Week of October 27th-31st!!

Our Learning Goals for the Week of October 27th-31st!!!

ELA:  We will continue analyzing the stories:  Alexander Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst and A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams!

Our ELA Goals are:

We can understand that knowing the structure of the story can help with comprehending the text RL.2.5

I can understand key details to answer questions in close reading.  RL. 2.1

I can understand different points of view within the text RL. 2.7

I can use information from illustrations to better understand the characters feelings and actions. RL 2.7

I can recognize the central message or lesson the author wants to get across to the readers.

I can identify the main idea and details of the text.

Common Learning Goal: I can understand that knowing the main idea and details helps me at understanding the story, key details, points of view, and illustrations to better understand the character's feelings and the author's central message.

Students will practice these skills using comprehension discussion questions, writing short response, using  character response graphic organizers, compare/contrast graphic organizers and a central message graphic organizer.  I will encourage your child to practice these skills with their own on level fictional books during silent reading time using these kinds of organizers!!!   Ask your child these questions when reading at home!!

Your child will continue using the new Reading log they started last week, if not completing the online Reading log.  Your child is to complete a different entry every night.  It can be on the same book, different chapters, etc.   Monday (summarizing), Tuesday (central message), Wednesday (character response), Thursday (Visualizing), Friday (visualizing response), Saturday(asking/answering questions while reading) and Sunday ( main idea/details). These are all Reading skills we will be covering in class.  I would recommend your child to be 

focusing on a fiction book this week or a nonfiction if filling out main idea/details graphic organizer!!

Our vocabulary words for the week are: bargain, boost, rich, exchanged, charcoal, spoiled, savings, absolutely, title page, vanish, waitress!!!

Ask your child to share his/her understanding of these words!!!!

Our Math Goals:

Our Math goals are:

I can read and write numbers to 1,000 using base ten blocks, number names, and expanded form.

I can compare two and three digit numbers.

     What is 10 more than 160--> 170

      What is 10 less than 160---> 150

     What is 100 more than 160--> 260

   What is 100 less than 160------> 60

       Remind your child to look in the right place value section!!

     

   Lastly, we will  continue practice identifying coins/values of coins since this is a skill that is used in both  Math and Reading this week:  Quarter, dime, penny, nickel!!! Practice with your child at home     

     Math Vocabulary for the week: Ones, tens, hundreds, thousand, digit, dollars, cents, pennies, dimes, dollar bills, compose, decompose, greater than, less than, equal to!

    Our Writing Goals:  I can summarize various parts of a story using a topic sentence and closing sentence.  I will use details from the words and illustrations to summarize what is happening in that part of the story!!

   Students will be looking into various parts of both stories and summarizing various parts of the story!

   Students also have a SUMMARY PROJECT COMING HOME THIS WEEK!!

Y   Your child is to pick a parent/close family member and interview him/her on their job using topic sentences, he/she will summarize different topics that share about the job!!! Be looking for info in your child's homework folder!!! This will be due Monday November 3rd!!! :-)

    Our Learning Goals for Social Studies:    I can use maps and globes to locate people and places.

·       SS.2.G.1.1 Use different types of maps (political, physical, and thematic) to identify map elements. ·        SS.2.G.1.2 Using maps and globes, locate the student's hometown, Florida, and North America, and locate the state capital and the national capital. ·        SS.2.G.1.3 Label on a map or globe the continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North and South Pole.

 SS.2.G.1.4 Use a map to locate the countries in North America (Canada, United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands).

Our Science Goals for this week:

Benchmark  SC.2.l.17.1:  I can compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival.

Benchmark SC.2.L.17.2: Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet it’s basic needs.

Your child will also be creating a habitat with plants and animals that live in this environment using a shoe box and other supplies.  They will summarize why this kind of habitat is the best environment for those kind of plants and animals!!

Spelling Words:

1. they're

2. their

3. there

4. learn

5. jumping

6. running

7. riding

8. squeezing

9. dropping

10. hopping

11. hoping

12. ran

12. swam

13. rode

Other Reminders:

Please sign your child's planner everyday!!!

Empty out the keep at home folder and sign anything under return to school!!!

Make sure your child is completing his/her homework everyday!!! Math is due everyday and Reading!!!

Spelling test is on Fridays every week!!!

REPORT CARDS GO HOME TOMORROW October 27th!!! Please sign bottom portion and return with envelope!!! You keep top!!!

Costume Parade is this Friday!!!! Please make sure the costume is school appropriate and send your child with school clothes underneath!!! :-)   It starts at 9:50-10:30 a.m. if you want to see the parade!!!

Our LIBRARY DAY IS THIS WEDNESDAY!!!

Have a wonderful week:-)  HAPPY EARLY HALLOWEEN :-)

   

Ms. Chapin's Monkey Jungle Of Excellence Week of October 21st-24th!!

Ms. Chapin's  Monkey Jungle Of Excellence Week of October 21st-24th!!

Our Learning Goals for the Week of October 21s24h!!!!

