Dear Parents,
It’s hard to believe it’s the end of the first nine weeks! I am so proud of the progress your children have made. We have learned classroom routines and are getting down to serious second grade work. We are doing our best on our work and fixing our mistakes.
Field Day was a great success as I saw good sportsmanship and encouragement for our classmates! Thank you Coach Ray!
In math we made great strides as we understood how to subtract two digit numbers with and without regrouping ,then switched over to addition with and without regrouping to add to check our subtraction problems. We had our assessment on Thursday.
In writing we began our own narratives on a topic of our choice. We will take this piece through the writing process. We started by brainstorming five ideas, choosing one, then drafting our bold beginnings, mighty middles, and excellent endings. Next we will have several lessons on how to revise and edit our drafts.
In reading we read the story Gingerbread for Liberty, a story about a real American who made a difference. The skills we focused on were synthesizing the information and being able to retell it in correct time order using words like first, next, then and last. We took a comprehension check as well.
In science we had lots of practice changing matter and observing, then recording those changes in our science notebooks. We could cut, bend or break items. The big take away was that by making these changes we changed the properties of the matter, but the matter was not more or less than it was before we changed it. Next we used sand paper to change the properties of an animal cracker. We had lots of cracker dust, and animal crackers that looked completely different from when we started. This time there was less matter than when we started. We wrote about these differences in our science notebooks. We used bending and coloring to create paper airplanes- then tested them to see what properties made our airplanes fly the farthest. Congratulations to Bryce whose airplane won! Bryce went straight to the treasure box. We are in the process of testing our boats to see how many pennies they can hold.
I hope all of you have a wonderful long weekend with your friends and families!
*Please see the below Second Step information from our counselor Mrs. Moore. :
From the Counselor: Mrs. Moore
Parents,
LISD supports the whole child not only through academics but through Social and Emotional Learning as well. In an effort to build emotional capacities and leadership, each week your child will receive a Second Step Digital lesson. Within these lessons, student learning objectives of social awareness skills and emotional regulation will be taught. In conjunction with Second Step Curriculum, students are also offered access the Rhithm (an app which offers a daily read on each child’s emotionality and then generates a short video to support the child with a specific coping skill), The Child Protection Unit (how to stay safe), and The Bully Prevention Unit (pro-social skills and bully prevention). Parents will be receiving a weekly caption of each week’s lesson provided through your child’s homeroom teacher communication.
We invite you to preview each of the tools we use to teach Social and Emotional Learning. Please reach out to Mrs. Moore for a preview of the curriculum.
Thank you,
Stephanie Moore
Counselor
Coyote Ridge Elementary
972-350-4310
*My fall Conference sign up is here! Follow this link to the Sign up Genius. I am looking forward to talking to each of you about your children during our October conference times:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4CAFA82AA02-fall1
*From Mrs. Hernandez, our Librarian:
Storybook Pumpkin Patch
You are invited to be part of our Storybook Pumpkin Patch! What is this you ask, well let me tell you! Start with a pumpkin and then use your imagination and your creativity to turn your pumpkin into a book character. You can use paint, props or anything else you can think of! A plastic or foam pumpkin works great, but really any pumpkin will be great!
If you are using a real pumpkin, please NO CARVING! Even a small hole will cause the pumpkin to rot quickly!!!!!
Please bring your Pumpkin to the library the week of October 18th-October 22nd. I would like to have all participating pumpkins in so we can start our Pumpkin Patch visits the following week. Fill out the pumpkin form (attached or pick up a paper copy in the library) so it can be displayed next to your pumpkin. You may also include the book to be displayed next to your pumpkin!
All pumpkins need to be picked up between Oct 29-Nov 2 or they will be thrown away.
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