2nd Grade Newsletter

Hello 2nd Grade Families,

Thank you for another wonderful week with your amazing kiddos! We had a great time wrapping up some projects and diving into exciting new units of learning.

🌟 Math
We’ve moved on from geometry and have started exploring measurement! Students have been busy measuring shoes, desks, classroom objects, and even their friends! Ask your student what new measuring rules and tools they’ve learned about this week. They’re becoming quite the experts!

📚 ELAR (English Language Arts & Reading)
We’re putting the finishing touches on our platypus research projects by completing the final step in the writing process-sharing/publishing. Students are creating a google slides or posters to show off what they’ve learned, and they’re so proud to share their new knowledge. They are also learning how to perform a presentation digitally. It’s been wonderful watching them combine creativity and technology to present their work!

🗺️ Social Studies
This week, we’re learning all about maps...directions, landmarks, and how to get from point A to point B. Don’t be surprised if you start hearing some enthusiastic “backseat drivers” helping you navigate around town!

🔬 Science
We’re wrapping up our Sound Unit with a fun, hands-on performance task. Students are working together to plan and build their own instruments to demonstrate how force affects sound (volume and pitch). Next week, they’ll put their plans into action!

In fact, we could use your help gathering materials for this project. Please send in any cardboard pieces, empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls, empty tissue boxes, cups, straws, dry beans, or rice you might have at home. Your donations are greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your continued support and for sharing your wonderful children with us each day. We’re looking forward to another exciting week of learning before heading out for the Thanksgiving break.

💜 The Second Grade Team

November 17-21: Book Fair

November 20/21: Grandparents and Special Friends Day

November 24-28: Thanksgiving Break/No School

December 2: Gift Wrap Essentials Donations Due

December 2/3: CogAT Testing

December 4: Hoodie Drive Donations Due

Thursday, November 20:

Kinder: 10:15 - 11:00

2nd Grade: 11:15 - 12:00

4th Grade: 12:15 - 1:00

Friday, November 21:

1st Grade: 10:15 - 11:00

3rd Grade: 11:15 - 12:00

5th Grade: 12:15 - 1:00

We’re excited to welcome our grandparents and special friends to WRE’s annual Grandparents & Special Friends Day on November 20th and 21st.

Join us for a traditional Thanksgiving meal and celebrate together as a school community.

Please fill out this form for each student you have attending WRE, even if your family will not be participating in the special day. This information helps us plan for the 2-day event.

We can’t wait to celebrate this tradition with our WRE families!

Please join Windsong Ranch Elementary in supporting Cornerstone Christmas, which brings joy to 350 local children by providing them with a magical Christmas experience. WRE Hope Squad and Strong Team are hosting a Gift Wrap Essentials Drive including wrapping paper, tape, bows, gift tags, medium and large gift bags and tissue paper.

Here are ways to donate:

• Drop off gift wrapping supplies at the front office by December 2.

• Sponsor a gift or a whole child by clicking here.

• OR Contribute online through Cornerstone's wishlists: Amazon and Target

Prosper ISD will administer the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) to second and fourth grade students district-wide in December. The CogAT is a norm-referenced, standardized test measuring learned reasoning and problem-solving skills in three different areas: verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal. Reasoning skills develop gradually throughout a person's lifetime and at different rates for different individuals. CogAT result information is used by teachers to better understand a student’s ability in relation to his or her achievement.

There is no need to prepare for this test. You can support your child by making sure they are rested and well-fed on the day of the test.

Our campus will test on the following dates:

2nd Grade: December 2nd and 3rd

4th Grade: December 4th

Results will be shared with you in early January.

• If you are dropping off your child’s lunch, please make sure to bring it NO LATER than 12:00 PM.

  We truly appreciate your help in making sure every child has a stress-free and smooth lunchtime. Thank you for your cooperation and support!

• Please make sure your child is not bringing any toys to school. Several students are taking their Labubus off their backpacks and playing with them throughout the day or taking them to Specials. These items need to be left at home. Thank you!

• Along with weekly Phonics practice, have your child read something of their choice for 20 minutes a night or 100 minutes for the week. Please see the Take Home Support pictured here for more guidance on At-Home Phonics activities. This paper is also located in each student's purple folder.

• Your student is now expected to type in their own username and password to log in to their chromebook. Log in to Skyward to find their username and password and help them memorize it at home!

• Please be sure to bring a labeled water bottle and healthy snack daily.

• Please check Take Home folders each week for teacher communication regarding classroom behavior and to empty contents.

ELAR:

• I can use features and graphics to locate and gain information.

• I can interact with sources in meaningful ways by illustrating and writing.

• I can recognize the text structures and patterns in informational texts.
• I can develop and follow a research plan.

• I can use concrete models of square units to find the area of a rectangle.

• I can read and write time to the nearest minutes using analog and digital clocks.

• I can distinguish between a.m. and p.m.

Social Studies:

• I can create maps to show places and routes within the home, school, and community.
• I can identify and use the information on maps and globes using basic map elements such as the title, cardinal directions, and a legend.
• I can explain the significance of Thanksgiving.

Science:

• I can design and build a device using tools and materials that uses sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance

*Please see your child's purple folder for and this link for Take Home Support. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tm-NrPI5hBY71I4YBcpjG-GI3st_sVUN/view?usp=drive_link

Families are allowed to sign up to have lunch with their student on the stage each month.

A few reminders:

• Only provide food for your child (no sharing or bringing food for others).

• Plan to sit on the stage in the cafeteria. You may only sit with your child.

• Lunch visitors can sign up here. To allow space for all families and time for your student to grow his/her social skills, please avoid signing up multiple times a week.
• If all spots are full, you are welcome to enjoy a picnic lunch outside with your child.
• Don’t forget to bring your ID when checking in.

Our Character Trait is GRATITUDE. Please check out the Family Connection that was sent home and pictured here to see how you can continue practicing gratitude at home.

If your student is going to be absent, email the doctor's note or excuse to windsong-attendance@prosper-isd.net. You will also need to enter the absence into their Skyward account. Attendance / Absence Information

Please check out the Sign-Up Genius to be a Mystery Reader for your child's class. Please bring a school-appropriate book with you. It can be one of your child's favorite books, a seasonal book, or any children's book. If you have questions, please reach out to your child's teacher. Thank you for signing up!

Elementary Curriculum Maps

Location: 800 Copper Canyon Drive, Prosper, TX 75078
Phone: (945) 678-2500

Heather Broadwater hmbroadwater@prosper-isd.net

Meg Cable macable@prosper-isd.net

Cheyanne Campbell cjcampbell@prosper-isd.net

Brittany Ramos baramos@prosper-isd.net

Rachel Smith resmith@prosper-isd.net

Kristina Wicker kdwicker@prosper-isd.net

Jennifer Womer jdwomer@prosper-isd.net