It has been a very busy first week to begin our year. As I mentioned in my opening letter, we have a large group consisting of 14 girls and 11 boys. I thank you for responding on the volunteer forms. I may be calling you sometime over the long weekend so that I could start next Tuesday having you come in to help.
Overall, we have had a great first week. The children have shown excellent behavior and are making good progress towards learning the routine and my expectations. This is a wonderful group of children, and I'm truly looking forward to the year. We have spent some of our time getting to know one another. We have shared responses to discover how we are alike and different.
In literacy, we enjoyed two picture books about Boomer, the dog. We read "Boomer Goes to School" and "Boomer's Big Surprise". I also began to read aloud a chapter book called "The Next Door Dogs". The children have had guided lessons in writing answers to comprehension questions about the chapter book. In this way, I have gained a better understanding of their writing skills. They have also had time to use many materials for partner and independent use of word skills. We have just started the first page of our spelling books. Spelling homework will be coming home next Tuesday which will be due back by next Friday. Our first spelling test will be next Friday.
In math, we completed the first two lessons with a focus on joining groups and writing addition sentences based on story problems or visual sets of groups. You will see some samples of these math lessons in your child's take home folder. The children have also been practicing number writing to increase their speed and accuracy. We will start Rocket Math next week which is a program for learning math facts to 18 with automatic recall.
In science, we started a unit on seeds and plants. You will be hearing more about this as we begin to explore how seeds differ from one another. Hopefully, next week we will begin a few planting experiments.
If you have internet access, check out our classroom site by going to mrsbluhmsclassroom.blogspot.com
Welcome to our blog. We are a second grade classroom at Antrim Elementary School in Antrim, New Hampshire, USA. There are currently 16 of us in our class. Our teacher is Mrs. Bluhm. We hope you enjoy sharing in our learning. Please be sure to leave us a comment.
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