Writer’s Workshop: Ask your child: I learned writers leave the reader with a message

or lesson from their story. What was the message or lesson in my story?

I put the finishing touches on my gripping fictional story! I used the editing checklist as I edited my writing.

I reviewed ALL my writing and starred the pieces I am most proud of this year!

Reader’s Workshop

Ask your child: Ask me what is

happening in the exciting Read Aloud in The Trumpet of the Swan!

Ask me the characteristics of fairy tales. I am reading fairy tales and identifying these characteristics.

Ask me about the Venn Diagram my class made as we compared the original Cinderella to the Egyptian Cinderella.

I am comparing and contrasting different versions of Cinderella using a Venn Diagram.

Ask me to retell the story Seeds of Fortune. What was the message in this book?

Ask me about the class town we built. Does my building produce a good, a service or both?

Mrs. Smoral’s Class

Math Workshop: Ask your child: I graphed my data from the marble roll experiment

on a line plot. Ask me what I learned about line plots! I wrote a question and surveyed my classmates. I

then took my data and placed it on a graph. Ask me what kind of graph I used to record my data. Ask me if my data was categorical data or numerical data.

I played a fun game where I rolled three dice and made a three-digit number. I then subtracted that number from 1,000! I used my landmark numbers and used mental math to solve these problems!

I learned how to add and subtract two and three digit numbers using the traditional algorithm.

MATH VOCABULARY: half, start unknown in a story problem, change unknown in a story problem, result unknown in a story problem, equation, greater than, less than, expanded form, numerator, denominator, repeated addition, multiplication, factor, product, numerical data, categorical data, line plot, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, algorithm

Word Study: Ask your child: This week I looked through all the vocabulary

words in my Learning Journal. My vocabulary has really grown in second grade!

New Vocabulary Words

Ask your child to define, syllabicate and use these words in a sentence.

disposable pollute ban debt interest

Learning Experiences

May 17, 2019

Special Happenings Ask your child: Ask me about the visit from the Hudson Library!

Ask me about the summer reading program at the library!

Ask me about the visit from the HHS Sign Language students.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!Be sure to visit Neel’s bother Jai’s lemonade stand in front of the Learned Owl on Saturday, May 18 from 12PM to 3PM.