Week 19

                                                    

Important Dates

• Tuesday, Dec. 19, will be a Thursday schedule
• Dec. 21 -
• ES/MS House Event - Wear House shirts
• ES Winter Classroom Party - All parents welcome 1:00-1:50
• ES Winter Assembly - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
• Dec 22 - Jan 13 Winter Break
• Jan. 14 - School resumes

Winter Celebrations

As we are planning for the last day of school which includes a house event, winter parties and culminating in a winter assembly at the end of the day, we hope you will all be here to join in the fun! If you can’t, we would appreciate knowing if you are planning to take your child/ren away at an earlier date. Please inform your classroom teacher.

“Christmas around the world” will be the theme of our Winter assembly. Grade 2 students will sing a German song that you can find here to help your child practice. Thanks in advance for your support.

Core Value Books

The core value for December and January  is INTEGRITY. We will be sending home the core value book with the theme of integrity: The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade. Please read it with your child, then return it to school for the next student to take home.

Mathletics

Students have customized lessons on Mathletics, please encourage your children to go on Mathletics to complete activities. Do not hesitate to send an email to your kid’s teacher if they have any problem working in the website.

ASA

There are no after school activities this week. ASA will resume on January 14th.

What’s Going on This Week in Grade 2

Readers’ Workshop

This week we will celebrate the end of our informational books unit. We will do some partnership reading and sharing of information. Students will also reflect on what they feel confident in and what they need to continue working on. We will end the week with a reading celebration on the lawn.

Essential Question:

• How can I let the nonfiction books I read be my teachers, so that all the pages and pictures of those books teach me about a topic?
• How can I read nonfiction books with so much power that they turn me into an expert on my topic?

Some suggested discussions to do at home:

• Read to learn and develop wonder about the world.
• Reread books for fluency and intonation.
• Using nonfiction features to find key facts and information.
• Talk about illustrations and how pictures clarify text or provide informational content

Writers’ Workshop

Our writers’ have a lot to say about the world. Students are writing about how to care for dogs, all about frogs, soccer, and other such topics. This week we will end our informational writing unit. Students will share their books with their partners and classmates. They will also have an opportunity to reflect on their strengths and areas of improvement.

Essential Question:

• How can I add more information to my book once I already put down all that I know about the topic?

Some suggested activities you can do at home:

• Talk about nonfiction topics that interest your child
• Talk more about what you know about that topic

Math- Module 4: Adding and Subtracting Within 200

Students will solve additions with up to four addends with totals within 200 with and without two compositions of larger units, and will relate manipulative representations and drawings to a written method. Students will also use number bonds to decompose three-digit minuends and subtract from the hundreds.

Some of the objectives are:

• Adding using the Vertical Form (standard algorithm)
• Composing tens into hundreds and ones into tens
• Using the place value chart while adding and subtracting
• Relating drawings and manipulative representations to a written method
• Solve one and two-step word problems within 200 using strategies based on place value

Essential Questions

• How can strategies help me to quickly add and subtract?
• How do I explain my mathematical thinking and why is that important?

Key understandings of Module 4:

1. I can add or subtract any two numbers between 0 and 100 within a one and two step word problem.
2. I can explain my arithmetic using drawings and equations (with symbols for the "unknown")
3. I can EASILY add and subtract any two numbers from 0 to 100.
4. I can add up to four 2-digit numbers using a variety of strategies
5. I can add and subtract numbers from 0 to 1000 using different strategies based on place value and regrouping
6. I can mentally add or subtract 10 and 100 from any number from 100 to 900
7. I can explain why various addition or subtraction strategies work using numbers, drawings, or objects.

*Don’t forget to check out Eureka Math at https://greatminds.org/

*Module 4 Parent Tips Letter

Science

We are working on our unit: Leap into Space. Students are gathering information on the movement of the earth and moon.

Essential Questions:

• What do we know about our place in space?
• What is our solar system and how do we fit in it?

Some suggested discussions you can have at home:

• Discuss the solar system using unit vocabulary:

stars, star color, star brightness, moon, lunar, sun, sun's position, sun's size, solar, Earth, Earth's rotation, cycles, revolve, position, orbit, axis, phases, sky patterns, phases of the moon, solar system, telescope

• Discuss how patterns in the sky remain stable but appear to move because of the Earth’s motion.

Circles

Focus: Displaying integrity especially when working with others, in the classroom, at school, at home, and in the community.

Growth Mindset Questions