Tuesday morning, October 10 at 7:55 am, join us on the elementary lawn to Drop Everything And Read! Bring a book (and probably a hat or sunglasses because it will be sunny), and join the elementary students for some sustained silent reading. Please make sure to pack a book for your child/ren so they can get right to it when we start our reading. We hope you will join us. Modeling reading with your children is a great way to highlight the importance and joy of reading.
Promoting Writing With Your Child
Christy Curran, a literacy consultant with extensive experience as a classroom teacher and coach, is returning to CAC. She will be leading a Coaching Institute with CAC teachers and coaches from other international schools in the region, teaching model lessons in classrooms, and running workshops for teachers and parents. We hope you can join us Wednesday, 11 October, 2:00 to 3:00pm in the 1st Floor Common Room for a presentation on Promoting Writing With Your Child. We are excited to have her back! Christy has worked at the internationally renowned Teachers College Reading and Writing Project as a staff developer.Global Math Week Parent Workshop
Tuesday 17th October, 8:30 - 9:30am
Dana Purpura
School Counselor
dpurpura@cacegypt.org
Global Math Week
From the 15th to 19th of October the CAC elementary school will be celebrating Global Math Week, the world’s biggest community mathematics event. The aim of the event is to unite one million students around the globe in a shared experience of joyful uplifting mathematics. During this week at CAC there will be a number of different mathematical activities going on for students and families to enjoy. These include:
- During their math class that week, students will participate in the Global Math Week focus activity - Exploding Dots!
- A Math Trail will be set up around the elementary school grounds. Students and families can complete the tasks during recess or after school and submit their responses each day. At the end of the week a display will showcase the most creative solutions.
- A Problem of the Day will be posed to challenge our most dedicated mathematicians. Parents are allowed (and encouraged) to help!
- A Parent Workshop will provide an opportunity for parents to share in the joy and fun of Exploding Dots alongside their children, and will share some tips for keeping the math fun going at home.
The ultimate goal of Global Math Week is to change the way the world sees math. We want to help our students appreciate math as joyful, relevant, meaningful and creative. Join us in celebrating the wonder of math!
Challenge Series (CCS) - Grade 2 - 5 Students
This year, the ES is offering a new lunchtime sports program called the Cairo Challenge Series. The CCS is a series of 5 events throughout the year for Grade 2-5 students. The five events are: 40m sprint (October), Cross Country race (December), Badminton (grade 3-5 in January), Long Jump (March) and 25m swim (May). All events are designed to recognize participation as well as excellence.
The first event is the 40m sprint, occurring the week of October 8. The first and second rounds will be done by grade with top finishers in each heat progressing to subsequent rounds.
- October 9 - Grade 2
- October 10 - Grade 3
- October 11 - Grade 4
- October 12 - Grade 5
- October 16 - Semi-finals for Grade 2-5
- October 17 - Finals for Grade 2-5
We hope that we have 100% participation! No sign up is necessary, students should just come to the track and we will be marking who is there at this time. On the day of your child’s races, please pack a lunch for them as there will be limited time to get hot lunch on these days. There will be an area for students to eat when they are not racing.
We are very excited to get this program started. If you have any questions, there is additional information on our website or you can email Matt Lautenbach at mlautenbach@caceygpt.org.
Core Value Books
We will be sending home the core value book of the month. This month is RESPONSIBILITY. Students will start taking turns bringing the RESPONSIBILiTY book home this week. Keep in mind we will continue circulating the RESPECT book until all students have shared it with his/her parents. When your child brings home the book please take a day or two to read it and talk about it. Then, return it to school for the next student to take home.
Room Parents:
The leadership team has chosen the room parents for all three classrooms in Grade 2. Feel free to email them if you have any question:
2K - Linda Cederblad (Astrid’s mom)
2R - Ahmed El Kilany (Zaiden’s dad)
2S - Nina El Shabrawy (Sophie’s mom)
ASA
- If your child can't attend ASA please notify Ereeny: egergess@cacegypt.org
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Counseling Corner
Interesting Article:
Aha! Parenting.com is a great resource that shares information and parenting articles spanning pregnancy to teenagers. I am passing on a recent article about growth mindset. Growth Mindset is an idea based on the extensive research of Stanford University psychologist, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.. Put simply, it is the idea that people are not born with a fixed intelligence. It is the idea that our brains act similar to a muscle that grows stronger with use. Take a look and let us know what you think.
