Important Calendar Events: 

Important Classroom Logistics: 

Students will be in both classes each day. We write on our blog each week which class will start with which teacher. This is a 2-5 school wide schedule. Students should bring 2 snacks or eat leftovers from lunch for their afternoon snack. Students are encouraged to bring water bottles with their name written on it. We are okay if they leave them at school. They can fill them up at 8:20, 10am, lunch, 2pm. 

Purple (red class) or Yellow (blue class) home folders are going home. Most work is practice work and can be recycled at home. There are sheets about events sent from the school or district. Most of the time the folders return back to school empty; including this week. We accept folders all week, but Monday is always a great day to return it to the class. 

Library: Mondays

SEL (Mme Rachel): Thursdays

PE/Music: Tuesdays + Fridays (PE shoes :)

Note from Mme Rachel:

We have created a new group for some Charlemagne students. The group is The Connections Crew. The group will begin meeting November 3rd!

What is The Connections Crew?
The Connections Crew is a safe and welcoming space for adopted students to come together, build friendships, and celebrate their unique stories. Through games, crafts, and conversations, students connect with one another and are reminded that families are made in many wonderful ways.

Our time together focuses on belonging, confidence, and connection. Students explore themes like identity, friendship, and pride in who they are—all while having fun and supporting one another.

If your child is adopted and would like to join The Connections Crew, please fill out the permission form linked here or more information you can reach out to Mme Rachel at parac_r@4j.lane.edu. We’d love to have them join our circle of connection and celebration!

Weekly Updates: 

Learning Goals for the week of:  10/27/2025

Language Arts: Students worked hard on their very first paragraph. I will be keeping them to show their progress during conferences. Their chameleon art will be hanging on the walls for you to enjoy during the Halloween Parade.

Halloween Week: We have a fun themed week for ELA. We will brainstorm spooky words. Then write spooky sentences and students who are ready will try to write a spooky story. All of course school appropriate. They will also learn about adjectives using the Halloween theme. We will be reading Halloween themed stories. We will also interview our friends to see if they may be a werewolf. 

Fundations: We will continue unit 4 suffixes ed, ing, er est, es and s. The test should be Friday, but due to Halloween fun. The test will be Monday. 

Science:  Students will be learning this week about Halloween science. We will explore Halloween themed animals and do an experiment with candy corn. But even though it is candy we stay to one of our main rules in science. We don't eat/taste science.

SEL Mme Rachel: Grades 2 will be working on their part of the Unity chain for Unity Day. The students will be asked  to write a quality that makes them unique and proud of who they are as individuals.The message is this: even though we are all different, we are all a part of this community. 

French:

sound of the week: “ou” week 1

Nouns : la mouche, la bouche, le loup, la poule, le hibou, la fourmi, la loupe, la soupe

Notes : /

verbs : coule(v), roule (v)

other : sous, fou

Le thème: "Transports"

reading week /writing week 1

a book about transports. 

Vocab: en avion, en bateau, en moto, en voiture, en patins, à pied, à cheval, à vélo

trick words/mots défis: 'vais' and 'chez' 

Grammar: 

using the structure: 

je vais + 'chez' ( une personne)                       + "en/à" (by + mode of transport)

               or 'à' (+ a place (town, store, event)) 

Math: Unité 2: Place Value

Standards: (introduced and developing) The green ones are the ones we are working on.

2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies, and know from memory all sums of two 1-digit numbers

2.OA.4 Find the total number of objects in an array with up to 5 rows and 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends

2.NBT.1 Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 3-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones

2.NBT.2 Skip-count by 5s and 10s within 1,000 

2.NBT.3 Read and write numbers to 1,000 represented with numerals, number names, and expanded form (500 + 60 + 5)

2.NBT.4 Compare pairs of 3-digit numbers, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons

2.NBT.5 Add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction

2.MD.6 Represent whole numbers as lengths on a number line diagram, and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram

Home connection pages:

19-24

29-34

37: game (we haven't played but it's pretty straight forward)

Art: Halloween project 

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Learning Goals for the week of:  10/20/2025

Language Arts: Last week we read A Color of Its Own and explored story structure and problem, problem being solved and problem solved in fiction stories. This week we will write a paragraph answering the question, How the chameleon changed in the story. We will make a camouflage art activity when we finish. 

