Week of 10/21
Hello Parents!
I hope everyone had a wonderful week! Next week is Red Ribbon Week. We will be having a spirit day for each day next week. I have posted these spirit days below:
Monday 10/28/19: Wear Red Day to kickoff Red Ribbon Week
Tuesday 10/29/19: Mismatch/Backwards Day “Turn your Back on Drugs”
Wednesday 10/30/19: Team Day “Join the Drug-Free Team”
Thursday 10/31/19: Future Career Day “Your Future Self”
Friday 11/1/19: Pajama Day “Pursue your Dreams”
Upcoming Dates:
Race for Education 10/25
Fall Title One Open House 10/28 (9:30-9:55 Reading; 1:15-1:45 Math)
Red Ribbon Week 10/28-11/1 –> Below I have posted our Spirit Wear for each day that week
Monday 10/28/19: Wear Red Day to kickoff Red Ribbon Week
Tuesday 10/29/19: Mismatch/Backwards Day “Turn your Back on Drugs”
Wednesday 10/30/19: Team Day “Join the Drug-Free Team”
Thursday 10/31/19: Future Career Day “Your Future Self”
Friday 11/1/19: Pajama Day “Pursue your Dreams”
Scholastic Book Fair 10/31-11/7
Student Led Conferences (No School Days) 11/7 & 11/8
For inquiry this week, we wrapped up our conversations about aquatic habitats. Learners choose an aquatic animal of their choice to research. After researching ideas such as their diet, habitat, and life cycle; they began creating a Google Slide to represent their learning and show their creativity. Later in the week, we began to discuss career options that are interesting to us. Learners began researching various types of jobs to begin getting an idea for their interest areas. In reading, learners have continued working with nonfiction texts and identifying text features. We have been discussing why text features are important and how they help us while we are reading nonfiction texts. Next week, we will spend some more time on this. In math, we are solving addition and subtraction word problems. On Friday next week we will have our Unit Assessment. Learners will show their knowledge in solving various types of word problems.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me at hayley_hassinger@elanco.org
Week of 10/14
Hello Parents!
We had a great week in second grade. Just a reminder, the weather is beginning to change and we will continue to go outside. Please keep in mind the temperature. We will be going out as long as it is not raining or too cold. With that in mind, please send a jacket or sweater with your child to school to help them from getting sick in colder weather. Also, please encourage hand washing at home to prevent any sicknesses from spreading.
Upcoming Dates:
Race for Education 10/25
Fall Title One Open House 10/28 (9:30-9:55 Reading; 1:15-1:45 Math)
Red Ribbon Week 10/28-11/1 –> Below I have posted our Spirit Wear for each day that week
Monday 10/28/19: Wear Red Day to kickoff Red Ribbon Week
Tuesday 10/29/19: Mismatch/Backwards Day “Turn your Back on Drugs”
Wednesday 10/30/19: Team Day “Join the Drug-Free Team”
Thursday 10/31/19: Future Career Day “Your Future Self”
Friday 11/1/19: Pajama Day “Pursue your Dreams”
Scholastic Book Fair 10/31-11/7
Student Led Conferences (No School Days) 11/7 & 11/8
In class this week:
For inquiry, we continued talking about aquatic habitats. Learners choose an aquatic animal of their choice to research. After researching ideas such as their diet, habitat, and life cycle; they began creating a Google Slide to represent their learning and show their creativity. In reading, learners have begun working with nonfiction texts and identifying text features. We will continue talking about text features next week in my reading class and we will talk about their importance. During writing, we are continuing to work on writing character stories. Learners have developed their own characters and have created a problem and solution for their character. This week we spent the time writing our character stories. In math, we to reviewed subtraction strategies to help us solve the problems. We have also begun to talk about how to identify important information in a word problem and writing equations to match. Next week, we will continue to work on word problems in both addition and subtraction.
Week of 10/7
Hello Parents!
I cannot believe that we are already in October! As the weather begins changing, please keep in mind the temperature. We will be going out as long as it is not raining or too cold. With that in mind, please send a jacket or sweater with your child to school to help them from getting sick in colder weather. Also, please encourage hand washing at home to prevent any sicknesses from spreading.
Upcoming Dates:
No School for Students 10/14
Race for Education 10/25
Fall Title One Open House 10/28 (9:30-9:55 Reading; 1:15-1:45 Math)
Red Ribbon Week 10/28-11/1 –> Below I have posted our Spirit Wear for each day that week
Monday 10/28/19: Wear Red Day to kickoff Red Ribbon Week
Tuesday 10/29/19: Mismatch/Backwards Day “Turn your Back on Drugs”
Wednesday 10/30/19: Team Day “Join the Drug-Free Team”
Thursday 10/31/19: Future Career Day “Your Future Self”
Friday 11/1/19: Pajama Day “Pursue your Dreams”
Scholastic Book Fair 10/31-11/7
Student Led Conferences (No School Days) 11/7 & 11/8
In class this week:
For inquiry, we began talking about aquatic habitats. Learners spent some time exploring different aquatic habitats. We talked about the differences between ocean habitats and freshwater habitats. In reading, learners have begun to work on plot versus theme. We have been focusing on how we can determine the lesson that we learn from stories. During writing, we have been working on writing character stories. Learners have developed their own characters and have created a problem and solution for their character. This week we spent the time writing our character stories. In math, we began a new unit on adding, subtracting, and word problems. Learners took a pre-assessment on Tuesday. Throughout the week, we have begun to review addition and subtraction strategies to help us solve the problems.
Week of 9/30 – 10/4
Hello Parents!
We have had a great past 2 weeks in second grade! If you were unable to sign up for conferences at Back to School night, please contact your child’s ELA teacher to see when she has a time slot available.
Upcoming Dates:
Early Dismissal Day @ 12:30 10/4 (Dismissal will be at 12:20, lunch is provided at school)
No School for Students 10/14
Race for Education 10/25
Fall Title One Open House 10/28 (9:30-9:55 Reading; 1:15-1:45 Math)
Scholastic Book Fair 10/31-11/7
Student Led Conferences (No School Days) 11/7 & 11/8
In class this week:
We have continued Welcome Center Project that follows our Civics and Government unit. We are creating a welcome center to help new students at New Holland Elementary feel welcome and comfortable at the school. Students are working in small groups to plan and design a website using Google Sites for our Welcome Center. I will post our finished websites on Seesaw for you to access at home. In math, we are focusing on skip counting and place value concepts. At the end of the week, we will complete our Place Value Unit and have our post assessment. Next week, we will take our pre-assessment for our next unit “Fluency of Sums and Differences to 20 and Word Problems”. We will also be tallking about addition and subtraction strategies we can use to solve these equations and word problems. In reading, we have focused on key ideas, details, and themes of our books. For writing, we are working on narrative stories and character development in our stories. Our stories will focus on character development with a clear problem and solution.
I look forward to getting to know everyone and working with you to make second grade a successful year for all! If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me at hayley_hassinger@elanco.org