Welcome to Mrs. Ringham's Second Grade Class

Hi parents! 

Welcome to my blog.   

This blog will be a major source of information for you. 

( http://chalker.blogs.com/ringham/)

I will be in touch with you via e-mail on a weekly basis, but this blog will let you know a little about our current units of study.  This is also the place you will find websites that your children will be using at home that are related to current studies.

I am always very excited about the beginning of a new school year.  The first week of school, we will get to know each other better and through activities and games, we will discover many truths (like cooperation, kindness, etc.) that will benefit our learning throughout the year. 

Parents, you will receive a couple of letters the first week of school that explain many of my daily/weekly procedures.  It looks like a lot on paper, but in reality, it becomes routine in no time.  Please take the time to read these letters very carefully so that you are "in the know."

The ball really gets rolling the second week of school.  Each day, I will introduce a new component of our "soon-to-be" daily routine. By the third week of school, I hope to hit the ground running! Then it's "off to the races" on our journey through second grade.

Below are a few websites that will be beneficial throughout the year:

Math Magician (use this to practice math facts each weekend and record practice on log that is located in blue plastic folder)

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html

Other sites you may want to visit- just for fun!

www.kidport.com

www.internet4classrooms.com  (click on links for K-12 teachers.  scroll to bottom - clisk on assessment - skills Second Grade

http://aaamath.com 

IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT YEAR! 

LOTS OF FUN--- LOTS OF LEARNING--- LOTS OF NEW FRIENDS!      

I CAN'T WAIT!   

Your partner in your child's education,

Mrs. Ringham

 

May 18, 2009

Learn to Keyboard this summer

Learn to Keyboard

May 15, 2009

TAKE TESTS ON BOOKS YOU READ THIS SUMMER -  www.bookadventure.org

May 11, 2009

Practice your cursive writing over the summer

Create your own practice papers

Directions for lower case letters


cursive practice


more cursive writing

Lower case practice

April 16, 2009

life cycle research information

Lots of animal information

How to draw a lifecycle

Life cycle template

Sequencing cards - lots of animals- life cycles- 

Lots of information on many animals

All types of life cycles - your parent may need to read this one with you

Many plants and animal life cycles to choose from

Birds, turtles, frogs, grasshoppers and more

Cockroach or horsefly lifecycles

Great powerpoint on Animal/Plant life cycles

Frog life cycle

Check this one out - everything from elephant life cycles to jellyfish life cycles

Life cycle of a housefly

Human life cycle

Powerpoint life cycle of a cat

Dinosaur information and life cycle

March 09, 2009

FOURTH NINE WEEKS.... (We're in the home stretch! )

General Practice -

Check out the second grade practices 

Check out this second grade site for General Practice

INTERNET4CLASSROOMS

Reading

As a parent, how should I help my child when we are reading together?

Reading Comprehension practice


Language Arts

Homophones

LArts - Literacy practice

More Language Arts practice

Phonics lessons

More Phonics work

Spelling

General Spelling site  


Math

Practice counting change back

Steps for subtracting 3 digit numbers with regrouping

Practice adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers online

Use ARRAYS to learn to multiply

Steps for multiplying

Make yourself some multiplication flash cards

Steps for dividing

GRAPH PRACTICE

Practice reading graphs

Read bar graphs

Practice reading Venn Diagrams



Social Studies - Economics

Delivering the goods

http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM197&page=teacher

Woof! Woof!  At your service

http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM194

Goods and services

http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM642&page=teacher

Which chips would you buy?

The Perfect Pet

Own your own business - The Lemonade Stand

Science

plant life cycle powerpoint

plant life cycles illustrated

Life Cycles

Read about Photosynthesis - then answer some questions

Read about the parts of a seed - then answer some questions

Read about the parts of a flower - then answer some questions

Read about the life cycle of a plant - then answer some questions

January 05, 2009

Third nine weeks of school

CONTINUE TO PRACTICE YOUR MATH FACTS

MATH FACT PRACTICE


Math Sites to visit:

Practice site for those needing more practice for counting FACES, EDGES, VERTEX

Measurement

Which ruler song

reading a ruler (standard and metric) 

  Round measures using a ruler  

Estimating Length

Practice reading inches

Which unit would I choose?

Measuring with centimeters

 Measure the bear!!


Temperature

practice reading temperatures

Fractions

Introduction to fractions

Create fractions

Identify fractions

You make the fraction-see what it looks like

match fractions to model

Fraction Race

Bowling for Fractions

Representing and Comparing 3-4 digit numbers

Word form

Place value of numbers

Numbers to 1000

Numbers to 1000 in different ways

Money (Change back)

Change Back

Counting Money



Time

Time practice (Explanation of hands)

Telling time to various intervals

You set the time on the clock

You place the hands in the correct position

More great practice telling time

Data

Practice Venn Diagrams

Practice reading and creating Venn Diagrams

Let's graph

Build -a-Saurus

SOCIAL STUDIES

Interactive coloring pages - America's symbols

Famous Americans in our History - interactive coloring pages

Famous Black Americans - interactive coloring pages

The three branches of government

SCIENCE

Earth in Motion

Story of Sunrise/sunset

Sunrise and sunset

Why do we have seasons?