ELA:

We will continue reading the stories: Alexander Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst and A Chair For my Mother by Vera B. Williams

I can understand that knowing the structure of the story can help with comprehending the text RL.2.5

I can understand key details to answer questions in close reading.  RL. 2.1

I can understand different points of view within the text RL. 2.7

I can use information from illustrations to better understand the characters feelings and actions. RL 2.7

Common Learning Goal: I can understand that knowing the story structure helps me at understanding the story, key details, points of view, and illustrations to better understand the character's feelings.

Students will practice these skills using comprehension discussion questions, writing short response, using sequence graphic organizers and character response graphic organizers.  I will encourage your child to practice these skills with their own on level fictional books during silent reading time using these kinds of organizers!!!   Ask your child these questions when reading at home!!

Your child will start a new kind of Reading log, if not completing the online Reading log.  Your child is to complete a different entry every night.  It can be on the same book, different chapters, etc.   Tuesday (summarizing), Wednesday (character response), Thursday (Visualizing), Friday (visualizing response), Saturday(asking/answering questions while reading) and Sunday ( summarizing a chapter or part of the book). These are all Reading skills we will be covering in class.  I would recommend your child to be 

focusing on a fiction book this week!!!

Your child earns rings for Reading rewards for every ten minutes he/she reads.  They need to post comments in the reading room summarizing the story or fill out a paper for the night to earn the rings!!!

Vocabulary your child will know by the end of this week: college, downtown, fined, accident, waitress, coins, bargain, savings, spoiled, charcoal, exchanged, boost, rich, title page, absolutely, vanish!!

Your child will also be learning inflectional endings with double consonants such as:

If the verb has vowel and a consonant then it has a double letter!!

(Victoria/Charlie) swim (vowel and consonant after vowel)--> swim + m+ing= swimming!

(Charlie/Charlie) jump (consonant following a consonant) --> jump +ing = jumping

We also will be practicing taking the silent e off and adding either -ed or -ing

ride--> take off "e"--> riding!

squeeze--> take off "E"---> squeezing or squeezed!!!

*Practice this skill with your child!!!!*

Our Math goals are:

I can read and write numbers to 1,000 using base ten blocks, number names, and expanded form.

I can compare two and three digit numbers.

1Example: I have 160 cards.  I can fit 10 cards on each page.  How many pages would I have in my binder?   16 pages!!!!  I would've drawn 16 tens!!

                                       Write this number in two ways!!

                                      16 tens   or 1 hundred/ 6 tens!

    What is 10 more than 160--> 170

      What is 10 less than 160---> 150

     What is 100 more than 160--> 260

   What is 100 less than 160------> 60

      Students will also practice adding hundreds/tens/ones by drawing pictures!!!

   Lastly, we will practice identifying coins/values of coins since this is a skill that is used in both  Math and Reading this week:  Quarter, dime, penny, nickel!!! Practice with your child at home     

     Math Vocabulary for the week: Ones, tens, hundreds, thousand, digit, dollars, cents, pennies, dimes, dollar bills, compose, decompose

P   Please make sure your child completes his/her Math homework every night since it's a review of the skill we learned that day!!

O    Our Writing Goals:  I can summarize various parts of a story using a topic sentence and closing sentence.  I will use details from the words and illustrations to summarize what is happening in that part of the story!!

   

       Example: Alex kept losing his money or spending it. He kept making bets. He made a bet with Anthony that he could hold his breath to 300.  In the picture it shows he ran out of breath. For this reason, Alex lost the bet and had to pay Anthony.  Also, Alex made a bet with Nick that he could jump from the top step and land on the ground on both feet.  In the picture, it shows Alex landing on his side.  He lost the bet with Nick and had to pay Nick.  Alex can't seem to save his money since he keeps on spending. 

S   Students will pick parts of the story and will summarize!!

   Our Learning Goals for Social Studies:    I can use maps and globes to locate people and places.

·       SS.2.G.1.1 Use different types of maps (political, physical, and thematic) to identify map elements. ·        SS.2.G.1.2 Using maps and globes, locate the student's hometown, Florida, and North America, and locate the state capital and the national capital. ·        SS.2.G.1.3 Label on a map or globe the continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North and South Pole.

 SS.2.G.1.4 Use a map to locate the countries in North America (Canada, United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands).

Ask your child what he/she has learned about maps!!! Have your child create a map of how to get home or how to get from his/her bus stop to the house!!! They love creating maps using symbols, keys and compass rose!!  We will also be learning the history of different continents of the world!!!

Our Science Goal: I can compare and contrast the basic needs of plants and animals.

  Students will be learning about how plants and animals have many similar and different needs.   They also will be learning about the different kinds of habitats that they can be found in and why they're important!!! Your child will be creating a diorama of  a habitat for one kind of animal!!! 

Please send your child with a shoe box this week!!!

Our spelling words for this week:

ER SOUND!!

1. lottery

2. Germany

3. every

4. eastern

5. expert

6. serve

7. general

8. water

9. super

10. perfume

11. foster

12. wider

Bonus possibilities: hotel, total, local, vote!!!

Please have your child practice everyday!! The test will be on Friday October 24th!!!

Our library day is Wednesday October 22nd!!

Fall Festival is this coming Thursday October 23rd from 5-8 p.m. at Ridgewood High School!!!!! If your child has a pumpkin, please bring by tomorrow (10-21) so your child can be counted in the vote for best pumpkin drawing!!!

Have a wonderful week!!!!!