The fun never stops!

From the desk of Mrs. Schmidt...

The next few weeks will be exciting ones in 2-2!  The end of October will welcome many fun events, such as the 2^nd Grade Musical, our field trip to the Arlington Heights Police Department and, of course, Halloween!

We brought Unit 2 to a close in math.  Looking ahead to Unit 3, we will take a look at place value to help us compare numbers.  Working with time, we will estimate with the hour and minute hands.  Collecting data, we will examine picture and bar graphs and create graphs of our own.  Real world connections will be made as we exchange money to “buy and sell” items. 

Sequence became an important topic of discussion this week as we looked at the importance of order in the structure of a story.  As we were reading a nonfiction selection entitled “A Harbor Seal Pup Grows Up,” we put the critical details into our sequence chart of first, next, and last.  Being able to identify the order of events in what we read will help our understanding of a story and our ability to retell events. 

For Guided Reading this week, we integrated our writing theme of Fairy Tales and read some leveled Fairy Tales.  Our discussions involved exploring cause and effect and using context clues to help us discover the meaning of unknown words in the text.

We started our Citizenship Unit in Social Studies this week.  Our discussions revolved around how we get along in a community, forming a government that helps citizens run the community.  We are very excited to see one of our local government’s branches of services in action when we go on our walking field trip to the Arlington Heights Police Department on the 24^th.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed for nice weather!

Up & Coming

Wednesday, October 22^nd-2^nd Grade Musical at 2:30 and 7:00 pm

Friday, October 24^th-walking field trip to Arlington Heights Police Department

Listening to reading through Tumblebooks online is not only enjoyable, it helps the children listen to a great example of fluency and intonation, it helps to build the children's sight word base and it expands their vocabulary!

The 2nd grade musical is coming up next week! Here is snap of the children rehearsing!