Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving from some of our 2nd grade turkeys! Enjoy your Chanukah/Thanksgiving festivities.
Friday, November 15, 2013
11-15-13 Classroom Update
It's been a busy few weeks around here. Thank you very much to all of you for coming in for conferences this week. It was very nice to see some familiar faces and to meet some new parents as well. I hope I was able to answer all your questions and give you some insight about how your child manages the day here in second grade.
The highlight for Language Arts over the past two weeks centered around diaries and spiders - an unusual combination! After we read "Diary of a Spider," we made spiders and then wrote a diary entry from a spider's point of view in some part of our school building. I created a PhotoStory slide show with their entries - we viewed it this morning and it was so cute! I'm finalizing it over the weekend and will post it for every one's viewing pleasure. Your children did a great job on this project, and it covered so much learning. I like to let them know after they tell me how much fun they had doing something that they were learning - gets 'em every time! They can't believe it.
We've moved into regrouping in Math - doing it the Singapore Math way, with everything based on tens has made it so manageable for them. This is a little different than how you and I learned it, just in case they try to show you and you aren't sure about their process. We also worked on measurement during our "Mustache Measurement" last week - did you happen to see the bulletin board with your child's photo? They are certainly the cutest mustached second graders ever!
We have worked hard in Science learning about the water cycle. Learning the big words like condensation and evaporation and precipitation has made them feel very important. Tying in the water cycle and our continued study of weather helped them understand how the rain changed to snow this past week. Ask them to sing the "Water Cycle" song to you.
Next week's Spelling words are as follows...end, camp, thank, sing, drink, hunt, stand, long, thump, hand, think, bring, jump, went, young, friend and the WOW word is coming.
Have a great weekend and please let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at mlbuster@torahacademy.org
The highlight for Language Arts over the past two weeks centered around diaries and spiders - an unusual combination! After we read "Diary of a Spider," we made spiders and then wrote a diary entry from a spider's point of view in some part of our school building. I created a PhotoStory slide show with their entries - we viewed it this morning and it was so cute! I'm finalizing it over the weekend and will post it for every one's viewing pleasure. Your children did a great job on this project, and it covered so much learning. I like to let them know after they tell me how much fun they had doing something that they were learning - gets 'em every time! They can't believe it.
We've moved into regrouping in Math - doing it the Singapore Math way, with everything based on tens has made it so manageable for them. This is a little different than how you and I learned it, just in case they try to show you and you aren't sure about their process. We also worked on measurement during our "Mustache Measurement" last week - did you happen to see the bulletin board with your child's photo? They are certainly the cutest mustached second graders ever!
We have worked hard in Science learning about the water cycle. Learning the big words like condensation and evaporation and precipitation has made them feel very important. Tying in the water cycle and our continued study of weather helped them understand how the rain changed to snow this past week. Ask them to sing the "Water Cycle" song to you.
Next week's Spelling words are as follows...end, camp, thank, sing, drink, hunt, stand, long, thump, hand, think, bring, jump, went, young, friend and the WOW word is coming.
Have a great weekend and please let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at mlbuster@torahacademy.org
Monday, November 4, 2013
Magic Trick - 10 game!
By popular request, here are the directions to the latest craze in second grade!
1. You need cards 1-9 (or Ace-9 with Ace being "1;" 36 cards total.
2. Pull out a mystery card and set it aside. Don't show it until the end.
3. Make a 3x3 array with your cards (3 rows of 3 each.)
4. Find a bond to 10 and remove the 2 cards. If there are more bonds to 10, remove those as well.
5. Add new cards from your hand to replace the cards you removed. Continue finding bonds to 10 and removing cards.
6. As you remove cards, deal out new cards from your hand to add to your array.
7. If there is not a bond to 10, make a new row of 3 to your array.
8. When you are finished, there will only be one card left. The Mystery Card will be the one you need to make the last 10 bond with the remaining card.
Have fun and be amazed!
1. You need cards 1-9 (or Ace-9 with Ace being "1;" 36 cards total.
2. Pull out a mystery card and set it aside. Don't show it until the end.
3. Make a 3x3 array with your cards (3 rows of 3 each.)
4. Find a bond to 10 and remove the 2 cards. If there are more bonds to 10, remove those as well.
5. Add new cards from your hand to replace the cards you removed. Continue finding bonds to 10 and removing cards.
6. As you remove cards, deal out new cards from your hand to add to your array.
7. If there is not a bond to 10, make a new row of 3 to your array.
8. When you are finished, there will only be one card left. The Mystery Card will be the one you need to make the last 10 bond with the remaining card.
Have fun and be amazed!
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