2H – WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

MS. WENDY EVANS

E-mail: wendy.evans@bbs.edu.kw Whatsapp: 66809872
Week 17: January 14th – January 18th 2018
Important notices:
 January 16th: Early Release – Students will be dismissed at 12:00pm
 January 24th: Report cards distributed
 January 24th and 25th : Parent Teacher Conference 1:00 - 5:00pm, and 1:00 - 4:00pm.
HOME PRACTICE
Reading Log: The students will take home books from our class library to read at home and
return. These folders can be kept at home every day except Thursday, when I will check their
reading logs and they will exchange their books for different books.
Please assist your child in completing the reading log.
 Encourage students to read quietly and without distraction in order to increase
reader's stamina.
 Encourage students to re-read the books to improve reading fluency and
comprehension.
English
Reader’s Workshop: Unit 2 – “Fiction Writer’s Workshop:
Reading” Unit 3 – “Nonfiction Writing”
We will be wrapping up our fiction unit. In this unit we will be creating various forms of
 We will begin our mini-unit on how nonfiction writing.
characters feelings change throughout  Students will write a friendly letter.
a story.
Word Study/Phonics
Magic “E” When the “e” is at the end of a word it often makes the other vowel say its long
vowel name.
Examples: bite plane grape
Sight Words:
friend, through, one, before, write
Grade 2: Reading Benchmark level
Level November January March
Below Level E Level F Level G
Approaching Level F/G Level G/H Level H/I
On Level H/I Level I/J Level J/K
Above Level J or above Level K or above Level L or above
Science
Animal Classification
 Students will be able to identify vertebrate and invertebrate
animals.
 They will also learn about the different classification of mammals,
insects, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
 Students will understand that animals are alike and different.
 Students will place various animals in their correct class.
 Math
SUNDAY: Lesson ( 6-6) Problem Solving
- Children will use number patterns to solve problems.
Example:

MONDAY: Lesson ( 8-1) Regrouping 10 Ones for 1 Ten

- Children will use models to add a one-digit number to a two-digit number.
Example:

TUESDAY: Lesson ( 8-2) Models to Add Two- Example:

and One-Digit Numbers
- Children will use concrete models to
add a one-digit number to a two-digit
number and decide if regrouping is
needed.

WEDNESDAY: Review Topic 6

**Classwork and a Practice Test for topic 6 will be sent home. Please use these sheets to
review for the test.
THURSDAY: Review and Topic 6 Test
- Children will be tested on mentally adding multiples of 10 to a two-digit number;
mentally adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number; adding a two-digit
number to a two-digit number using mental math; using a hundred chart to add 2 two-
digit numbers; adding using multiples of 10; and using number patterns to solve
patterns.