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Ms. Yang & Ms. Vizcaino
Newsletter
June 8, 2025
Dear Second Grade Families,
It’s our last week of school! We can’t believe how quickly the year went by! We’ve had a wonderful year with your second graders. Thank you for sharing your children with us and thank you for your partnership. We will miss them!
Wednesday’s Open School Night was a celebration of learning, showcasing the children’s work. It was great seeing you all there - thank you for coming! There are lots of pictures on our June Photos page. Our Ellis Island legal inspection videos are on the site as well.
There is no homework this week. However, students are bringing home materials and projects, so please send in backpacks and large bags every day this week. We have lots of projects that need to go home, including mosaics and tenement dioramas.
Books we read last week include Landed by Millie Lee and The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.
If you have any books from the Poly Library at home, please return them this week.
Here’s a link to this week’s lunch menu. Please remember to send in snack every day through the last day of school. Extra snack is appreciated by your children since they have full and active days!
After School ends on Tuesday. Please Update PickUp Patrol to reflect this week’s changes and Thursday’s half day dismissal.
Best,
Inha Yang
Joyce Vizcaino
Sarah Davies
Lauren Petito
lpetito@polyprep.org
Important Dates:
Tuesday, June 10:
Last day of After School
Thursday, June 12:
Noon Dismissal - Last Day of School!
Saturday, June 14:
Brooklyn Pride Parade. Sign-up here.
What’s going on in our classroom
This week students will have a regular schedule while also participating in end of the year activities. We’ll play math games and try marbles and jacks from our social studies unit and continue spelling long words in Fundations. We will share our favorite memories of second grade and sign yearbooks. We’ll visit the third grade classrooms and clap out our fourth grade students.
Changemaker Day
On Tuesday morning students will march around the block, opposing book bans that are happening in the country. Many of the books are children's picture books that we read regularly as part of our second grade immigration unit, Anti-Racist curriculum, and heritage months. We'll puzzle together over why this is happening and revisit some of the texts that are being challenged. We'll reinforce why we at Poly Prep read them - for sustainability reasons, inclusion, and perspective taking. In the afternoon, second grade students will focus on the service component of the day and support KiND (Kids in Need of Defense) by writing letters supporting a bill requiring legal representation for unaccompanied refugee children called the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act. We’ll also make welcome cards for immigrants who are being helped at KiND.
Reading
Reading every day over the summer is super important, both independently and reading aloud to your child! We’ll be sending home a list of recommended book titles. This is only a starting point however since your child can pick out books on their own at this point.
Math
Second graders will share their work on The Box Factory. Last week they worked with partners on this culminating high level math project. They used their multiplication and reasoning skills to solve the problem of figuring out all of the arrangements for 24 oranges in different box shapes. They represented the arrangements with blocks, drawings, and grid paper. We will also play math games.
What can you do at home this summer?
Complete the Summer Math Workbook that we sent home a few weeks ago. We recommend spreading it out over the summer so that it’s not too much to do at the end of the summer and also so that they maintain their math learning throughout the summer. Bring it back on the first days of third grade.
Play math games from Math Night. Ms. Pennington emailed game boards a few weeks ago.
Practice addition and subtraction math facts.
Practice adding and subtracting three-digit numbers with regrouping (borrowing and carrying).
Skip count by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s.
Tell time on analog clock.
Count coins.
Use your ixl.com account.
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