Reminders:
No school Monday, January 18th in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Please remember to follow the expectations outlined by the VT DOH at all times. We want your children to be able to continue to be together, in person. This will take each and everyone of us to make this happen.
Please remember that we try to go outside everyday. Support your children to have weather appropriate clothing and footwear.
Please check your child’s extra clothing supplies
Survey Results: Thank you so much for providing your feedback in regards to Wednesday Remote Schedules. The results are in! At this time, we will continue our remote schedules as they are as the data shows they are ‘just right’ for the majority of our students.
Math: We are moving into our third math unit of the year! For more information on this unit, please look in your child’s home school folder for the introduction letter. Students will be working to flexibly solve addition and subtraction within 100 and place value through ones, tens, and hundreds. One way to support your child is to focus on meaning. Word problems will be incorporated in our work. It is important that students are able to conceptually understand the work by thinking about the math work involved in a situation.
Reader’s Workshop: This week, second graders wrapped up ‘Power Up! Next Level Word Solving Skills.’ We have worked on the six syllable types and five common syllable division patterns. Second graders are becoming extremely flexible word solvers! Our next unit of study will focus on ‘Becoming Experts’, nonfiction reading strategies.
Writer’s Workshop: Second grade poets have been working hard! This week, our core ideas were:
Poets consider the mood they want to convey. They ask, ‘Does the mood match the meaning?’
One way poets make meaning is to compare an object or feeling - or anything at all - to something else.
One way poets make comparisons more powerful is to stretch it across the poem by adding in actions that go with the comparison.
Word Study: Second graders are learning A LOT about the English Language! This week, we wrapped up our fifth word study unit and began our sixth. Our new unit will focus on writing two closed & VCe syllable words with and without consonant suffixes and writing words with the VCe syllable exception -ive. At this point, students should be applying the following spelling patterns independently:
Second Grade Word Study Core Ideas:
Unit One
I can write words with digraphs and digraph blends, including -ck.
I can write closed syllables.
Unit Two
I can write words with the bonus letters f, l, s, (z).
I can write words with ng/nk glued sounds.
Unit 3
I can write words with the closed syllable exceptions: ild, ind, old, olt, ost.
Unit 4
I can categorize suffixes as consonant or vowel suffixes.
I can isolate the base word from the suffix in reading or writing.
I can write words using the suffixes -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -est, -er to unchanging base words.
Unit 5
I can segment a two syllable word into its syllables.
I can write words using the suffixes -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -est, -er, -ful, -ment, -ness, -less, -able, -en, & -ish to unchanging base words.
SEL / Theme: ‘We are all the same. We are all different. We are all unique.’ Our second grade mantra is an important lens as we talk about social justice. We are working with students to think about social justice in relation to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s work as well as how these conversations are present today. We watched a few videos (linked below) that connect directly to MLK. We also listened to many read alouds inspired by our conversations on social justice. If you would like to add books to your library at home, we found the website for Social Justice Books, very helpful in our search.
PBS About the Holidays: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
I Have a Dream speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Second graders also continued their work with our Social Emotional Learning program, Second Step. In this week’s lessons we continued to expand students’ awareness of how feelings work. That awareness improves their ability to understand their own and others’ feelings by helping them explore ways feelings can change. Inviting and welcoming are important skills that can help students build friendships and avoid being left out or feeling ostracized. This week’s lesson helped students with the concept that people may have different feelings about the same situation at different times. We also recognized that our feelings change over time. We also learned the power of being a welcoming and inviting person, because that can change people’s feelings for the better!
Second graders are also working to identify how their bodies are feeling. There are times when we need to increase our energy and times when we need to decrease our energy. Second graders continue to use Mindfulness and Movement to help regulate our bodies throughout the day!
Check out some photos from this week! (There are fewer than week's past, we were too busy having fun and working hard!)
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