Flanagan’s ShenanigansMonthly Classroom News Letter

Room 112

Ask Me About…Similar to our Thursday “Ask Me About…” below are some topics to ask your child about

to get the conversation started on how hard we are working in

second grade!

Writing… Narratives – Summer Stories

Math… Unit 1– Counting patterns

Reading… Daily 5 – Stations (Read to Self, Read to

Someone, Listen to Reading, Word Work, Writing)

Social Studies… Communities- Urban, Rural, and Suburban and how leaders are

Math Unit 1 We are wrapping up our first unit in math! We

are looking forward to sharing all of the knowledge we have learned on our first test on Thursday, October 6th. During the first unit we have worked on building routines in our math block. We learned about our math maintenance warm ups, tool kits, math boxes, slates, and manipulatives.

Unit 1 was a review of our schema, or what we already know from 1st grade. We reviewed the number grid, skip counting, money amounts, and a few basic addition facts. We are working hard to continue to build our fact fluency through Xtramath. We really enjoy versing other classes on Fridays in our fact fluency game. Be sure to ask us about it!

The Daily 5

eagerly looking forward to the first week of October when we will begin

like in our classroom. We are

books, strategy to select books that are just right for us in our book baskets.

We have also learned what our routines for Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Word Work, and Work on Writing stations will look

We have been working hard the entire month of September to build our routines during the Daily 5. We have learned how to build stamina during Read to Self. Stamina means that we read the entire time, without stopping or “fake reading”. The first time we practiced Read to Self we were able to read for 5 minutes without moving around. We built our stamina all the way up to 18 minutes! We know that the best readers are the ones who practice reading the most. We are working hard to use our iPick, good fit

writing! We are adding details through Ba-Da-Bing sentences. We are having so much fun being creative with our narratives.

we are working hard to develop these stories through our writing.

During some creative play using play dough we were able to recreate scenes from some of our favorite summer memories. Now we are drafting and learning how to hook readers in to make them want more of our

the month of September we worked hard to gather ideas during writing that we will use throughout Writer’s Workshop this year. We have covered our Writer’s journals, created lists, time lines, heart maps, and drawn pictures to brainstorm topics we can write about. Now

We began our first unit in writing! During

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Social Studies – Communities Unit Students are working hard as we continue

building our knowledge during our unit on communities! Students have learned that a community is a place where people live, work, play, and solve problems. We have learned about the 3 types of communities: urban, suburban, and rural. We are currently learning how to vote for leaders in the community like city council or leaders of different clubs in our community. We even talked about some of the leaders that are running for president. At home be sure to share your voting experiences with us! We would love to hear stories about how you have voted for different leaders and

Summer Narratives