• 1/12 to 1/22 - Access Testing for Multilingual 

• 1/13 - Report Cards Sent Home

• 1/14 9:00 AM - Spelling Bee (4th to 8th Gr)

• 1/14 3:00 PM Counselor Conversations (All Grades)

• 1/19 - No School for MLK 

• 1/23 - 5th Gr Field Trip to Biztown

• 2/13 - Black Career Expo

• 2/16 - No School for Teacher Training

• 2/17 - No School Student Led Conference Day

• 2/20 - Black History Wax Museum, Black History Parade, Black History 

• 3/9 to 4/17 - Spring MAP Testing (Math & Reading) 

• 3/20 - SDL Showcase - Student Presentation (All Grades)

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Happy New Year!! We are excited for the second half of Kindergarten. We will wrap up our study of weather in our reading module with Weather Stories and begin Module 3 - Trees are Alive. In math, we will begin Unit 5 of Illustrative Mathematics: Composing and Decomposing Numbers to 10. For social studies, we will be talking about the New Year and Dr. Martin Luther King. 

💯 We are also so excited to be celebrating the 100th day of school during the last week of January!!

Jenna & Cheri

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ELA:

In Module 3, Unit 1, students launch their learning about birds by focusing on their physical features. Students consider the unit guiding question, “What makes a bird a bird?”, as they begin to develop their research skills by exploring the different physical characteristics of birds. As the unit progresses, students begin researching the physical characteristics of birds as they read various informational texts.

Math:

In Unit 3, Section C, students explore composing and decomposing numbers to add up to three addends within 20. They make use of the base-ten structure and the commutative and associative properties (collectively referred to as the “add in any order” property throughout the materials) when adding, and discover the usefulness of grouping numbers to make a sum of 10 (ex., 4+2+6 would become 10+2 when making a sum of 10).

Eriauna & Lauren

Dear 2nd Grade Families,

We will begin our 3 EL Module, The Secret World of Pollinators. In unit 1,students will build their background knowledge of plants by researching the unit guiding question, "How do plants grow and survive?" Students research this question by engaging in activities that provoke wonder and curiosity about how we get the fruits, flowers, and vegetables that we enjoy. We will grow plants from seeds at school, and we will send home seeds for you to try this at home, too.

Thanks for reading,

Ms. Mayra & Ms. Susan

Reading:  EL Module 3: Exploring Literary Classics

What can we learn from reading literary classics? In this module, students consider the answer to this question through a case study of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. In Unit 1, students begin reading Peter Pan. At the beginning of the unit, they also read an informational text about the author and historical context. As students read chapters of Peter Pan, they make connections between what they have read in Peter Pan and the issues presented in the informational text. Students also consider how each new chapter of Peter Pan builds on the events in previous chapters. In the second half of the unit, students analyze character traits and actions and compare their point of view with the characters' point of view.

Math: IM Unit 4: Relating Multiplication to Division

Section A: What Is Division

In this section, students encounter situations involving the questions “how many in each group?” and “how many groups?” They make sense of division by finding answers to these questions. The focus here is on interpreting descriptions, diagrams, and expressions that represent division situations. Students see that the same diagram or expression can represent different questions. For example, the expression 6 ÷ 2 can represent two different questions: 6 blocks put into stacks of 2, or into 2 equal stacks.

Section B: Relate Multiplication and Division

Students will...

• Understand division as an unknown-factor problem.

• Use properties of operations to develop fluency with single-digit multiplication facts and their related division facts.

Andrew and Samantha

  In Math, students will make sense of multiplication as a way to compare quantities. They use this understanding to solve measurement problems. In earlier grades, students related two quantities and made an additive comparison, with the key question: “How many more?” Here, they make a multiplicative comparison, in which the underlying question is “How many times as many?” For example, if Mai has 3 cubes and Tyler has 18 cubes, we can say that Tyler has 6 times as many cubes as Mai does.

    In ELA, students will explore colonial perspectives on the Revolutionary War. They begin by listening to a read-aloud of Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak, which outlines the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party from multiple perspectives.

    In Science, students will gain foundational knowledge of the phenomenon of energy. The essential question for this module is, "What is energy and how is it related to motion?" Students will investigate how energy is transferred when objects collide. They use evidence to construct an explanation of the relationship between an object's speed and its energy. 

    In Social Studies, students will continue to work toward this goal by examining the reasons why and how people move from one place to another through their study of the migration and settlement of Colonial America. Students will describe diverse forms of self-government used by various groups in Colonial America while assessing the ability of various forms of government to foster civic virtues and uphold democratic principles. 

Christie & Jamie

Math: Unit 4

In this unit, students multiply and divide multi-digit whole numbers, using place-value understanding, properties of operations, and the relationship between multiplication and division. They use the standard algorithm to multiply multi-digit whole numbers and the partial-quotient algorithm to divide whole numbers up to four digits by two-digit divisors. They then apply these skills to solve problems involving volume.

Section A: Multi-digit Multiplication Using the Standard Algorithm

Section B: Multi-digit Division Using Partial Quotients

Section C: Let’s Put it to Work

ELA: January Look Ahead

In Unit 1, students build background knowledge of the rainforest, including its destruction, to understand why scientists study it. In the first half of the unit, they read excerpts from The Most Beautiful Roof in the World by Kathryn Lasky and other informational texts to analyze and compare text structure and write summaries. For the mid-unit assessment, students read, summarized, and compared the structures of two new informational texts about the rainforest. (We are almost here, NTI kinda messed up this pattern:)

In the second half of the unit, students transition to conducting web research to answer the question: What can I do to help the rainforest? They prepare for a Science Talk in which they discuss what they can do to help and the realistic challenges of implementing some of those ideas. For the first part of the end-of-unit assessment, students complete independent research using new sources to participate in a Science Talk in the second half.

In Unit 2, students read and analyze literary texts, focusing on how the point of view shapes how events are described and how concrete and descriptive language helps readers understand a text. Students read several literary texts about the rainforest, including “The Dreaming Tree,” a Brazilian folk tale; The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry; and excerpts from The Most Beautiful Roof in the World by Kathryn Lasky. In the first half of the unit, they compare the point of view and figurative language used in these texts. On the mid-unit assessment, students read and analyze a new literary text for the author’s craft.

Tyler & Randy