Fundations: Test for Unit 2 and 3 went home on Friday. Homework also went home for students who need more practice. We will start Unit 4 a two week unit about suffixes. 

Science:  Rocks: This week we will learn about weathering and rocks. Kids can bring rock collections from home. If they are will to accept the risk of possible losing them or breaking them. Also they should come in a zip lock bag with their name written on the bag. This is optional and only for students who really want to share their rock collections. 

SEL Mme Rachel: Grades 2 will be working on their part of the Unity chain for Unity Day. The students will be asked  to write a quality that makes them unique and proud of who they are as individuals.The message is this: even though we are all different, we are all a part of this community. 

French:

sound of the week: “eau” week 2

Nouns : l'eau, un chapeau, un château, un bateau, un oiseau, un chameau

Notes : plural of ‘eau’ takes an ‘x’ (not ‘s’), ‘eau’ is always at the end of the word, all ‘eau’ words are masculine except for ‘eau’ (water)

verbs : /

other : beau, beaucoup de

Le thème: "Transports"

reading week /writing week 

a book about transports. 

Vocab: en avion, en bateau, en moto, en voiture, en patins, à pied, à cheval, à vélo

trick words/mots défis: 'vais' and 'chez' 

Grammar: 

using the structure: 

je vais + 'chez' ( une personne) or 'à' (+ a place (town, store, event)) + "en/à" (by + mode of transport)

Math: Unité 2: Place Value

Standards: (introduced and developing)

2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies, and know from memory all sums of two 1-digit numbers

2.OA.4 Find the total number of objects in an array with up to 5 rows and 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends

2.NBT.1 Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 3-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones

2.NBT.2 Skip-count by 5s and 10s within 1,000 

2.NBT.3 Read and write numbers to 1,000 represented with numerals, number names, and expanded form (500 + 60 + 5)

2.NBT.4 Compare pairs of 3-digit numbers, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons

2.NBT.5 Add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction

2.MD.6 Represent whole numbers as lengths on a number line diagram, and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram

Art: warm/cold colors project #3: Trees in fall/winter

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Learning Goals for the week of:  10/13/2025

Language Arts: We will finish our craftivity that goes with the book The Little Yellow Leaf and start our new book A Color of Its Own. Students will explore vocabulary and story structure to get ready for a new paragraph. They will also learn about verbs. 

Fundations:, Students finished Unit 2 last week. The test and homework will go home on Friday. They will also finish Unit 3 because it is a one week unit. Students learn a new syllable type called close syllable exception.  

Social Studies: We will put together our books and start our first unit in Science about rocks. 

SEL Mme Rachel: Grades 2 will be working on their part of the Unity chain for Unity Day. The students will be asked  to write a quality that makes them unique and proud of who they are as individuals.The message is this: even though we are all different, we are all a part of this community. 

French:

sound of the week: “eau” week 1

Nouns : l'eau, un chapeau, un château, un bateau, un oiseau, un chameau

Notes : plural of ‘eau’ takes an ‘x’ (not ‘s’), ‘eau’ is always at the end of the word, all ‘eau’ words are masculine except for ‘eau’ (water)

verbs : /

other : beau

Le thème: “Couleurs”

reading /writing week 2

a book about colors. Structure is: "noun" is "color" "like" "noun".

'est' and 'comme' are our focus words

Grammar: noun + color

Math: unit 1/home connections: 

• odd/even: vocab we use for even: 2 equal groups (or a rectangle), for odd: 1 is alone (when we draw the picture)

• Fluency strategies: 

  • doubles to 10: 5 + 5, 6 + 6, etc. and 'near double' so using 7 + 7  to solve 7 + 8, etc.

  • compensation: 9 + 5 => 10 + 5 = 15, 15-1 = 14

• Favorite class games:

  • amis de 10: https://www.mathplayground.com/logic_target_10.html

  • odd/even: https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/early-math/odd-even-fruit-splat-game/

Art: warm/cold colors project #2: moon and sun

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Weekly Learning Goals:  10/6/2025

Language Arts: Stations will start this week. Students will be working on reading at there level during this time. We are starting module 1 whit and wisdom. Students are continue to reading the Little Yellow Leaf.  This week we are writing our first paragraph answering the question, How did the Little Yellow Leaf change? We write our topic sentence together and give evidence from the text to support our answer. 

