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Mrs. Malone's Thursday Times

Dowell Elementary School
January 12, 2012

Monday – HOLIDAY

Tuesday – COMPUTER

Wednesday –  PE

Thursday – SCIENCE

Friday - PE

Homework

• Check the agenda daily.
• Study spelling list 16 words for tomorrow's assessment.
• Review vocabulary words in today's blog.
• Read AR daily.
• Practice identifying & comparing fractions

Continue practicing the following:

• Giving back change from $2o
• Telling time to 5 minutes
• Plural nouns & possessive nouns:  It is very easy for students to get these 2 concepts mixed-up.  Thanks!

Spelling Assessment

There will be an assessment this Friday (tomorrow) on list 16 words located in the back of the 2nd Grade Handbooks.   Start studying list 17 after tomorrow's test.

Reading Vocabulary – fable, poem, passage, author's purpose (entertain, inform, persuade)

Language Arts Skills & Vocabulary –  subject, predicate, noun, verb, pronoun

Skills to review: using possessive nouns correctly (ex. a boy's coat -all the boys' coats), using possessive pronouns (his, mine, etc.), homonyms (I wind my watch.  The wind is blowing.), singular & plural nouns, writing a paragraph with a main idea, supporting, supporting details, and correct capitalization/punctuation

Math Skills and Vocabulary  - fraction, part, whole, numerator, denominator

Skills to Review:

• giving back change from $20 (new skill)
• counting money using bills & coins
• telling time to 5 minutes
•  place value to 999
• 2 digit subtraction with & without regrouping (borrowing)
• subtraction using estimating
• checking subtraction with addition
• Venn diagrams
• plane figures (geometric shapes 2-D)
• using plane shapes to make new figures
• solid figures (geometric shapes 3-D)
• vertex, vertices
• edges, sides
• angles-acute angle, right angle (square corner), obtuse angle

Science  Vocabulary – Review: solar system, star, sun, moon

Social Studies Vocabulary – Review: Martin Luther King, Jr.

AR 

• AR Party - 2 books should be read by tomorrow for the 3rd grading period.

Thanks!

Thanks to our wonderful room moms for a great holiday party and to everyone who helped put our holiday celebration together.  The students had so much fun making crafts & parent gifts and then celebrating at the party.  We couldn't have done it without your help.  Your children & I appreciate everything!!!  

ETC.

• Report cards come home today.  Please keep the report card, sign the parent signature card, and then return the signed card and the envelope.  Thanks! 
• Please read the letter concerning  our Fernbank field trip.  Sign and return the parent permission form. 

Wish List

• dry erase markers
• healthy cereal  for students without snacks

Dates to Remember 

 Jan. 16 - Holiday-NO SCHOOL

Jan.  19 - Curriculum Night

Jan.  26 - I Moms

Feb. 2 - Cosmic Bowling

Feb. 8 - Fernbank Field Trip

Feb. 9 - All Pro Dads

Feb. 20 - Holiday - NO SCHOOL

Feb. 23 - I Moms

 

Web Sites-Interactive Computer Games for Home

Addition:

Math Baseball: http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html

Aplus Math-Games-Matho-Addition: http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html

Uncover the correct Answer: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/add/addcard.htm

Doubles Adding Game: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/matching/matching/

matching.html

Double Digit Math Drill: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/double.htm

Addition and Subtraction Drill: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/drills/drill.htm

Add it up!: http://www.kidsnumbers.com/add_it_up.php

Subtraction:

Subtraction Fishing: http://www.softschools.com/math/games/fishing_sub.jsp

Subtraction Machine and Sum Sense: http://www.gamequarium.com/

subtraction.html

Subtraction Hidden Picture: http://www.aplusmath.com/games/picture/

SubPicture.html

Multiplication:

Aplus Math-Games-Matho-Multiplication: http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/

index.html

Multiplication Grand Prix: http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

Multiplication Baseball: http://www.prongo.com/math/multiplication.html

Fractions:

Turkey Terminator: http://www.kidsnumbers.com/turkey-terminator-mathgame.Php

Pizza Party: http://www.primarygames.com/fractions/start.htm

Time:

Clockwork: http://www.kidsnumbers.com/telling-time.php

What Time Is It?: http://www.primarygames.com/time/start.htm

Misc: www.funbrain.com www.netsmartzkids.org