Reminders:
No school Tuesday, November 11, 2026 in observance of Diwali.
With cooler fall weather here, please label your child’s jackets, sweatshirts, and other layers so we can easily return any items that get left behind. Thank you!
If you would like to volunteer to lead a Pease Mountain hike, please check out the Pease Mountain sign up. We are in desperate need of more volunteers!
Word Study: It has been so exciting to see and experience the connection between readers’ workshop and word study this week! This week we have been practicing finding, reading, building, writing, and marking-up words. A specific and special focus has been placed on base words and affixes. Affixes are additions to a base word that can clarify or change the meaning of the base word. In word study we have been focusing on suffixes and their meanings. Our squad has been working on spelling single closed syllable words with suffixes: -s, -es, -ed, -er, -est, and -ing.
Readers’ Workshop: We have begun our ‘Power Up! Next Level Word Solving Skills’ unit. In the first group of lessons, students will be introduced to the six syllable types in the English language. Students will also be learning to identify common prefixes & suffixes in order to determine the base word. When decoding, syllable types & syllable division patterns are used with base words. So far, students have learned about closed syllables and the closed syllable exceptions.
Writers’ Workshop: What a celebration! Thank you to our community for coming together to celebrate the culmination of our narrative writing unit.
Math: Our second graders have been having fun using unifix cubes to measure! Students have been working to attend to precision as they measure different objects. Second graders also had fun making another glyph to represent information about themselves! For this glyph, students built a scarecrow to share information about their feelings on different fall activities.
Science: We are continuing our work with properties of matter. Students continued to work with the concepts of matter, materials, properties, and classifying. Students chose an object and then wrote three clues about the object using different properties of the object. They then shared their clues to see if their classmates could determine the object they had chosen. We had a blast!
SEL/Theme: We wrapped up our first unit in Second Step… Skills for Learning. Throughout this unit, students learn to listen, focus attention, use self talk, and be assertive. Second graders began our second unit, which focuses on empathy, this week by working to name feelings, decide whether those feelings are comfortable or uncomfortable, and to think about how faces, bodies, and situations give us clues about feelings.
Project: November is Native American Heritage Month. During our project block we learned about Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and created artwork inspired by her.
Quiet Time Vacations: We've traveled far these last two weeks!
