Reminders:
- No school Monday, November 23 - Friday, November 27
- We want to keep your children and our community safe. We are asking that all families be vigilant.
- If you travel, you must follow all VT Department of Health guidelines for travel & quarantine.
- If you host any person from out-of-state, you must follow all VT Department of Health guidelines. Please refer to the most recent update from our superintendent, Elaine Pinckney for specific guidance.
- Please read the CCS newsletter and Superintendent Updates closely. These are full of very important information. The CVSD Reopening Site is also a wealth of information.
- Please look through your child’s home school folder and remove previous work and any family letters.
- Please remember that your child’s math toolkit and letter tiles stay at home. They should be using these on their remote days.
Second grade mathematicians began a new unit in math. This unit will focus heavily on place value concepts in 2 & 3 digit numbers, using place value to add and subtract, and using place value to compare numbers. Students began with the core ideas:
I can show how three digit numbers are composed, or made up, of hundreds, tens, and ones.
I can count and compare 3-digit numbers.
As part of our morning meeting, we include calendar work and routines that support important second grade mathematical concepts. This month, we are working with telling time using analog & digital clocks and calculating elapsed time. These are concepts that take a lot of practice!
In reader’s workshop, we began the second bend in our ‘Second Grade Reading Growth Spurts’ unit! The second bend focuses on working hard to solve tricky words. Early in the week, it was just so beautiful we read outside!
Writers were busy this week! We continued to learn craft moves from one of our favorite authors, Jane Yolen. We are working hard to try out some of Jane’s craft moves in our own small moment writing!
Second graders began a new unit in word study. This unit reviews the suffixes -s, -es, -ed & -ing. We will also introduce the concept of vowel vs. consonant suffixes and teach the new suffixes -er & -est. These new suffixes are used to compare things; -er compares two things while -est compares three. When we write words with suffixes, we take the suffix off, determine the base word, write the base word and only after we have the base word do we add the suffix. This week’s snap words include: animal, again, please.
We used our theme time this week to teach two more Second Steps lessons. We worked on focusing attention and following directions. We practiced focusing attention and blocking distractions by using our attento-scopes. To focus our attention, we use our eyes, ears, and brains. It is important to focus your attention and listen to all the directions to help you know what to do in class, and outside of school. One way to help remember directions is to quietly repeat them to ourselves. When we repeat directions, it really helps us learn and know what to do.
Second graders enjoyed the warm weather early in the work! We tried to savor the warmth and sunshine to its fullest!
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