Guidance:
In our weekly guidance lessons, second grade are learning about their own feelings and the feelings of others which will help them to better control their emotions and be more accepting of their peers. During guidance time we will be covering Second Step lessons about understanding feelings and emotions. Students look at facial expressions, tone of voice, body language and situational clues to better understand how others might be feeling. Students will also be looking at ways that they can better identify their own feelings by noticing physical clues that happen within their bodies. We will discussing and practicing different strategies for managing feelings in appropriate ways. We will do this through books, activities, role play and lesson discussions.
Grade Level Goal/ Friendship Survey:
At the beginning of the school year we ask all second through fifth grade students to fill out a “Friendship Survey” regarding their experiences at school. The purpose of the survey is to give us a better understanding of how CAC students feel about coming to school, social interactions and their support system while here at school. We went over the second grade results with them, they analyzed the data and decided on a goal for the year. They are now brainstorming ways that they can accomplish their goal. They then take the survey again at the end of the year to see if they have made progress toward their goal.
2nd grade goal: To play with different people and include others we normally would not include. If you have any fun suggestions on how they can "mix it up" please share them with your child.
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What’s Going on This Week in Grade 2
Readers’ Workshop
This week in Characters Face Bigger Challenges, readers practice the skill of retelling to determine importance. Readers balance the details as they retell to find the most important details that show traits and feelings. Students will practice balancing details when they retell. They do not want to tell every tiny detail, but they also want to make sure the listener can picture the action. The best way to do this is to determine what is important by asking: "Is this an important part of the story?"
Essential Question:
- When reading fiction stories, what can I do to be sure I understand the main characters' problems?
Some suggested discussions to do at home:
- Ask your child to retell the story
- Talk about the problem(s) and solution(s) the character has
Writers’ Workshop
In Bend 2 of Gripping Fictional Stories with Meaning and Significance students check their work to make sure each part of our story has details that show feelings. We can read our stories to our friends and ask them what feeling they get in different parts. For example: You may start out really happy playing with your friends at the playground until you fall down and hurt yourself. Clearly, your feelings will change and you’ll be upset or disappointed that you can no longer play, or scared that you’re bleeding. By showing our feelings we help our readers understand what we were going through during the different parts of our stories.
Essential Question:
- How can I write detailed, focused, gripping fictional narratives, drawing on all I've learned about this kind of writing?
- Where do authors get their ideas?
- How do good writers HOOK the reader?
Some suggested activities you can do at home:
- Generate ideas to write about by talking about a small moment and talk about what the people did, said, or felt.
Math
Module 3: Place Value Counting- Numbers to 1000
We will focus on reviewing concepts for the mid-module assessment. Students will need to know:- Unit Form - 2 hundreds, 1 ten, one 1
- Word form - two hundred eleven
- Expanded from - 200+10+1
- Standard from - 211
We will continue using the Happy Counting. This can be a fun game to play in the car or in the elevator or any time you have to practice counting by units of ones, tens, and hundreds.
For example, count from 76 to 300...
76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300
Essential Questions
- How can a number be represented in different ways?
- How does the position of the digits in a number affect its value?
Key understandings of Module 3:
- I can explain the value of each digit in a three digit number.
- I can explain how ten tens can be put together to form a hundred.
- I can explain the value of each digit in a three digit number.
- I can explain how all the hundreds are related to one another because they have no ones or tens.
- I can skip count by 5's, 10's, or 100's up to 1000 and starting at any number.
- I can read and write any number from 1 to 1000 in "regular" form, words, or expanded form.
- I can correctly compare 3-digit numbers using >, =, and < by observing the value of their digits.
* Don’t forget to check out Eureka Math at https://greatminds.org/
* Module 3 Parent Tips Letter
Science
We start our next unit Animals on Safari! where students will learn that animals have different physical structures and characteristics that allow them to survive and defend themselves. This week students will be given pictures of various animals to sort. They will explain their sorting rule to the class. We will also watch brainpop videos on classifying animals and they will revisit their sorts to see if they can find different ways to sort and talk about why they sorted them that way.
Essential Questions:
- Why do animals look different?
Some suggested discussions you can have at home:
- Describe animals using unit vocabulary
structure, classification, classify, features, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, insects, camouflage, survive, defend, eat
- Talk about: How does this physical structure or characteristic help the animal to eat, stay warm and defend itself?
Circles
Focus: Responsible behavior especially when working with others, in the classroom, at school, at home, and in the community
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