Week of February 3

Sunday Schedule:  Week 2, Day 3

This week's homework:  15 minutes of reading each night, 1 SpellingCity activity each night (new lists will be sent home on Sunday, February 3; Spelling Test on Tuesday, February 12)

IXL Math for possible extra practice:  any G (old practice: any A, B, D, E, F, (K.1-K.3), M, (S.8-S.15)

Classroom Happenings:
In Reader's Workshop, students are continuing to use mentor texts to study poetry.  This week we added to our knowledge of poetry by looking closer at rhyming sets (AABB, ABAB) and patterns authors use in poetry.

This past week in Writer's Workshop, we also built on our study of poetry by continuing to write our own poems.  This week we studied and wrote Bio-Poems and Cinquains!   

This week students worked with models and manipulatives to solve 2- and 3- digit subtraction problems.  We are using manipulatives like base-ten blocks or models like the arrow way or place value chart to solve these types of problems.  See if your student can show you how to solve 281-53 this weekend! 

Check out the latest SeeSaw post for a quick update about our most recent Science Project. 

Just a note:  We did not get to our Spelling Test on this Thursday, January 31 as our Science Lesson took a little longer than expected.  We will have the test that was originally scheduled for Thursday on Sunday, February 3 so we can finish with this list and start on the next one! 

Reminders:
If you're looking for the 2AN Schedule, it's now posted on the Blog!  Be sure to also check the actual blog website from time to time (taism4an.blogspot.com) as the Upcoming Dates Section at the top of the blog might come in handy to fill calendars out with dates a bit ahead of time!

Birthday treats!  Let me know if you'd like to bring in birthday treats for the class!  We have 17 students in the class that are always welcoming of treats.  :)  We will typically have birthday treats at 10:15am with our snack time.  So, if you can drop them off in the morning before snack, we will enjoy them with snack.  If not, let me know so I can plan for another arrangement.  (Note:  We do not have a peanut/treenut allergy in our classroom, but we do have a few students that are to avoid nuts and beans.)