digit numbers.
SCIENCE We are wrapping up our unit over matter and will soon begin a new unit over environments for living things.
SHORT WEEK NEXT WEEK: Due to Thanksgiving and the short school week next week, we will not be taking a spelling pre and post test. Also, take home folders will not be sent home and there will not be a second grade newsletter posted on my blog.
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM FUNDRAISER: St. Malachy middle school students are raising money for an outdoor classroom! This space will be a natural immersive learning experience that will benefit all St. Malachy students for years to come. All funds raised will be used to purchase sustainable outdoor classroom equipment, garden beds, water and sand tables and more. To help raise money for this outdoor classroom, St. Malachy School is having a "sweatpants fundraiser." Students can pay $20.00 to wear sweatpants to school throughout the month of December except on Mass days. If you are interested in having your child participate in this fundraiser, please send money to school by Tuesday, December 2.
UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER: Please note the following:
- Friday, November 21: Spirit Day
- Wednesday, November 26-Friday, November 28: Thanksgiving vacation
- Wednesday, December 3: St. Malachy Christmas Concert, 6:00 P.M. at Creston High School
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