Weekly Newsletter 8/21

8/27 | PSP Coldstone Night!

9/7 | No School

9/8 | Fun Run Assembly

9/15 | Fun Run!

9/21 | No School

9/23 | Picture Retakes

9/25 | Field Day

Welcome Back to School! Yearbooks are now available to purchase (distributed in May). Yearbooks are $23 each, additional yearbooks are $18 each. USE THIS LINK

Cold Stone Creamery - August 27th @ 4-8pm ... CTE staff will be guest ice cream scoopers!

4:00-4:30 - Mr. Halley & Ms. Zavadil

4:30-5:00 - Ms. Christou, Ms. Labate, Mrs. Boutilier

5:00-5:30 - Mrs. Metheney & Mrs. Taraba

5:30 - 6:00 - Mrs. Long & Mr. Bartuska

6:00 - 6:30 - TBD

6:30 - 7:00 - Mrs. Bosco, Mrs. Tyler & Ms. Ranieri

7:00 - 7:30 - Mrs. Jakubowski, Ms. Carey & Mrs. Scott

7:30 - 8:00 - Preschool Ms. Shayla and Ms. Megan

August 24th-28th

Metheney | Art

Taraba | Music

Conner | PE

Taraba | Every Thursday

Conner | Every Tuesday

Monthly Reading logs are attached in your students Take Home Folder. Each night that they read they should record the amount of minutes and get a parent/guardian to initial.

We have been busy establishing our classroom expectations and routines while building a strong foundation for reading! We have enjoyed several meaningful read-alouds, including Giraffes Can’t Dance, The Magical Yet, and The Invisible Boy. Students have responded to stories in their reading notebooks and participated in constructive conversations with their partners.

We have also discussed the difference between fiction and nonfiction and have been working hard to build our reading stamina. We are so proud of the effort students are putting into becoming strong, thoughtful readers!

Next week, we will be taking our i-Ready Reading Diagnostic and continuing with our introductory reading unit as we learn more about ourselves as readers.

We have been practicing responding to our read-aloud stories and Benchmark texts. Students have been sharing their thinking about what they read and practicing how to support their ideas with details from the text.

We have also been working on improving our handwriting and typing skills. Students are building confidence and fluency as they practice writing neatly and using technology to communicate their ideas.

This week, we finished Lesson 0, which was a review of skills from last year. We also took our Unit 1 Pretest to help us see what students already know and what skills we will focus on throughout the unit.

In second grade, students will switch classrooms for math, so it is possible that your child’s homeroom teacher may not be their math teacher. We are excited about this opportunity for students to learn with different classmates and teachers!

Next week, we will complete our i-Ready Math Diagnostic and begin Lesson 1, which focuses on mental strategies for addition. Students will learn new ways to add, including making a ten and counting on. We are excited to build on our number sense and become more efficient addition strategists!