Week of February 22nd - 26th

2nd Grade Math
This week we started our chapter on solid figures. We will be identifying the shapes and we will look at faces, edges and vertices.

1st Grade Reading
This week my students completed Unit 8 of the Wilson program. They worked very hard this week and they did well on their assessments. We will be starting Unit 9 next week. This unit focuses on syllables.

Afternoon Math
This week we continued to concentrate on addition. The boys have been doing very well with touch math. They have also been doing well using counters to assist them with the addition problems.

Afternoon Reading
My students continue to make great progress in Reading! We have worked on variety of different items this week in Reading: Istation, Guided Reading, Vocabulary, Comprehension and Writing.

Week of February 16th - 19th

2nd Grade Math
This week we have been busy working with time. We have worked on telling time to the hour, half an hour, and quarter hour.

1st Grade Reading
This week we continue to work with Unit 8 of our Wilson program. We have been concentrating on blends: -st, -cr, -cl, -nd. Trick words for the unit include: some, could, want, say, do, first, any, my, now
We will have our Unit test next week.

Afternoon Math
We have been busy working with both addition and subtraction. We have used a variety of different strategies including: touch math, number lines, counting cubes and drawing pictures. The boys have been doing well in Math!

Week of February 8th - 12th

I wanted to congratulate my students on all their hard work this week. They completed a stressful week of IOWA testing. They tried their best and I am very proud of them.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Week of February 1st - 5th

2nd grade Math
My students have been working extremely hard with money this week. They have been counting coins, counting on, making change and working on word problems. We will have our chapter test on Friday and we will begin our next chapter on Time after the IOWA exams.

1st grade Reading
This week we started Unit 8 of our Wilson program. The students learned the difference between a digraph and a blend. They both have two letters but a digraph makes one sound and a blend makes two sounds. Some examples are: -st, -cr, -cl.
Trick words for this week have been: want, could, some, say

Afternoon Math
This week in Math we have been concentrating on addtion. We have been using a variety of different strategies including: counting on, touch math, using counting cubes and drawing pictures. The boys have been doing very well in Math and they have been working very hard!

2nd grade Spelling
There will not be a spelling test next week due to IOWA testing.

Helping Haiti at Elizabeth Ide

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Helping Haiti at Elizabeth Ide

The response to Helping Haiti coin donation has been tremendous!! While collecting the coins over a two week period of time we raised $1513.97!!!! The students, parents and teachers at Elizabeth Ide really contributed to raising the awareness about the importance of helping the people of Haiti. Our donation will be donated directly to the Food for the Poor organization.

Thank you for supporting our Character Counts program's mission to help the people of Haiti.