Room 114's Classroom Blog! : October 1, 2016

It's hard to believe that it is October already! Time sure is flying! The children have done a fabulous job over the last month settling into second grade procedures and expectations! I couldn't be more proud of the effort and enthusiasm that they put forth each day! I look forward to another wonderful week of learning fun in Room 118!

Open House
It was so nice to see and meet everyone last Thursday night at Open House! The children have been working so hard, and they were so excited to show you just what they have been up to! Thank you so much for visiting our classroom! I hope you had as much fun as I did!

Getting ready for Open House!

Open House 2016!

Elect to Read!

On Friday, Boyden’s annual reading incentive program began! This year the theme is, “Elect to Read". On Friday, students came home with a letter explaining the incentive in more detail, as well as reading logs for the next four weeks! Reading logs are due back to school each Friday. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions as we begin this exciting program! Happy reading!!! :)

Literacy

This week we will be reading the text, A Walk in the Desert by Caroline Arnold and will be discussing the questions, “What can we learn from exploring new places and things?” and “What can we learn by exploring the desert?” We will also discuss the genre of Expository Nonfiction, practice reading words with inflected endings, identify the main idea and details within a text and determine the structure of a story.

Math

This week in math children will practice adding three addends and adding with 10. We will take our topic 2 test by the end of the week and will begin our third topic next week which focuses on subtraction strategies!

This week we started our Guided Math center rotations!