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 * === October Newsletter[[image:school_backbus.png align="right"]] ===

Second grade Title I students are enjoying a variety of stories, and having fun learning second grade skills. We are using graphic organizers; tools that help them better understand information; building words with letter tiles; learning what to do when we come to a word we don’t know (find smaller words within the word, using picture or context clues, rereading); improving our comprehension skills (asking ourselves questions about the story, summarizing the passage, rereading the selection); and learning a variety of literary skills such as story elements (characters, plot, and setting); and an author’s purpose when writing (to entertain, to inform, or to persuade).

In math, second graders are becoming more thoughtful problem solvers as we dig deeper into our new math series. We are learning new math language such as //equation// as another name for a number sentence; the addends in a problem are the //partners//; a fact family is demonstrated in our //math mountains//; and showing our work in the form of a //proof drawing//. Our students are getting the opportunity to demonstrate and explain math problems to their peers. Second graders are truly off to a wonderful start, as they are becoming better readers and problem solvers! || == Events/Homework ==

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