Reminders:
No school for students Monday, February 24 - Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Students return to CCS on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
Before heading back to school, please help ensure your child is ready by making sure they have a water bottle & indoor shoes at school (these may stay in school) and have weather appropriate outdoor clothing.
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!
We are excited to connect during caregiver conferences! Please sign up using the sign up forms found in your email.
Please include Cindy LaWare (claware@cvsdvt.org) AND your child’s teacher on all emails regarding attendance/dismissal plans.
Math: This week in math, we explored measurement using both standard and non-standard units. Students worked with “inchworms,” “footworms,” and “yardworms” to measure objects and then used those measurements to estimate the height of larger items. Inspired by Jim and the Beanstalk, we imagined giant-sized measurements and discussed how many of one unit would fit into a larger measurement. Through hands-on activities, students practiced using their understanding of smaller units—both familiar measurements like inches and feet, as well as creative, non-standard units—to calculate the heights of bigger objects. Ask your child how they figured out the height of a tall item using a smaller one!
Word Study: We completed unit 8 and began unit 9. In this new unit second graders will learn about the next group of r-controlled vowels, er, ir, and ur. This week we learned the keywords that match these vowels; er-her-/ər/, ir-bird-/ər/, and ur-burn-/ər/. We used a familiar strategy to help us know which r-controlled vowel to use when spelling words with the /ər/ sound. The spelling options procedure that we used for /s/ and /z/ came in handy this week. This spelling pattern is trickier but we feel confident using our tools and strategies to help us figure it out!
Writers’ Workshop: What wonderful celebration! Thank you so much for making our Opinion Writing Open House such a joyful experience for our students. We are so grateful for this community.
Readers’ Workshop:
We are working to learn about, and apply, reading strategies to support our reading of nonfiction. Students are focusing on strategies to tackle both the tricky word work and vocabulary development they need to navigate nonfiction reading. It’s been fun learning the vocabulary of different topics!
SEL/Theme:
February is Kindness Month in second grade. Each week we focus on a different aspect of kindness and connect it to our CCS expectations of taking care of ourselves, others, and this place as well as our second grade mantra: We are all the same. We are all different. We are all unique. Last week’s lesson focused on sharing kindness with others. Second graders looked at powerful quotes that demonstrated kindness towards others. Our second grade squad was inspired by the following quote from Maya Angelou, “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud”. We then created rainbows by using recycled construction paper, watercolor paint and cotton balls. Take a look below to see their amazing creations!
This week’s lesson focused on taking care of this place! Our squad read The Color Of Us by Karen Katz. The Color Of Us inspired our second graders to celebrate the world’s uniqueness by creating a globe with recycled construction paper and paint.
Quiet Time: Our students have ‘traveled’ far these past two weeks!
