Important Dates

• October 12th:No School for students: Indigenous Peoples Day

Reminders

• If your child will be absent, please inform the office.

Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Students are learning to monitor their comprehension while reading and reread if they don’t remember what they have read or if their reading doesn’t make sense.
• Students are learning to explain their ideas about their reading and work to understand another’s idea about the text.
• Students are learning to generate ideas for their writing and talk with others about their writing in order to develop their ideas.
• Students are learning to independently follow the routines of our  writing workshop and initiate their own writing.

Home/School Connection

Sharing and Supporting Your Child’s Writing

We are so grateful for all you are doing to support your children as they continue their learning journeys from home!

Children need to spend time writing and illustrating their stories on paper to further their development as writers.  In our time together on-line we will also ask that children share the writing they’ve been doing by holding it up to the screen and reading it to us.  However, it is difficult to assess writing and see students’ work completely in this way.  So, we ask that you share their writing with us in the way that is easiest for you, so that we don’t miss a thing!

•  Take a photo of your child’s writing once a week or so and email it to us.
•  Drop an envelope with student writing at Terraset’s main office with our name on it and let us know you did so.

To support your children with writing, encourage them to tell stories before writing them, and when they talk about something that happened, say, “That could be a story!”  We tell students the pictures that go with the stories are important, too. Please encourage them to draw with details. We will be teaching children to write in full sentences with punctuation and capital letters where needed. You don’t need to edit for them, but you could remind them if they forget, to recheck their work.  While we encourage children to use resources like books they are reading or a dictionary to find spellings for words they don’t know how to spell – we support the use of invented spelling.  This is writing all the sounds they hear in a word they don’t know, and what they know about word patterns, to approximate the word. We will work with them on becoming stronger spellers.

Math

What are we learning?

• Students will gain an understanding of the base-ten numeration system and place-value concepts.
• They will develop fluency with basic addition facts and the related subtraction facts.

Home/School Connection

Counting collections: Have your student find and count out 100 things. This can be beans, cereal, pennies, paper clips, etc. Once they have found a collection have them sort it and see how many different ways they can organize their group.

Science

What are we learning?

• Students will understand that plants and animals undergo a series of orderly changes as they grow and develop.
• Students investigate and understand that living things are a part of a system.
• Students understand that weather patterns and seasonal changes affect plants, animals, and their surroundings.

Home/School Connection

• Have your child draw the 4 stages of a life cycle.
• Have your student draw the 5 Enstar stages of the caterpillar.
• Write about how  the weather is changing in fall. What might animals be doing to prepare for the cold winter.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• Students will gain understanding of patriotism through important symbols of the United States and traditional practices such as the Pledge of Allegiance
  • Symbols include the American Flag, the Bald Eagle, the Washington Monument, and the Statue of Liberty
• Students will be able to explain why we honor and celebrate major holidays including Indigenous Peoples Day
• Students will learn to use maps of the United States and the world to locate:
  • The 7 continents and 5 oceans
  • The equator, prime meridian and four hemispheres
  • Major rivers, lakes, mountain ranges and other major physical features of the United States

Home/School Connection

Ask questions such as:

• How might people honor and celebrate and honor events that happened a long time ago?
• What does patriotism mean to you?
• How does where people live affect their daily life?

Spend time looking at maps or globes in your home. Have conversations about the different continents and oceans. Make personal connections to places you have knowledge about or places you’ve been to or traveled through.

Positivity Project

What are we learning?

• October 4-10: Open-Mindedness
• October 11-17: OPM - Being present and giving others my attention

Home/School Connection

Check out P2 for Families website: https://posproject.org/p2-for-families/

Ask students how they are showing these characteristics in school, during clubs, sports, or any other activity they are currently involved in.

Class Compliments

• Dore: Our class is learning to use our tech tools responsibly, and it is so exciting to see so many students being brave and taking risks by trying new tools! I also noticed many students showing teamwork (the P2 trait we focused on last week) by helping each other! Way to go, team!
• Edwards: Our class is so flexible as we work though technology skills and our content skills! Keep it up 2nd graders!
• Gregston: Mrs. Gregston’s class has learned many skills for online school. They are ROCK STARS at using tools that have been introduced! My class has shown many positive traits during these first few weeks; patience, flexibility, perseverance, bravery and teamwork! I am so proud of all of you!
• Serrano: Ms. Serrano’s class has been working really hard at all of their tech skills. We are getting better each day at clicking on links, finding our individual sides in a Google Slides Deck and working independently! Keep it up, superstars!!

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials! 

Tech Help Desk:

Technology Support for Families