Our Learning On Display

The children were so excited to share their work with the Cutler Community. The children's nutrition creations are displayed in the Learning Commons and in the Art Gallery. I hope you have a chance to stop by and see them.

Family Reading :)

Looking for a chapter to book to share as a family. Here is a link to some great books!

http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2015/12/best-read-aloud-chapter-books.html

Where in the world..............

Our next unit of study in Social Studies will focus on geography. We will learn about the continents and oceans. Also, we will learn about natural and manmade landmarks. Please let me know if you have any souvenirs, globes, atlases or other materials that you would be willing to share with us.

Do you have a friend or family member that lives in another state or country? Will you be traveling? Please send us a postcard, letter or email? Send to:

Mrs. Adamik's 2nd grade
Cutler School
237 Asbury Street
South Hamilton, MA 01982

m.adamik@comcast.net

Fundations Update

Currently, we are thinking about multisyllabic words and how we segment the words. We are having fun thinking about suffixes (ness, less, meant, full,able, ic, en) and are excited when we find a word with a suffix in our daily reading. Also, we continue to study the vowel teams. This unit introduces
/au/ as in august and /aw/ as in saw. The trick words are against, knew, know, always, often and once.

Did you miss this opportunity?

Mystery Readers

  In the months of December and January, we will be focusing on the genre of mystery. As part of our study, the 2nd grade teachers are inviting "mystery readers" to come and read a favorite story to the class. The selected book does not have to be a mystery but the day and time of your reading is to be kept a secret. The children will try to guess who the mystery reader is based on clues in our morning message.  We will be able to have mystery readers visit any time between 10:30 to 11:30 and  1:30 to 2:45. Please let me know a day or days you are available and what 20 minute time slot works within those time ranges. If those times do not work for your schedule, please let me know a day and time that does work for you and I will try to accommodate your schedule.
Remember to keep the swell secret...SHHHHHHH!!!!!

Current Foucs in Math

Our current math lessons and activities are based on the following Common Core Standards:

Understand place value.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1
Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1.A
100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a "hundred."

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1.B
The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.2
Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.3
Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.4
Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.8
Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900.

Homework- Questions, Concerns, Suggestions

 I hope the first week of homework was manageable and that your child was able to complete the tasks with minimal assistance. The same format will be used this week. Please let me know if you have any questions.