Hello Smart Pre-Second Graders and Super Pre-Second Grade Parents!
Wow! Can you believe that it will be May 1st tomorrow? This year has flown by and the pre-second graders have made so much progress!
PRE - SECOND GRADE SPELLING CHALLENGE!!!
It's almost time for second grade! Are you ready?? Are you spelling like a second grader??? I am challenging the class to all get 100% on their spelling tests this Friday. If EVERYONE gets an A+ or A++, I will provide surprise for the class. Are you up for the challenge??? YOU CAN DO IT!!!
This week in social studies and guided reading we are continuing our Eric Carle author study and having career week. We will read "Rooster's Off To See The World" to get ready for second grade and make predictions about next year. We will have several visitors in our class for career week including Mr. Denotti (Fabio’s dad), Mr. Leonhart (Sawyer’s grandfather), Dr. Cox (Kayden’s dad) as well as some of the wonderful Harelson staff. The kids enjoy learning more about the adults they see on a daily basis. The kids love having visitors in our class!
This week in writing we are working on a variety of exciting things! The kids are finishing their essays on Eric Carle. These are coming along great! The kids will write thank you letters to each of our class guests. The kids are letter writing experts now! The kids will also make several different class books about each career they learn about this week. They are such wonderful and enthusiastic writers. I really enjoy reading their writing.
The kids came home with Rainbow Words and they are due tomorrow. This week in making words we are working on question words with patterns (words that begin with the "wh" chunk) and we are also reviewing "are" and "is" contractions and adding "not" contractions. The kids have really tackled our contraction study and it is such a treat to see correctly used contractions in their writing. Way to go, pre-second graders!
The kids enjoyed their career week centers today! The centers include:
1. Listening - The kids watched a short video of Eric Carle reading a story, talking about his life and career and demonstrating his illustrations. This is a very neat and interesting video! They made a page to our class book about what it would be like to be an author and illustrator.
2. Social Studies - The kids took a mini-field trip to the Harelson office. They interviewed the wonderful people in our office (Ms. Ann, Ms. Janice, Ms. Jill, Ms. Sharon and Mr. Heinemann) to find out more about their jobs.
3. Writing - The kids looked at different books about careers. They wrote a letter to themselves about their hopes for the future.
4. Math - The kids practiced addition and subtraction on a space ship paper to get ready for our upcoming space unit.
5. Reading - The kids played sight word flash card races.
This week in math we are working on strategies for quickly and efficiently solving different types of addition and subtraction problems. The kids are good at addition and subtraction, but speed is still an issue. These additional strategies will help increase speed. We are also working on adding two two digit numbers together.
We were unable to go to computers this week due to MAP testing in the older grades. Instead, we will work on a secret project that you will find out about next week!
Have an A+ week!
Mrs. Johnston
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