Mrs. Keith's Second Grade Class: Weekly Update: September 4

Can you believe we are finishing our 5^th week of school? This first 9 weeks is flying by! We have been very busy learning lots of new things. In math, we finished up our unit on place value and have begun to learn about making tens. Next week, I will introduce the making tens strategy for addition. Here is a preview of what the strategy looks like.

In language arts, we have been learning about proper nouns. Students learned the difference between a common noun and a proper noun by completing a variety of activities. We focused on capitalizing holidays, geographical locations, and product names. Next week we will begin learning about collective nouns and reviewing compound words.

In writing, we are focusing on writing a narrative. We have done several quick write narratives in our writing journal. We will begin focusing on having a clear beginning, middle, and end as well as a hook to get our readers interested.

We finished up our unit on matter with an experiment. Hopefully your child came home and told you about our Root Beer Floats. It was a fun way to see all three states of matter.

Today we started learning about the compass rose and reviewed some map skills. Next week students will create their own compass rose out of magazines and we will begin learning about Georgia’s five regions.

This week students also had the opportunity to meet their 4^th grade buddies. They shared 3 things about themselves, 2 activities or favorite school subjects, and 1 book or series they like to read. It was great to see the students connecting. We will see our buddies each month throughout the year.