2nd Grade

Our first nine weeks are completed and this group of kiddos have done amazing! We learned our routines, raised money for our school, jumped into reading and stretched our minds in Spanish. We have had lessons with Mrs. Zimmerman, some intense soccer games, and yearbook pictures completed!

We are always welcoming donations for our classroom. These items we always seem to need:

- tissues

-dry erase markers (black)

- markers

- glue sticks

- presharpened pencils

- rubber erasers

*Also, remember your child's teacher when you clean out toys, board games, blocks and puzzles. We love "hand-me-downs" for recess toys! Our soccer kids go through soccer balls- we would love a back up ball or two!

Fundations-glue sounds, suffixes, syllabication, vowel teams

Shared Reading: Unit 1: Native Americans (The Hopi People, The Cheyenne People, The Cherokee People, The Mohawk People) Unit 2: Actions and Consequences (A-z Mysteries: The Kidnapped King, Cam Jansen #27: The Mystery Writer Mystery)

ELA: Unit 1: Weather (Going Home, Animal Migrations, Tornado) Unit 2: Native American Legends (The Girl Who Loved Horses. The Legend of the Blue Bonnet, Arrow to the Sun) Unit 3: Our Money Our Choices (Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday, Who's Buying? Who's Selling? My Rows and Piles of Coins) Unit 4: My Story, Your Story (Miss Rumphius)

Writing: Informative Writing: Native American Research Report, My Earning/Saving/Spending Plan, Book Review: Miss Rumpius

Unit 3: Grouping and Counting Flexibly to 120: Grouping and Counting Patterns/Thinking Flexibly with numbers up to 120

Unit 4: Measuring My World: Making Direct Comparisons, Using Physical Models of Measuring Units, Using Measuring Instruments, Measuring time, length, weight

Unit 5: Conceptual Development of Addition and Subtraction

These standards are integrated into our other subjects, but we will be covering and assessing Economics, Geography, Indigenous Nations, European Contributions and Weather.

On Tuesday, November 24, our grade will have our field trip to Skyline Caverns in Front Royal Virginia. We will depart from school around 9am and return before 1pm. Upon our return we will have lunch in our classrooms. We are asking parents to send students with a morning snack we can eat before we leave. At this time- no chaperones are needed due to size costraints during tours.