1.22.13

Hello Families,

Today we celebrated the 100th day of school! Ask your child to tell you all about it!

This week in reading the students will read A Weed is a Flower. It is a biography about George Washington Carver. The comprehension skill is cause and effect. Students will be identifying examples of cause and effect in the text. The cause is why something happened and the effect is what happened. The spelling skill is comparative endings (-er and -est).

In unit study the students will be learning about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will read Martin's Big Words and create an acrostic poems using Martin's big words (peace, dream, love, equality, freedom).

The students will continue with fractions in math. The second graders will identify fractions of a set and solve fraction word problems by drawing pictures. We will review what we have learned about fractions on Thursday and conclude with a test Friday.