Reminders:
No school for students Monday, February 24 - Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Students return to CCS on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
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: Our second grade mathematicians continue to focus on measurement. We have focused on measuring in inches, feet, and yards, as well as comparing objects. Students are working to understand that there are 12 inches in a foot and 3 feet in a yard. To help with this concept we read another part of the “Jim and the Beanstalk” story that introduced a new character, the Footworm! The Footworm is no ordinary creature, it looks identical to its non-magical relative the inchworm, but is exactly one foot in length! We used both our inchworm ruler and our footworm cut out to measure various objects around the classroom. We discovered that while both tools were helpful in measuring whole feet, the inchworm came in handy when it came to measuring with precision.
Word Study: We began our eighth unit in word study! During this unit, we introduced r-controlled syllables as a spelling pattern for second graders. We were excited to be reintroduced to “bossy r” from our previous reading unit, Power Up!, which emphasized using decoding strategies in reading. We learned the keywords and sounds that go with ar and or. (ar-car-/ar/, or-horn-/or/). Students were introduced to spelling patterns for or & ore. We reinforced the importance of hearing each part of a word when attempting to spell. We did some dictation practice to hear, decode, and encode (spell) the words that included ar and or.
Writers’ Workshop: We wrapped up the second bend of our opinion writing unit. During this bend, our work was to have students focus on giving evidence to support their reasons and include strong/precise language to convince their audience to agree with their opinion. We worked to be more convincing!
Readers’ Workshop: Second graders are learning strategies for nonfiction reading as we embark on our ‘Becoming Experts’ reading unit. This week, students focused on growing their knowledge as they pay attention to details, put parts of text together, and ask questions while reading nonfiction texts.
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. Our first lesson introduced the comparison of kindness to light. We reflected on the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and then created a lightbulb art activity to spread our light into the world. Our second activity focused on how we take care of our own light; the idea of kindness to yourself as a precursor to being kind to others. We reflected on quotes by Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey, and Sogyal Rinpoche and then brainstormed what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like when we are kind to ourselves. We then grew our self kindness by creating sunflowers focused on self kindness.
100th Day: We celebrated the 100th Day of School! K-4 participated in a 100th Day Kindness Challenge! Second graders also created 100 hearts to celebrate 100 things we love about CCS!
Science: Our geologists continued to explore the question, ‘What happens when rocks rub together?’ We learned about erosion, weathering, sediment, and sand. Students had fun rubbing rocks together!
Quiet Time: Our students have ‘traveled’ far these past two weeks!
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