8:55-9:10- Soft Start/ Morning Work
9:10-9:30-Morning Meeting
9:30-10:30-Whole Group ELA
10:30-11:40- Small Group/ W.I.N ELA
11:40-12:20- Recess/Lunch
12:20-12:30- Read Aloud/SSR
12:30-1:10- Whole Group Math
1:15-2:05- Specials
2:05-2:55- W.I.N Math
3:00-3:15- Recess/Snack
3:15-3:50- Science/ Social Studies
3:50-4:00- Clean Up/End of Day
February
2/2-2/6
STEM/PE
2/9-2/12
Music/Art
2/17-2/20
Music/Art
2/23-2/27
PE/STEM
February
2/2-2/6
PE/STEM
2/9-2/12
Art/Music
2/17-2/20
Art/Music
2/23-2/27
STEM/PE
Each student will have an at home reading binder to help continue and practice the skills we are working on at school. These will come home each Monday. Instructions for what to do with your child will be inside the binder and there will be a parent sheet to sign. Please reach out with any questions. Thank you for supporting your child as they continue to grow as readers!
March
Read Across America- 2nd- 6th
Class Pictures- 4th
Skate City Night- 4th
Spring Break- 16th-20th
Wonders Unit 4 Week 1
2nd Grade
In Unit 4, Weeks 1–2, students explore the essential question: How are kids around the world alike and different? Through fiction and nonfiction texts, students learn about children from different countries, cultures, and communities. They discover how daily life, traditions, school, food, clothing, and family routines can vary around the world — while also noticing many similarities.
In reading, we focus on comparing and contrasting. Students practice identifying how two people, places, or experiences are the same and how they are different using key details from the text. They also work on the comprehension strategy of visualizing — making mental pictures in their heads while reading to better understand the text.
Ways to Support At Home:
-Talk about how 2 things are the same and different
-Have students build sentences orally or write down to explain how two things can be alike and also the ways they are different. This could be two different animals, people, objects etc.
1st Grade
Unit 4 Week 2
Next week we will start Unit 4 Week 2 in Wonders. Our essential question will be "How do Animals Help Each Other?" We will be working with nonfiction/informational texts. Students practice asking and answering questions about what they read and using details from the text to explain their thinking. We also continue working on visualizing, which means making a picture in their minds to better understand the text.
Ways to Support At Home:
-Read nonfiction texts about animals, places or any event
-Ask students to pick the main idea and details to support
-Identify text features together and talk about how they support the text (captions, photographs, glossary, etc.)
-Ask what words were unfamiliar - how did you figure out what it meant or what do you think it means?
2nd Grade
Topic 12
Subtract Within 1,000 Using Strategies
Topic 10 extends your child’s understanding of subtraction to 3-digit numbers using models and strategies. Your child will explain why subtraction strategies work using place value and properties of operations.
We’re focusing on understanding the math, not memorizing steps. Being able to explain their thinking is just as important as the answer.
Our goal is to help students understand that there’s more than one way to solve a problem—and that it’s important to show their thinking and choose the strategy that works best for them.
Ways to Support At Home:
-Talk through thinking:
Ask, “How did you figure that out?” or “What did you subtract first?”
-Encourage multiple strategies:
If your child gets the right answer a different way than you would—celebrate it!
--Mental math moments:
While shopping or driving, ask:
“What is 100 or 10 less than ___?”
If your child is still working on adding fluently within 20, keep practicing fluency facts! This foundation will set them up for future success as they build on math concepts.
Assessment - Tuesday, February 24th
1st Grade
Topic 11
Use Models + Strategies to Subtract Tens
Topic 11 focuses on subtracting multiples of 10 less than 100. Your child will use concrete models, drawings, properties of operations, and strategies based on place value. It is important that your child can explain how they use different strategies to solve the subtraction problems.
Ways to Support at Home:
-You can connect the math in this topic to everyday experiences. When you find a situation in which a multiple of ten needs to be subtracted from a two-digit number, ask your child to help find the answer. For example, if you are making breakfast, you might say, “We started with 43 blueberries and put 20 blueberries on your plate. How many blueberries are left?” Encourage your child to use one tool or method to first solve the problem and then another to check the answer.
-Give your child a number and then ask them to mentally subtract ten more
Assessment - Monday, February 23rd
2nd Grade
2nd grade students are learning all about fast and slow land changes. In this unit, students learn that Earth’s surface can change in different ways. Some changes happen very quickly, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and floods. Other changes happen slowly over time, like weathering, erosion, and the gradual movement of water, wind, or ice shaping the land.
Students will explore how wind and water can move soil and rocks from one place to another, and how natural events can change the shape of the land. Through hands-on investigations and discussions, students will compare fast and slow land changes and explain how these processes affect the Earth’s surface.
By the end of the unit, students will be able to describe examples of both rapid and slow changes to land and explain how these changes happen over time.
Ways to Support at Home
Talk about real-world examples. If you see news about floods, earthquakes, or storms, discuss how those events can quickly change land.
• Notice slow changes outdoors. On walks, look for cracks in sidewalks, rocks that look worn down, or areas where water has moved soil.
• Explore with water. Pour water over dirt or sand outside (or in a container) and observe how it moves the soil — this models erosion.
• Watch short educational videos about volcanoes, erosion, or weathering and discuss what changes happen quickly vs. slowly.
• Encourage your child to explain the difference between fast and slow land changes in their own words — teaching someone else helps strengthen understanding.
These simple conversations and observations help connect classroom learning to the real world.
1st Grade
Around the World
Our first graders are continuing to learn about South America through this next week. We are hoping to wrap up our writing research and projects related to South America in the next couple weeks before heading to our next continent. We kind of did a detour in January where we did some Antartica learning as we learned about polar animals and the North Pole. Stay tuned for where we are headed next!
1st graders just wrapped up their Animal Superpowers unit. They loved it! We had so much fun learning about animals and their offspring. We also learned about camouflage and did some experiments to learn about some amazing animal superpowers!
