Dear Parents, 

        It was such a great week spent together, getting to know each other and our routines. Your children really impressed me as they handled challenges that they’ve never handled before. School looked a lot different, but we still had lots of fun learning! 

       In math we’ve been busy counting money. This is a very challenging task for second graders. Counting in their heads does not usually work. As we started in remote learning, we draw the coins as circles, put what the coins are worth on the circles. Then count up underneath as we add each coin. Practice at home is appreciated. We will continue to work on this difficult skill throughout the year. 

        In reading we continued to focus on the central ideas of stories as we read Mango, Abuela and Me and Meet Me Half Way. In social studies we reviewed our treatment agreement, learned our classroom expectations and classroom safety measures. On Friday we learned about Patriot’s Day. We wrote an acrostic poem about peace.

       In writing we compared the writing process to making a work of art out of Play-Do. We sculpted (rough draft), added (revised), took away (edited)and completed our work of art (published). We began using our spelling dictionaries and became fearless spellers. We wrote about things we like on a capital I. 

       In science we continued on with our properties of matter unit. We sent home the science safety contract to be signed by your second grader and yourself. Bringing it back earns them their science safety license. We used our observational skills to classify items as a class. We had an investigation in which we wrote down the properties of a frozen gummy worm/ not frozen gummy worm, a popsicle/ a melted popsicle, and a deflated balloon/ inflated balloon. We found that it was fun being a scientist!