Reminders:
No school Monday, January 20, 2025 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Want to volunteer? Here is the Pease Mountain sign up! Please make sure to read the top section before you sign up. We would love to offer a few winter hikes. Thank you!
Winter has arrived! Please support your child to have weather appropriate clothing. Please, please, please label your child’s belongings.
CCS is participating in the NexTrex Challenge. We are attempting to collect 1,000 pounds of certain types of plastic by May 15, 2025.So far, we have collected over 700 pounds! Want to learn more? Click here! Want to participate? Please collect the types of plastic in this visual and have your child bring them to CCS.
Math: Second grade mathematicians are working with the core idea: I can make sense of and solve story problems with addition and subtraction. This works includes:
Identifying key information in story problems
Creating and solving two digit addition and subtraction story problems
Using place value to solve two digit addition and subtraction problems
One way to help with this at home is to share when story problems are actually happening! For example, while creating a meal, explain what you are doing in a way that highlights the math you are doing. This might look like:
“I am making muffins. I need to crack five eggs. I have cracked two. How many eggs do I have left to crack?”
“I am making cupcakes for 48 people. I have made 23 cupcakes so far. How many more cupcakes do I need to make?”
“At the grocery store we need to buy bread and butter. Bread costs $4.00 and butter costs $6.00. How much money will we spend in all?” (Working with money? At this point, please round to the nearest whole dollar for your second grader!)
“I have 32 cards and you have 16 cards. How many fewer cards do you have than I have?”
Word Study: Second graders have wrapped up unit 6 and begun unit 7. Unit 6 taught students how to use the vowel-consonant-e syllable type in their own writing. They also practiced reading and writing one-syllable and multisyllabic words, reading & writing words with affixes (prefixes and suffixes) as well as the meaning of several familiar affixes. Unit 7 will introduce a new spelling pattern, the open syllable. Something interesting about this syllable type is that y has gained a new role as a vowel. Students learned that y as a vowel can make the long i sound in one syllable words, for example why, try, cry, and shy.
Writers’ Workshop: We hope you have enjoyed ‘Cups of Love’! As we’ve entered 2025, our second grade writers have focused on learning about contractions and thinking about 2025. Students created a 2025 flip book with reflections of 2024 and aspirations for 2025. They also worked with a mini unit about contractions. Students also got a sneak peek of our next writing unit…opinion writing!
Readers’ Workshop: We have wrapped up our Power Up! Next Level Word Solving Skills unit! Throughout this unit, students learned about the six syllable types in the English language as well as syllable division patterns. In your child’s homeschool folder you will find a helpful anchor chart to support your child as they tackle longer words at home. When supporting your child to decode at home, please help them use one strategy and possibly two. If those do not work, please give them the word and move on. At home, the goal of reading is enjoyment! Students will work hard on things they are invested in. We do not want them to get to the point that they are so frustrated that they do not want to put in the work.
SEL/Theme: In Second Step we are continuing to focus on Empathy. This week we also worked to learn even more about the members of our community by creating Penguin Glyphs!
Science: Second grade scientists began our new unit… Pebbles, Sand, and Silt. We started our work with an introductory lesson focused on rocks. We watched a Bill Nye video that shared a ton of information about the rock cycle, rock changes over time, and more!
Quiet Time: Our students have ‘traveled’ far these past two weeks!
Check out some recent photos!
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