Welcome Second Graders!

Welcome to our classroom blog! My name is Miss Beery and I am extremely excited to be working with an amazing group of second graders this year. These past few weeks of school we have been getting used to our new Reading Street curriculum, improving our writing skills, learning new math strategies in addition and subtraction, and applying Bible stories to our daily lives.

Reading: Every week in the Reading Street curriculum we will be learning new spelling, vocabulary, and sight words. The students have enjoyed listening to a new song that introduces vocabulary words every week along with a concept video that helps students begin to grasp the key question that we will be talking about all week. Along with the many words students are learning, they will also learn a key concept in reading comprehension, such as pointing out the characters and setting or deciphering the main idea of a text.

Writing: For writing we have been focusing on using beginning sentences and ending sentences along with including details in between. The students have been doing a fantastic job of focusing on using beginning and ending sentences as well as making sure they use correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

Mathematics: In math we have been working on a multitude of strategies that students may use while solving addition and subtraction problems. Parents will see these strategies and how students utilize them in the graded response sheets that come home each day. Students have been doing an amazing job of learning these new strategies and using them on their own as they solve addition and subtraction problems. Awesome job, second graders!

Bible: Each week we have the opportunity to hear two Bible stories and think of ways that we can apply what we learn in these stories to our daily lives. So far we have learned about how God created the Earth, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Noah and the ark, Abram and his faithfulness in listening to God, the twins Jacob and Esau, and the story of Jacob's ladder. Throughout these Bible stories we also learn verses that we practice daily in the classroom. In all we do in the classroom, we are looking to our song (Alive by Hillsong) for the year in showing how we are now alive in Christ.

Keep checking our second grade blog throughout the school year to see, firsthand, what we have been learning in the classroom!