Welcome to the Grade 2 Newsletter
Important Dates
- March 4 - ASA Session 3 Sign up begins
- March 6 - ES Assembly - 2S (7:55 am - 8:25 am, ES Hall)
- March 7 - Early Release Day (All Students Dismissed at 11:30 am)
- March 7 - ES Trimester 2 Report Cards Issued
- March 8 - CAC Holiday
- March 12 - Shelter in Place Drill
- March 13 - ES Fundraising House Event (more info in this link)
- March 15 - Movie Night 3:10- 4:15
- March 18 - May 17 - ASA Session 3
Math Challenge
Every week we have a rich Math task that challenges students’ thinking and helps them transfer their learning of concepts to different real-life situations. We encourage students to have a growth mindset and give it a try. Students are expected to work independently throughout the week. If they have any questions, they should consult with their teacher before the end of the week. Teachers will review the problem with the students on Wednesday (since Thursday is a holiday). To find the rich task, click on the Home Learning tab on the top left-hand and then click on the “Math Challenge of the Week”. Also you can click here for fast access.
Core Value Books
The core value for March is PERSEVERANCE. We will be sending home the core value book about perseverance: Emmanuel’s Dream. Please read it with your child, then return it to school for the next student to take home.
What is the definition of perseverance? The core value definition of perseverance is “never give up and work towards a goal”. What would your kid add to this? What does this mean to them?
Discuss with your kid how perseverance...
- Is used by adults in the workplace,
- Is used by students outside of school,
- Applies to school situations,
- Benefits when mastered,
- Consequences of not possessing it.
Shelter Drill
We will be having a drill on March 12 to practice shelter procedures. Teachers will discuss this as “shelter practice” with students in age-appropriate ways, but you may also want to also talk to your child about the subject. Last year, we shared this article with helpful suggestions for talking to children about safety procedures and practices. One of the things addressed is the impact of the terminology we use. Staff members will be going over this in advance, as we work together to ensure that students feel safe, protected, and aware of what to do in different situations.Read this article to find out how to talk to your kid in these kind of situations.
The drill will be held at 12:00 pm, so if you are on campus, we ask that you follow instructions when asked to go to a safe place.
Everyone who is outside will be moved to the ES Hall.
After School Activities
This week, there are no after school activities. The sign up for the new activities begins on Sunday March 4 at 4 pm. List of activities and Sign up form will be posted on the ASA Website. The sign up will be open for 1 week until March 10.The 2nd annual Egyptian schools Championship - March 22/23, Montaza Gardens,Alexandria
Calling all students, parents, teachers & staff.Please register in this link.
Questions to Ms. Ereeny (egergess@cacegypt.org)
What’s Going on This Week in Grade 2
Readers’ Workshop
Grade 2 continues to work in our 5th unit Reading About Science Topics to Become Experts. In the first bend, we will focus on reading as scientists to build up a base of knowledge on a topic by reading deeply about the topic. Readers will choose what they want to learn about, read about it, and integrate ideas from the science unit forces and motion. Students will learn to analyze text in parts in relation to the whole by using non-fiction features. Readers of nonfiction texts will learn to use all the sentences on the page to think about what’s most important—the big, main idea of that section. We often say our main idea not just as a word but instead as a phrase and back up this idea with details.
The students will focus on the following essential questions:
The students will focus on the following essential questions:
- How do readers read non-fiction differently from fiction?
- How can I read non-fiction books to become an expert on a topic?
Writers’ Workshop
This unit is integrated with our science unit forces and motion. students will learn to write lab reports and science books. In the first bend, we will learn to write as scientists do. When scientists conduct experiments to learn about the world, they have a certain way they usually write - they use a lab report format. They record what they expect to happen in an experiment, and they record what they actually do in the experiment, then they record how things go and what they learn. Students enjoy this unit as it is hands on and they become scientists as they explore simple machines and forces and motion.
The students will focus on the following essential questions:
The students will focus on the following essential questions:
- How do I find out information about a topic?
- Why do I need to revise my writing?
- How do I present my findings to the world?
Math - Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000 with Word Problems up to 100
In Module 5, students build upon their mastery of renaming place value units and extend their work with conceptual understanding of the addition and subtraction algorithms to numbers within 1,000, always with the option of modeling with materials or drawings. Throughout the module, students continue to focus on strengthening and deepening conceptual understanding and fluency. This week we will do the Mid-module assessment and go over it to complete our two stars and a wish.
Some of the objectives are:
Use math drawings to represent additions with up to two compositions and relate drawings to the addition algorithm.
Choose and explain solution strategies and record with a written addition method.
Essential QuestionsHow 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 5:
I can add and subtract numbers from 0 to 1000 using different strategies based on place value and regrouping.
I can mentally add or subtract 10 and 100 from any number from 100 to 900
I can explain why various addition or subtraction strategies work using numbers, drawings, or objects.
*Don’t forget to check out Eureka Math.
*Tips for parents: Module 5, Lessons 13-18
Use math drawings to represent additions with up to two compositions and relate drawings to the addition algorithm.
Choose and explain solution strategies and record with a written addition method.
Essential QuestionsHow 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 5:
I can add and subtract numbers from 0 to 1000 using different strategies based on place value and regrouping.
I can mentally add or subtract 10 and 100 from any number from 100 to 900
I can explain why various addition or subtraction strategies work using numbers, drawings, or objects.
*Don’t forget to check out Eureka Math.
*Tips for parents: Module 5, Lessons 13-18
Science
This week we will explore levers. How does an inclined plane make work easier? Check out this BrainPOP movie (username: cacegypt, password: cacegypt) to learn more about levers.
Essential Questions:
How do objects move?
How does force and motion help me understand the world around me?
Some suggested discussions you can have at home:
Essential Questions:
How do objects move?
How does force and motion help me understand the world around me?
Some suggested discussions you can have at home:
- Discuss how simple machines help us in everyday living using unit vocabulary: direction, slide, back/forth, pulley, movement, push/pull force, gravity simple machine - any of the basic mechanical devices for applying a force, such as an inclined plane, wedge, or lever, wheel and axle, pulley
- Force - energy that moves something
- Effort x distance = work
- Discuss motion and forces.
Circles
Focus: displaying perseverance especially when working with others, in the classroom, at school, at home, and in the community.
In guidance we are discussing strong emotions, how they make our bodies feel and calming down strategies. It is important for kids to understand that everyone gets upset but that we are still responsible for our behaviors.
We discussed the concept of “flipping our lids” and how to calm down when our emotions take over our thinking. We are sharing calming down strategies and practicing different ways to calm ourselves down when upset. Grade 2 students will make a calm down jar that they can use as another strategy for calming down strong emotions.
Please share with your children strategies that you use when you have a strong emotion.
Best Wishes,
Ms. Purpura
Counseling Corner
Dear CAC Parents,In guidance we are discussing strong emotions, how they make our bodies feel and calming down strategies. It is important for kids to understand that everyone gets upset but that we are still responsible for our behaviors.
We discussed the concept of “flipping our lids” and how to calm down when our emotions take over our thinking. We are sharing calming down strategies and practicing different ways to calm ourselves down when upset. Grade 2 students will make a calm down jar that they can use as another strategy for calming down strong emotions.
Please share with your children strategies that you use when you have a strong emotion.
Best Wishes,
Ms. Purpura
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