2nd Grade Newsletter
February 23, 2021
Important Dates & Reminders
- March 1st-- Morning meeting and NO tiger time.
- March 4 and 5th are Asynchronous Days
Language Arts
What are we learning?
During the final weeks of our poetry unit, students will continue:
- Making connections to poems they have read
- Thinking about what poems might really be about and what the author might want them to know or feel
- Using expression and pace to show the mood of a poem
- Reacting to language, imagery, and experiences told through poetry.
- Using techniques and tools to bring out what’s important or the meaning of the poem such as repeated lines, words, white space, and line breaks
- Sharing poems and listening to poems of their peers to get new ideas for writing poems
Home/School Connection
Supporting Your Child with Reading at Home
- Providing choice is a wonderful way to support your child with reading at home. When students have choices about what they read, how they read, and the time they read, it increases their motivation to read, and it helps them make decisions about themselves as readers. Your child may choose to reread a favorite book 5 days in a row, only read the pictures some days, read a graphic novel, read something that is too easy, read under the covers, read on a device, or ask you to read to them. All of these choices and experiences are helping your child develop as a reader and, most importantly, helping him/her develop a love of reading!
Math
What are we learning?
- We are returning to some math skills from earlier units:
- We will read, write, and identify the place value of each digit in a three-digit number.
- Identify the number that is 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, and 100 less
- Work on continuing patterns
- Start new topics:
- We will identify time
- Count and compare value of money up to $2.00
Home/School Connection
- Have your student tell you the time throughout the day!
- Have your student count coins!
Social Studies
What are we learning?
- The student will compare the ideas and contributions of explorers Christopher Columbus and Christopher Newport and the impact on our world today
Home/School Connection
- Why do people explore new lands?
- How does a place change when people explore and settle in new lands?
- How were the Native people, who already lived in North America, affected by European exploration?
Positivity Project
What are we learning?
- February 21 - 27: OPM - Cheering Others’ Success
- February 28 - March 6: Enthusiasm
Home/School Connection
Check out P2 for Families website: https://posproject.org/p2-for-families/