2B

Weekly Newsletter

November 17, 2024

Dear Families,

We hope you had a wonderful weekend.

We had a great visit at the Dyker Heights Campus for Solidarity Day. Small groups of second graders met with a mix of middle schoolers and high schoolers to share a book, engage in discussion, and create badges that symbolize solidarity. Check out the pictures on the November Photos page of our website.

The weather forecast looks iffy for our walking trip over the Brooklyn Bridge on Friday. If it rains, we will go on Monday, November 25. As of now, the plan is to go this Friday. If you’d like to join us for our walk on the Brooklyn Bridge and you haven’t already emailed us, please send us a confirmation email by Wednesday. Everyone is welcome to come! We will meet around 9:15 AM in Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Heights where we’ll be dropped off by a school bus. Here’s a Google Maps link to Cadman Plaza. https://g.page/cadman-plaza-park?share. We are planning to walk to the first tower and back and hope to be back at school for our regular lunch period at 11:40.  

We need bridge building supplies for social studies! Please start collecting and sending in the following supplies for building:

paper towel rolls

toilet paper rolls

egg cartons

small cardboard boxes

thin cardboard boxes (cereal, pasta, granola bars)

wire

aluminum foil

bottle caps

and anything else your child thinks would be helpful!

Click here for a link to the lunch menu this week. Please continue to send in hearty snacks and water bottles for your child every day. 

There is a new link on our website for Specials pages. 

Thank you,

Sarah Davies 

sdavies@polyprep.org

Lauren Petito 

lpetito@polyprep.org

Inha Yang 

iyang@polyprep.org

Joyce Vizcaino 

jvizcaino@polyprep.org

Important Dates:

Friday, November 22  

(Rain Date Monday, November 25)

Brooklyn Bridge Field Trip

9:15 - 11:15

Parents meet us at Cadman Plaza

Wednesday, Nov. 27 - Friday, Nov.29 

NO SCHOOL

Thanksgiving Break

Wednesday, December 11

Grade 2 Celebration of Learning at 8:45am

What’s going on in our classroom:

Reading

Currently the groups are reading Gooney Bird Greene, More Stories Huey Tells, Fox and Friends, Cam Jansen and the Babe Ruth Baseball, and Horrible Harry. 

Math

We have concluded our units on subtraction and addition with regrouping. We will continue to practice these skills both as part of upcoming units on measurement and word problems. You can practice this at home too (we did it the same way we all learned in school with “borrowing” and “carrying”). 

We are starting a unit on measurement. We’ll start with the metric system and learn about meters and centimeters this week.

For extra math practice, please check out resources on the Classroom Resources page of the 2B website. 

Social Studies

This week students will learn about cable spinning and the roadway building of the Brooklyn Bridge construction. This will be the final learning to prepare them for Friday’s field trip! Here is a link to our Social Studies page where you can find Brooklyn Bridge slideshows from class.  

Writing

Students are writing about their social studies learning in writing. 

Fundations

Students continue to read and write base words with suffixes: -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est. This week the particular focus is on the different sounds of -ed. Here is a link to our November Trick Words for spelling.