Fundations: Students did well on our first test. We did the unit with out doing all the activities. Unit 2, we will have more time to have practice with whiteboards and small group reading. Students are working on bonus letters ss, ll, ff and glued sounds am an. Unit 2 week 2 will add more glued sounds like ink, unk, ong, ang, 

Social Studies: We will learn about our world. Students learned about our school, city, state, country, continent. This week we will add our planet Earth and then put the flip book together to bring home. They learned about geography and executive functioning skills of organization, keeping the papers in their folders, cutting and gluing their books. 

SEL Mme Rachel: 2: Students will learn how to: 

• Recognize when bullying is happening 

• Report bullying to a caring adult 

• Refuse to let bullying happen to themselves or others 

• Be an upstander who stands up and is part of the solution to bullying

French:

sound of the week: “au” week 2

nouns: le dinosaure, la chaussure, une autruche, le crapaud, une faute

verbs : sauter

other : aussi, jaune, chaud, faux, haut

Le thème: “Couleurs”

reading /writing week 1

a book about colors. Structure is: "noun" is "color" "like" "noun".

Grammar: noun + color

Math: unit 1/home connections: 

• odd/even: vocab we use for even: 2 equal groups, for odd: 1 is alone (when we draw the picture)

• Fluency strategies: 

  • doubles to 10: 5 + 5, 6 + 6, etc. and 'near double' so using 7 + 7  to solve 7 + 8, etc.

  • compensation: 9 + 5 => 10 + 5 = 15, 15-1 = 14

• Favorite class games:

  • amis de 10: https://www.mathplayground.com/logic_target_10.html

  • odd/even: https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/early-math/odd-even-fruit-splat-game/

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Art: warm/cold colors

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Weekly Learning Goals:  9/29/2025

Language Arts: We are starting module 1 whit and wisdom. Students are continue to reading the Little Yellow Leaf.  This week we are writing our first paragraph answering the question, How did the Little Yellow Leaf changed

Fundations: Students did well on our first test. We did the unit with out doing all the activities. Unit 2, we will have more time to have practice with whiteboards and small group reading. Students are working on bonus letters ss, ll, ff and glued sounds am an. Unit 2 week 2 will add more glued sounds like ink, unk, ong, ang, 

Social Studies: We will learn about our world. Students learned about our school, city, and state last weeks. We will work on our Country and continent this week.  

SEL: Kindness and leadership. We will be looking at how to communicate with kindness. We will also learn to transition easily so there is more room for learning. 

SEL Mme Rachel: 2: Students will learn how to: 

• Recognize when bullying is happening 

• Report bullying to a caring adult 

• Refuse to let bullying happen to themselves or others 

• Be an upstander who stands up and is part of the solution to bullying

French:

“au”

nouns: le dinosaure, la chaussure, une autruche, le dauphin, le crapaud, une faute

verbs : sauter

other : aussi, jaune, chaud, faux, haut

Le thème: “Couleurs”

reading /writing week 

a book about colors. Structure is: "noun" is "color" "like" "noun".

Grammar: noun + color

Math: unit 1 

A few concepts are introduced this month: time (to the 5 min.), graphing, odd and even, and fluency withing 20.

Art: collaborative project and soon warm/cold colors

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First weeks of school:

Language Arts: We are starting module 1 whit and wisdom. We will keep working on our routines as we explore a poem called Weather. We are still working on independent work we during stations; read to self, work on writing, listen to read, and word work.  

Social Studies: We will learn about our world. Students draw their room and write their full first and and last name. We all students to know their last name and be able to spell it. We also would like them to know their address. You can help us by going over this information with them.  We will continue working on our city, state, and country.  

SEL: Kindness and leadership. We will be looking at how to communicate with kindness. How we can be leaders and helpers but we can only change ourselves. 

SEL Mme Rachel: 2: We are focusing on how to create a strong sense of belonging in our school and community. To represent this, we’ll use the image of a puzzle: each piece is unique, yet every piece is essential in completing the whole picture. Home Connection: Have a conversation at home about the different things that are special or unique about you. 

French:

We are reviewing vowels, 'j', and 'ch' and learning routines and protocols for the activities.

We are learning how to rotate for stations.

Math:

A few concepts are introduced this month: time (to the 5 min.), graphing, odd and even, and fluency withing 20.

Art: collaborative project and soon warm/cold colors