February Update

February promises to be an exciting month in second grade. Stay tuned for information regarding the 100th Day of School and Valentine’s Day.  In reading, we have started a new unit titled Studying Characters and Their Stories. We are pulling old strategies from first grade and the beginning of the year and using them to build reading comprehension based on the characters in the story. We are paying close attention to the character's feelings, actions, words, and how the character reacts to the problem in the story.  Students continue to do an amazing job writing gripping fictional stories in writing.  These stories contain characters, setting, problem, events, and a solution.  We are using dialogue and action to help bring the stories to life. In our new unit in math we are learning different strategies to add and subtract two-digit numbers.  So far we have used base ten blocks and open number lines to add and subtract two-digit numbers with and without regrouping. Please continue to practice addition and subtraction math facts at home.