Reminders:
No school, Thursday, October 10, 2024 or Friday, October 11, 2024.
We are looking for two Pease Mountain ‘Lead’ volunteers. If you are able to volunteer two Tuesdays a month from 11:45-1:15, please reach out to your child’s teacher.
Supply request: Cough drops If you are able to donate cough drops to our communal supply it would be greatly appreciated!
Math: Our mathematicians are working to develop fluency with number facts to 20. One way we have done this is by using subtraction as a process of finding the difference between two quantities. Our squad learned two new games to support this concept; Battling Bugs and Find the Difference. Students have also been working with the strategies of doubles facts (ex: 7+7=14) and doubles plus/minus one (ex: 7+8 = 15 because 7+7+1 = 15). They are working to connect these strategies to the concept of even & odd numbers.
Word Study: Our second graders have reviewed a lot of important concepts and information during the first unit of word study. We ended the week with a review day to solidify these skills and will put them to the test next week with our end of unit assessment. For more information about this unit please check out the Unit 1 Family Support Letter on our blog’s main page.
Writers’ Workshop: Our narrative writers are learning from mentor authors. We are studying beautifully written books to discover what is powerful, why it is powerful, and how the author writes in a way to make it powerful. Students are discovering many craft moves from mentor authors and trying those moves out in their own writing! Jane Yolen’s Owl Moon has taught us a lot! Second grade writers are also working to revise their work with intention, making sure the craft moves they are trying add to their story.
Readers’ Workshop: Our readers are working hard! We are continuing to focus on comprehension of stories by working to retell using our five finger retell strategy This week, students began to focus on synthesizing information to get at a bigger idea within the beginning, middle, and/or end of the book. While reading The Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch, students worked to put specific details into a larger idea by connecting a character’s requests into the understanding that the character was actually tricking the dragon.
SEL/Theme:This week we launched our Second Step curriculum. Social emotional learning is essential for individual and group success. The lessons we learn about from Second Step teach us how to learn as well as how to get along with others. This year we will focus on four major skill sets. Skills for Learning, Empathy, Emotional Management, and Problem Solving. This week’s lesson focused on respect. In our second grade learning communities we learned being respectful is important because it helps children be better learners. We also learned that there are many ways to be respectful in a learning environment. Some ideas we discussed included; being kind and polite, taking turns, paying attention and listening to the speaker, and using nonverbal/hand signals to let others know what we need/want. Take a moment to ask your second grader what is respect and why is it important to be respectful to others?
September 15 - October 15 is Latinx Heritage Month. Want to learn more about Latinx/Hispanic Heritage month? Click here to watch the video your children saw!
This week’s project was inspired by Pablo Piccaso’s artwork.
Science: We had our first science lesson of the year! Curiosity is at the core of science. This week our second graders began to wonder about the world around them. Our science launch started by asking, ‘How do scientists know so much?’ Together we explored this question and determined that scientists ask questions, make observations, record what they see and ask more questions. Questioning leads scientists to observe more, conduct investigations & experiments and record their findings. Scientists are curious! We got curious about our hands, taking time to observe them, sketch them, ask questions, and collaborate with peers to share our noticings and questions. It was an exciting and engaging way to start our journey as scientists!
Quiet Time: Our students have ‘traveled’ far these past two weeks!
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