*Early dismissal: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Last day of Q2 is this Friday, December 18th!
*Online students: make sure you check Google Classroom and turn in any missing assignments
*School resumes: Wednesday, January 6th
* January 8th: Simple Machine written report and game are both due. Make sure your report is written in your best handwriting!
Attention parents of students online: 2nd Grade will host a book pick up on Tuesday, 12/15. Students who are remaining online for Semester 2 will pick Singapore Math books for second semester as well as a bag of activities for the last 3 days of school. Students who will be returning to Brick and Mortar will only be picking up the activity bag for the last 3 days of school. Please come to pick up these items from the front office between the hours of 8:30am-2pm.
This week we will be learning the following:
Writing: Types of Topic Sentences
Reading: Text Features
Grammar: Adjectives
Math: Understanding Multiplication and Division. Unit test Friday. *A review will be sent home on Thursday. Students are showing mastery of multiplication and division in pictorial form.
Science: Finish Digestive System
History: continue Ancient India Unit
Please note that next week we have 3 half days. Wednesday, 12/16, Thursday, 12/17, and Friday 12/18 are all half day dismissal.
Students return on Wednesday, January 6th.
Parent conferences this quarter are by teacher invitation or parent request. Invitations for parent conferences will be sent out on 12/16. If you would like to request a conference, please reach out to your child’s teacher.
Reminder, all students will participate in Online Learning Monday, 11/30-Wednesday, 12/2. On site students, please remember to bring the following materials back to school with you on Thursday:
Math books, Pink Spalding Notebook, Agenda, orange folder, Monday and Wednesday Math homework, Rocket Math Packet, Sarah Plain and Tall book, 2 Spalding packets (the WPR, Thursday, and test packet and the HW packet), morning work packet (optional)
This week we will be learning:
Writing: Brainstorming Main idea and details of a paragraph
Science: Human Body-Digestive System
Math: Introduction to Division
Literature: Determining important information; Sarah Plain and Tall
History: Ancient India
Grammar: Adverbs; introduction to parsing sentences
Poem: Students have been assigned one stanza, plus the entire class will recite the last stanza. Please see the Poem Tab on this blog to acces this this month’s poem.
We apologize for the missing blog last week. Some weeks just get away from us.
Please read through the overview of the next couple weeks:
As it is getting colder, we are seeing an increase in jacket wearing. Scholars can only wear non-uniform jackets during outdoor activities. If your child still feels they need a jacket indoors, it must be a uniform jacket. No other jackets are allowed indoors.
Next Friday, 11/13, we will have our mid-year Galileo testing. Students that are in person will be taking their tests as part of the school day. Curriculum has been modified for the week to accommodate testing. Online students will have to log into the test AND on Zoom at 8:45 AND 12:15. Please look out for more information from Ms. Bachman.
We will begin learning about Multiplication and Division in math next week. This is a new skill that we spend a lot of time on in second grade. Multiplication and division will span into third quarter.
Our poem, Something Told the Wild Geese will be recited on 11/23. We will be getting our final poem, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, passed out the next day on 11/24. It is formatted differently than the other poems we do, so be on the lookout for that.
Tuesday, 11/24 will be an action packed day for us. There will be a virtual assembly about perseverance. Each class will spend time playing a game as a reward for the read-a-thon. We will also be celebrating the end of The Cricket in Times Square and the end of our Ancient China unit with fun activities and treats. Please look out from a message from your class’s liaison with a sign-up for supplies.
11/24 will also be Mrs. Duran’s last day prior to going on maternity leave. Mrs. Tiner will be stepping in as lead for 2A until her return. Ms. Dulaigh has been hired to assist Mrs. Tiner until Mrs. Duran returns fourth quarter. We appreciate all your encouragement and support during yet another transition this year.
11/25-11/27 there is no school due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. That weekend is R and R as well. We are so thankful to be part of your school community. We hope you enjoy time with your family and get plenty of rest and relaxation.
Thank you for all that you do to support our school. We appreciate you all.
– The Second Grade Team
I hope that everyone enjoyed Literary Character Day as much as we did. Thank you to the readers who read to us over Zoom and the families that provided us snacks. We really appreciate all you did to make the day feel special.
Update on RAZ Kids- Since second grade is more concerned with comprehension than with how many books a student reads, we will not be leveling up through the amount of books read, but through how they are comprehending the books that they read. Please be aware that if you child reads several books, the program may level them up, but we may adjust their level again depending on where we feel is the best fit.
A Week at a Glance:
Poetry: Something Told the Wild Geese by Rachel Field- recited on November 23rd.
Reading: Our small group, leveled reading groups will begin this week. Our first focus will be pausing at punctuation. We will be focusing on routines surrounding our groups this week. There will not be addition reading instruction.
Grammar: We will continue to study verb tenses.
Writing: We will continue to learn how to write a friendly letter.
Math: Our unit on measuring and length.
History: We will continue to learn about ancient China.
Science: Our human body unit will continue by a brief overview of the respiratory, circulatory, and muscular systems.
