Reminders:
No school, Monday, March 31, 2025.
We are looking for volunteers to lead Pease Mountain hikes on Tuesday, May 13 & 27. Here is the Pease Mountain sign up! Please make sure to read the top section before you sign up. Thank you!
Supply Request: Does your family love Talenti? If so, we’d love to collect your empty Talenti containers. Please send in your clean Talenti container(s) to your child’s teacher. Thank you!
Math: Our second grade mathematicians have been working with place value and extending their knowledge to one thousand. During our first group of lessons, students:
Imagining, visualizing, and counting the number 1000
Building place value understanding up to 1000
Adding and subtracting by 10 within 200
This week we have begun thinking about place value with money. Students are:
Developing place value understanding within the context of money
Skip counting forwards and backwards by 5s and 10s off the decade
Solve addition and subtraction story problems with money
Word Study: We launched our work with spelling of double vowel syllables. In our current unit, students are focusing on the spelling of /ā/ using the vowel teams ai and ay.
Writers’ Workshop: Our writing community is working on nonfiction, or information, writing. Second graders learned that writers study other nonfiction authors, noticing the interesting and cool things those writers do to teach, and trying those moves on right away in their own writing. We have a lot of knowledge in our squad!
Readers’ Workshop: We are into our next reading unit, ‘Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power.’ This unit is broken into four bends, or groups of lessons. During our first bend, students worked to read with increased fluency. As we move into our second bend, our focus will be strategies for understanding literary language.
SEL/Theme: Over the last two weeks, second graders have continued their work with Emotion Management. Last week students practiced calming down angry feelings. They explored why it is important to calm down, ways to calm down, and how, once you are calm, you can think clearly about what to do next. We reviewed how being assertive can help you get what you want or need in a respectful way. This week, students focused on using calm down strategies to help them stay focused and on task. We explored how once you are calm, you can stay focused by using positive self-talk. Positive self-talk helps you finish a task so you can do the things you really want to do.
Science: We wrapped up our unit focused on an important Vermont resource… the sugar maple! During this unit, students focused on:
I can identify a sugar maple tree.
I can sequence the steps to make maple syrup.
I can explain one way maple sugaring is different today than in the past.
I can explore one way maple sugaring may change in the future.
I can explain one way the sugar maple helps our state’s economy.
Quiet Time: Our students have ‘traveled’ far these past two weeks!
