Reminders:
Family conferences begin next week. Google meet links will be on the family conference sign up sheet.
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 be aware that the state updates this website daily. Guidance can change and it is important that we are all on the same page.
No school Friday, March 19th.
Math: We started a new unit in math! This unit will focus on place value to one thousand. In our first module, students will work on imagining, visualizing, and counting the number 1000, building place value understanding up to 1000, and adding and subtracting by 10 within 200. In addition to our new unit, we also started to work on our new March calendar. This month, our calendar will focus on 3-dimensional shapes. Students will work on identifying 3-dimensional shapes and the vocabulary: face, edge, vertex.
Writers’ Workshop: Second graders are experts on many topics! This week, we began our new writing unit focused on nonfiction writing. During our first bend, students will use all they know to write many books, spending only a day or two on each book before moving on to a new one...writers study other nonfiction authors, noticing the interesting and cool things they do to teach in their books, and trying those moves on right away.
Word Study: Second graders studied multisyllabic words searching for and identifying words that had open syllables, closed syllables, v-e syllables, and exceptions and combinations of said syllables. Students also continued their work with the vowel y. When writing and reading words students remembered that when a multisyllabic word ends with the long e sound it is y that says the long e. Students also remembered and worked with y when it is at the end of a one syllable, open syllable word it says the long i sound. On top of all that, second graders learned 5 new prefixes! Check out the chart below to see the new, open-syllable prefixes, their meaning, and an example.
Students compared these open-syllable prefixes to the closed syllable prefixes they learned in unit 5.
Reader’s Workshop: Second grade readers are working hard to read longer books. This week, we began our new reading unit, ‘Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power.’ Our first bend will focus on fluency. During this bend, students will learn not only to pay attention to their own reading voices but also to listen to the voices of the characters, reading those voices the way the author intended. To make a book sound right, readers must consider what it is about.
Theme: This week, students worked on two additional lessons in our third Second Step unit, Emotion Management. Students worked to learn more about how to calm down when they feel strong feelings. They stop, name their feelings, and decide a way to help them calm down (belly breathing, positive self talk). Using positive self-talk can help you calm down when you feel worried and anxious about something. Students also practiced calming down angry feelings. Once you’re calm, you can think clearly about what to do next. Then being assertive can help you get what you want or need in a respectful way.
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