Mrs.

Thomas Classroom Weekly News

Week of: February 21 - 24, 2017

Good to Know
Related Arts this week:
Dates to
Monday Presidents Day - No school
Tuesday Music
Wednesday Computer Lab
Know
Thursday PE-wear tennis shoes!
Friday Art Thursday, March 9
**Next Monday, Feb 27 PE (wear tennis shoes!) 3 hour and 15 minute day
The classroom could really use some more for students
Glue Sticks. If you could please send some in, it Early Dismissal
would be greatly appreciated!
Also, we need a few more shoe boxes for science! So Friday, March 10
if you have any extra laying around your house you End of 3rd nine weeks
would like to contribute, that would be great!
Both will be needed for the creation of the ocean
habitat your student will be creating in the next Thursday, March 16
couple of weeks. Report Cards go home

With the year half way over, the stories are becoming more March 25 April 2
difficult. A second grade fluency level score rubric is written
below to help you see how your child is graded based on a cold Spring Break No school
read. The scores your student received for winter were
calculated using the fluency passage titled Backyard Crocodile
Relatives, recently sent home. In the Spring, the expected
words per minute required to receive an on-level score will
increase. Also, students will be starting to read all Reading
formative and summative assessments independently to
prepare them for 3rd grade expectations. Be sure that your
child is reading at least 20 minutes per day. It's ok for them to
read a passage/story multiple times. This increases their
fluency and reading ability.
Winter Fluency Passage Rubric
Approaching: 0-71 words per minute
On-Level: 72-99 words per minute
Beyond: 100+ words per minute
Reading Writing
The next three weeks we are working
Your student will be
on a comparing and contrasting and
writing a research paper. writing a research paper
Students have the following Each student will choose
learning goals: an animal from the ocean
Learning Goal: I can create a compare habitat and write about it
and contrast research report. over the next three weeks.
I can choose an appropriate topic.
I can read at least two texts on my
topic.

Science/S.S.
I can create a graphic organizer on my
topic.
I can compare and contrast my topic to
another similar topic.
I can create a compare and contrast
research report on my topic using text In Social Studies we are focusing
features. on Black History month. Your
I can present my report to classmates students will be learning about
using a proper speaking voice.
I can be an engaged listener and ask many different influential people
questions or make comments about the in our history.
presentation.
By the end of three weeks`, students
should be able to say they can do each of
the above!

Mathematics Geometry Three week unit

Learning Goals for students are: to recognize and draw shapes with certain attributes, partition a
rectangle into same sized squares and count the total number, to partition circles and rectangles into
halves, thirds, and fourths, and to write the correct fraction to match.
Please continue practicing adding, subtracting, telling time and counting money