September

Week of 9/23

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:

Book Bingo 6:30-8:00 PM 9/27 (Tonight 🙂 )

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 next week, we will complete our Place Value Unit and have our post assessment.  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.

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

Week of 9/9

Hello Parents!

It was wonderful meeting many of you at Back to School Night. Conferences will be held with your child’s Language Arts teacher. If you were unable to sign up for conferences, please contact your child’s ELA teacher to see when she has a time slot available.

Upcoming Dates:

Intruder Drill (during school) 9/20 – A letter regarding this went home earlier in the school year

Race for Education Labels Due 9/20

Book Bingo 6:30-8:00 PM 9/27

Race for Education 10/25

In class this week:

We began working on our 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. In math, we are focusing on skip counting and place value concepts. We will continue working on this over the next few weeks.

 

First Weeks of School

We had an amazing first 2 weeks of school! We are looking forward to lots of fun learning!

Upcoming Dates:

9/10 Back to School Night

9/20 Intruder Drill Practice

9/27 Book Bingo 6:30-8:00 PM

During our first weeks of school, we participated in a lot of collaborative activities. In small groups, we planned, designed, and created bridges and towers out of only a few materials. Here are some pictures of our bridges we created.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have also started switching classes for ELA and Math. In ELA, second grade is working on classroom routines, beginning rotations, and focusing on main ideas and key details in text. In math, second grade is working on classroom routines, beginning rotations, skip counting, and place value concepts.

Over the next few weeks, we will continue to focus on key ideas and details in ELA. In math, we will focus on place value concepts and skip counting.

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