This week in class:
-Conference Reminders and Field Trip forms go home.
-The Carson Grden Club will meet at the garden on Saturday, November 2, at 10:00 A.M. Check the Carson garden page for updates at http://carsongarden.wordpress.com/
-The cookie dough fundraiser continues.
-Halloween Parade Thursday. Students bring costumes to school and change at 1:00 PM. Parade at 1:20 on the Blacktop.
-Ms. Won’s Class October Birthdays Party: Thursday, October 31st at 2:00 P.M.
-Ms. Seyan’s Class October Birthdays Party Friday, November 1st, at 2:00 P.M.
-SHORT DAYS ALL NEXT WEEK. Conference Week is November 4-8; school dismissal will be at 12:52 P.M.
Language Arts:
Unit 2: “Good Readers Know What’s Important”
2.RF.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read grade-level text with fluency and understanding.
b. Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and accuracy on successive readings.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word-recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
2.RL.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Spelling Words
1. wear 2. wore 3. come
4. went 5. came 6. trick
7. treat 8. sweets 9. tricked
10. eat 11. ate 12. were
13. October 14. Halloween 15. costume
Language Arts Academic Vocabulary:
narrative, temporal, sequence
Language Arts Domain Specific Vocabulary:
Math:
Unit 3: Using Strategies for Subtraction
Purpose/Focus: This unit focuses on students developing an approach that considers context as well as a variety of strategies to solve problems of missing values in every position. This unit places an emphasis on understanding word problems and what is being asked in a problem. Students should begin to habitually check their answers to problems to see if they make sense. ( SJUSD Division of Instruction, June 2013)
2.NBT. 5 & 6 -Use properties of operations.
2. OA.1: Use drawings and equations to solve subtraction problems involving taking apart and taking from in all positions.
2.OA.2- Gain fluency with subtraction facts through 20
Standards for Mathematical Practice:
MP4: “Model with mathematics. Understand this is a way to quantitatively and abstractly (able to decontextualize and contextualize). What number model could you construct to represent the problem? How would it help to create a diagram, graph, and table…? What are some ways to visually represent…? “(SJUSD Division of Instruction, June 2013)
MP7: “Look for and make use of structure. Look for the overall structure and patterns in mathematics. What observations do you make about…? What do you notice when…? What parts of the problem might you eliminate…., simplify…? What patterns do you find in…?” (SJUSD Division of Instruction, June 2013)
MP6: Attend to precision
E-2 Excellence 