It is hard to believe that we are almost to the end of October. How is it that this is the longest year ever but time seems to be flying by?
Literary Character Day
Friday, October 30th is Literary Character Day. This is the culmination of our Read-a-thon. That means this is the last week to log reading minutes for the Read-a-thon.
In person students will celebrate the day with literary costumes, reading in the dark, and eating some treats. Please look out for a sign up from your class’s liaison for supplies needed. Please have your child bring a flashlight and stuffed animal for our reading in the dark time. Due to distancing, we will not be able have blankets or pillows brought in. If you have not yet gotten costume approval from your teacher about your student’s teacher, please reach out ASAP. Students who have not received approval will not be able to dress up.
Online students will be celebrating as well. Please submit your costume approval on Google Classroom. Students who do not receive approval or are dressed inappropriately, will not be able to be on Zoom in their costumes. Please look out for more information coming from Ms. Bachman.
Reading Homework
We will be sending home log-ins for RAZ Kids on Monday. This is the first year that second grade is using this program. Because of this, we may be using it differently than it was used in the past. In second grade, we move more away from fluency and really focus on comprehension skills. Your child will be assigned a book and a comprehension quiz on every Monday. It should be completed by Thursday. Unlike other grades, the advancement to the next level will not be contingent on how many books they read at a certain level. As this is the first time that second grade is using this program, please be patient with us as we figure out how this program best fits our needs.
Week at a Glance:
Reading: We will be working on asking questions while we are reading.
Writing: We are going to begin our unit on writing friendly letters.
Grammar: We will begin to learn about verb tenses.
Poetry: Our next poem “Something Told the Wild Geese” by Rachel Field will be going home Monday. It will be recited on November 23rd.
Literature: We are going to continue to read “The Cricket in Times Square”. If your child has not brought into school or they do not have access to it at home, please get it for them ASAP.
Math: We are going to finish our unit on Addition and Subtraction with renaming. There will be a test on Friday.
Science: We will begin our overview of our body’s organ systems.
History: We will continue our unit on ancient China.
Thank you for your continued understanding and support. Please reach out if you have any further questions.
The Second Grade Team
Hello Second Grade Families!
We hope everyone had a wonderful Fall Break and we have been excited to welcome back our scholars into Quarter 2!
Here are a few updates from our first week back:
-If you are transitioning from Distance to In-Person Learning, please make sure that all of your scholar’s supplies make it back to school. You can see the full supply list HERE.
-Please also note that all classes will be starting our next novel, The Cricket in Times Square. Please make sure your scholar is prepared by having it in class with them or available at home for Distance Learning.
-As a reminder, Part 1 of our Simple Machines Project is due Friday 10/23. Your scholar should have come home with a copy of our Parent Letter and Part 1 -or- seen it posted on Google Classroom. This will also be available on the Parent Resource Portal section of our website.
Next Week:
Math: We will continue with Addition and Subtraction with Renaming.
ELA: Look for more on The Writing Process, Collective Nouns, and Making Connections in Reading
History: We are starting a new unit on Ancient China!
Science: Our journey with Cells will continue while looking at the different cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems our bodies have.
Literature: As mentioned, we will start our new novel, The Cricket in Times Square!
Thank you to all of our families who have remained so flexible and encouraging. We had a wonderful time meeting with so many of you over Quarter 1 Conferences.
Best,
The Second Grade Team
We are in the last week of the quarter. It has both been the fastest quarter ever and seemed to drag on indefinitely.
Announcements:
Our Week at a Glance:
Hello again.
It is hard to believe that we are nearing the end of the quarter. The next two weeks are busy and I am sure will fly by.
Announcements:
Galileo Testing:
Greek Day/ Boxcar Children Book Talk:
Water Bottles:
Please make sure you student has a water bottle everyday. Most water fountains are closed to prevent the spread of germs. A hand’s free water bottle filler will be installed in the next couple weeks.
A Glance at Our Week:
Hello. Once again, we thank you for your patience and understanding. As teachers, we are perfectionists at heart and it is hard for us to have so much not go according to plan as this year has presented. However, we are forging ahead and trying to do better each week. We are still in continual transition but feeling that we are getting more of a rhythm. If you stumbled upon our mistakes, thank you for alerting us with kindness. If you didn’t notice anything go wrong, maybe we are better at covering than we realize.
We do not have school again on Monday, September 14 due to teacher in service. There will be no school (in person or online). We will see you on Tuesday.
If you have not brought in an art shirt, please send in an old shirt that can be used for messy art projects. If your child’s art shirt came back home, please send it back in to school.
A Glance at Our Week:
Grammar: We will continue with learning about singular and plural nouns by adding “es” to make some nouns plural.
Reading: We will start sequencing. We will use the words first, next, then, and last.
Writing: We will work on writing strong sentences in preparation for learning about paragraph writing.
Spalding: We will have fewer words again this week due to being out of school Monday.
Math: We will be adding 2 and 3 digit numbers without renaming.
Science: We will continue learning about Simple Machines.
History: We will continue our unit on Greece.
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