Watch the moon phases

How shadows are made

Light and shadows

More shadow examples

Kids Astronomy

HEALTH

How should I wash my hands?

When I have a cold...

Kids CAN play it safe!!

THE LANGUAGE ARTS CONTENT CAN BE FOUND UNDER THE 2ND NINE WEEKS AREA.  CONTINUE TO SCROLL DOWN FOR THAT PRACTICE AREA.

October 20, 2008

SECOND NINE WEEKS PRACTICE SITES

GRAMMAR

Tips for identifying complete/incomplete sentences

Identifying complete/incomplete sentences

compete and incomplete sentences

subject/predicate practice

Change y to I; vowel consonant practice

Identify nouns and verbs

Commas in a Series - Battleship

More commas in a series games

Parts of a sentence

PRACTICE SINGULAR POSSESSIVE NOUNS

GRAMMAR BLAST (great site!- GO TO SECOND GRADE -

covers nouns and pronouns, verbs, adjectives)

Practice singular possessive nouns plus lots more

pronoun jeopardy

online dictionary

PHONETIC PRACTICE/SPELLING

Phonics lessons

spelling rules we cover

PRACTICE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLURAL SPELLINGS( y to i-add es plus others) 

More plural practice

Correctly spelling misspelled words

Vowel sounds, Diagraphs, Diphthongs

R-Controlled vowels

R-Controlled vowels

Syllables

LOOK, COVER, SPELL

Spelling sight words

Spelling with S and ES

Spelling with S and ES

WORD WORK

Compound words

Compound words

Compound words

Can you spell contractions correctly?

Contractions

Contractions

Synonyms and Antonyms

Antonyms and Synonyms

Synonym match

Antonyms

Antonym match

Root words/Base words

Prefixes

Suffixes

Identify prefix/suffix

ABC order

more ABC order games

Homophones

Homophones - pencil & paper practice

Homophones A - L practice

Homophones M - Z

Test yourself on homophones

To, Two, Too practice

They're, There, Their practice

More they're, their, there practice

Homograph Jeopardy

READING

Inferring

More inferring practice

Write a book review

Tell me about the character in your book

Fluency builders

More fluency building stories

More stories for building fluency

Parts of a book

Parts of a book

Parts of a book

Parts of a book

High frequency reading words

Word list practice

SECOND GRADE SIGHT WORDS

Unscramble words to "Jack and Jill"

Build a sentence

Build correct word order in sentences

Sentence word order

Story/comprehension questions

Online chapter stories

Main idea practice

Facts and opinions

Sequencing

Sequencing

MATH

WHEN YOU THINK YOU KNOW IT ALL - QUIZ YOURSELF HERE

Understand number comparisons using a balance scale

Explanation for parents on How to use Thinking Blocks to solve Word Problems

Explanation of more difficult problems using thinking blocks

SOLVE WORD PROBLEMS USING THINKING BLOCKS

INDEPENDENT WORD PROBLEM PRACTICE USING THINKING BLOCKS

This is exactly how I teach subtraction with regrouping

Subtraction-- from start to finish Paint and practice math facts

subtraction machine

Keep those addition skills up(select hard skill level) 

Rounding to the nearest ten

DOUBLE DIGIT ADDITION/SUBTRACTION (may use Touchpoint Math)

Double digit subtraction practice with and without regrouping

MONEY

Count money

The hardest level allows for counting change back practice.

More practice counting change


GEOMETRY

Explore geometric shapes

Get some practice with geometric terms

Shapes with Right Angles

Virtual Tangrams  

Polygon Playground

Explore Geometric Solids

Try your hand at Tessellating

Investigate shapes with pattern blocks

geometric solids

TIME

Move the hands on the clock

Tell time

Telling time to 5 minutes

HEALTH

Healthy food choices

Can you make the right food choices?

Lab activity - make good choices

MY PYRAMID BLAST OFF GAME!!

SCIENCE

E-BOOK (ONLINE SCIENCE TEXT)

What is energy?

Energy vocabulary wordsearch

The source of energy

Do you want to know how wind becomes electricity?

Types of energy

Take the super energy challenge

Find out how people who work around electricity stay safe

Sound

Energy computer labs activities 

activity pages to go with above site    

pushes and pulls lab activity

lab quiz- pushes and pulls

Push/pull online activity (lab)

What makes it move? (lab activity)

SOCIAL STUDIES

Variety of Social Studies related activities

Vocabulary game - America's past

Own your own lemonade business - Economics


October 08, 2008

Main idea Reading Lab

Tutorial - main idea

Main Idea online practice

September 17, 2008

ECONOMICS (Goods and Services)- COMPUTER LAB ACTIVITIES

Delivering the goods

http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM197&page=teacher

Woof! Woof!  At your service

http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM194

Goods and services

http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM642&page=teacher

September 01, 2008

Social Studies

Compass Rose (pencil and paper)

Map skills (key)

ECONOMICS-Which chips would you buy?

Economics wants, scarcity when making choices

Computer lab activity - Choice, Decision making, Economic wants, Scarcity

Oceans

Continents

Our Social Studies textbook is now online:

http://www.eduplace.com/eservices/

username: cobbstudent2

password: password

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