This Week in Room 8 (2/5 to 2/9)

Valentine's Day is February 14th!

On Wednesday, February 14th, we will celebrate Valentine's Day here at Kipling. We will be making valentine bags in school for students to hold all their valentines. Please make sure that if your child is going to participate in exchanging valentines, he/she makes one for each student in the class. With the food and allergy policy for the district, there can be NO food or candy sent in with the valentines.

Recess Information:

Please remember that we go outside when the temperature/windchill is 15 degrees or above. Students need to have boots and snow pants in order to play in the snow. Please make sure that your child has a pair of shoes to change into. It is also a very good idea to send in an extra set of clothes in case your child's clothes get wet at recess.

ELA:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

Phonics -

• ow/ou sound like "hound"
• oo sound like "book"

Grammar -

• Continue use of pronouns in sentences with subject verb agreement.
• Continue to work through skills on Khan Academy 
• Nouns- identifying nouns, common/proper, singular/plural, concrete/abstract
• Verbs- identifying verbs, subject verb agreement

Sight Words - many, if, long, wish, sing

Root Word - hyper means "over, above, excessive, beyond"

Reading

This week students will be looking at different texts to:

• ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• describe characters, setting, and major events in a story using key details.
• compare and contrast details within and among stories.
• identify leadership character traits of characters in stories.

Writing

Students will begin to work on writing reviews. Today we discovered different items that can be reviewed. They will edit their reviews to make sure that they include a variety of techniques. Students will also focus on writing beginnings that hook their readers as well as creating catchy conclusions.

MATH

Students will work on the following skills:

• Organize, represent and interpret data and ask and answer questions about the data points
• defining (closed, number of sides) and non-defining (color, relative size) attributes of shapes
• build and draw shapes with defining attributes

The students can work on differentiated geometry problems on Khan Academy Mappers Geometry and Front Row on Geometry to pinpoint specific geometry skills.

SCIENCE

We will continue with how sound is made and how sound travels. This week we already rocked out to a concert with a wide-range of instruments made by the students. We will see how sound travels through yarn and how we can use light and sound to send messages far away.

Leader in Me

This week we will have an assembly put on by the second grade students. The 2nd graders will be focusing on gratitude with the students. We are also learning that leaders are more creative when they involve others. As we involve others, we are learning how to seek to understand before talking to the group. We are also learning how to take different ideas and transform into a 3rd alternative that is even better!