Reminders:
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.
Family conferences sign ups are here! Please sign up for a time slot. If you have any questions, please let us know.
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.We recommend packing 2-3 extra pairs of socks so that your child can change into dry ones after outside time.
Math: We are working hard to make sense of and solve story problems! This week, students explored the core idea: I can make sense of and solve story problems with addition and subtraction. Second graders have learned to read the story problem, picture what is happening, write an equation, show their thinking, and then answer the question in a complete sentence. We are often using three tools to help us show our thinking: open number line, shorthand, and the splitting strategy.
Reader’s Workshop: We started the third and final bend of our ‘Becoming Experts’ nonfiction reading unit. This bend sets readers up to grow knowledge across texts as they read topic sets of texts, comparing, contrasting, and connecting information across texts and text sets and doing the vocabulary work that accompanies nonfiction reading. We are certainly growing our knowledge!
Word Study: This week, students began our seventh unit of study in word study. This unit introduces students to spelling with open syllables. An open syllable has one vowel that is at the end of the syllable. The vowel sound is long. Examples of open syllables are: hi, flu, so. We are also learning when y is a vowel. We have learned that y says the long i sound when it is used as the vowel in a one open syllable word. Examples of y as a vowel in this pattern are: sky, fly, cry.
Writer’s Workshop: Writers took time to show what they know in one final poem We also began our mini-unit on letter writing. We will use these skills next week, too!
Theme: This week, second graders began the third unit of Second Step, emotion management. We learned what happens in our brains and bodies when we feel strong feelings. Students used their hands to model this. Ask your child how they can use their hand to show the feeling and thinking parts of their brain, and what happens when their feelings take over and ‘flip their lid.’ We talked about how our bodies may feel uncomfortable when our feelings take over. We can focus our attention on our bodies for clues about how we feel. When we recognize our feelings, the thinking part of our brains can start to manage them.
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