October 6-10

October 6th-10th

Writing

This week we are so excited to start our second grade service project, Coins for Coats!  We will be incorporating this into language arts, math, and science throughout the month of October.  The next two weeks we are getting the word out about the project.  We will create commercials for the K-OWL news, make posters for the school, write persuasive letters to send home in Tuesday folders and create collection jars.

Reading

We will put together several reading skills this week and take it back to our own reading. With our reader's tool-kits, we will be on the lookout for questions, predictions, connections, and inferences.   

Math

We’re late, we’re late, for a very important date! We will learn to not be late again as we practice telling time this week. We will start by reminding ourselves how long a second, a minute, and an hour are and tasks we can complete in each of those time periods. We will be looking at analog clocks and digital clocks to tell time to the minute. We will also learn telling time language, such as a quarter to 8. We will practice all week and wrap up with an assessment the following week.

Khan Academy: Telling time with a labeled clock

Many of you have been asking if your child can do more than just this assignment. Of course! We are working through the Early Math Mastery Challenge. Your child can always continue with that.

Science

This week in science we’re moving into matter and energy. Students will learn that matter has physical properties and those properties determine how it is described, classified, changed, and used. Students will classify matter by physical properties, including shape, relative mass, relative temperature, texture, flexibility, and whether material is a solid or liquid. We will have some fun sorting activities and see how we can sort our shoes.  We’ll also have a lab where we observe and identify the physical properties of objects and classify those objects based on observable properties.  Students will observe and describe size, shape, color, texture, flexibility, temperature, and mass.  Using all of our senses except taste to compare frozen and non-frozen gummy worms and ice pops, deflated and inflated balloons to compare how objects are the same and how are the objects different.  We’ll be real scientists and ask questions such as:

• Did the textures of different things change? How did they change?

• Are there differently shaped objects?
• Did solids stay solid? Why did some items become liquid?

Reminders

Library Day is Thursday: Don’t forget to return books to school!

Wednesday, October 8:  Spirit Night at Catfish Parlour

Monday, October 13th: Columbus Day, No School/Staff Development

Thursday, October 16: Caraway Science Night

Thursday, October 16: Coffee and Conversation with Mrs. Bailey 7:45-8:30

Saturday, October 25: Caraway Harvest Festival

Wednesday, October 29: Early Release - school ends at 12:45pm