October 3rd, 2025
Happy Friday! We’ve had another successful week of learning in second grade. The students have been working hard, showing curiosity, and making great progress in all subject areas.
In Math we will continue exploring 2- and 3-digit numbers. Students will use manipulatives and arrays to model numbers, decompose them by place value, and add numbers by regrouping tens and ones.
In Writing we are beginning an exciting nonfiction unit! Students will become experts on a topic of their choice. They will read nonfiction texts, gather facts, and begin writing to teach others about their topic.
In Science we will continue learning about what plants need to live and grow. They’ll also engage in observations and discussions to deepen their understanding of plant needs.
Thank you for your continued support at home.
Learning Goal
Second-grade readers will continue to grow as "experts" by using text features to quickly find information and by synthesizing knowledge from different parts of a book. In Phonics Workshop, students will take an assessment on r-controlled vowels and then begin a new unit focused on reading big, multi-syllable words with resolve.
Reading Workshop (Becoming Experts: Sessions 4-6): Students are learning to work smarter, not harder! They will practice using text features (like the Table of Contents, headings, and index) to quickly locate the specific information they need. They'll also practice combining facts from different pages or sections of a book to create a deeper understanding of their topic.
Phonics Workshop: This week begins with an assessment on r-controlled vowels (like ar, or, ir, er, ur) to check for mastery. Following the assessment, we launch a new unit where the focus shifts to tackling long words. The first lesson, "Big Words Take Big Resolve," teaches students to break down unknown words into smaller, manageable chunks to solve them.
Be a Text Feature Tourist: When reading nonfiction books at home (or even magazines/websites), ask your child to use the Table of Contents to find a specific page before flipping through the book. Challenge them to find information on a topic using the Index at the back.
Synthesize Facts: After reading a few pages about a topic, ask your child to tell you three different facts they learned and how those facts connect to each other.
Tackle Big Words: When your child gets stuck on a long word while reading aloud, coach them to cover the word with their finger and uncover it one syllable or chunk at a time, encouraging them to try saying each piece until the whole word is clear.
Learning Goal
Los estudiantes continuarán editando detalles en sus libros para hacer de su libro fácil de leer habiendo aplicando las pautas de escritura, luego se prepararán para su celebración final y publicación el día lunes 6 de octubre en el salón de clase. En esta misma semana de igual manera se dará inicio casi al nuevo taller de lectura
Durante la semana los estudiantes van a celebrar la publicación de su escrito el cual han estado trabajando con mucha atención, ene esta mismama semana pondrán en práctica sus habilidades de escritores cuidando cada detalle en un escrito adicional. Tambien podrán conocer de que se trata el nuevo taller de lectura que dará inicio el miércoles 8 de octubre.
En casa puden leer libros de no ficción de algo de les llame la atención, pequeñas notas informativas sobre el clima, comidas o temas que le llamen su atención y ejercitar la lectura en voz alta.
Learning Goal
Mathematicians will be measuring the length of objects, expressing their length as a whole number of units and determining exactly how much longer an object is then another using tools like the unifix cubes.
Learning Goal
What do plants need to survive and what happens if they do not have all the conditions they need?
Students are going to do scientific research to learn more about plants!
They will understand how do environmental changes affect plants?
Students will share observations about plants experiment with family members.
Learning Goal
Self-Awareness: Identifying One’s Emotions
In this lesson, tigers will learn to identify emotions based on internal and external cues as they play charades. Each student will act out an emotion varying intensities and the group will have to identify the emotion with the level.
When tigers are experiencing an emotion, help them use descriptive feeling words to identify what is happening with their bodies on the outside and how their bodies feel on the inside.
Reminders:
October 10th No School
Remember to pack a healthy snack! 🍎🥕 Candy and chocolates are not allowed.
Read for 20 minutes every day and write your reading response. Turn it in on Fridays. 📖
Challenge yourself to use our troublemaker words in your writing! ✍️
There will be no school on October 10th. Enjoy the long weekend! 🍂
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