Week of 10/27-31

 Hello Second Grade Families,

Upcoming Events

Friday, October 31: End of Quarter one (and Ms. Fox's last day with us - though she'll just be moving down the hall for her next student teaching placement.)

Friday, October 31: Our Halloween Party! Some friends are bringing a special snack for our party. Here is the list they came up with:

Halloween - Friday, 10/31/2025

Protein and Grain: Savanna

Fruit: Kelsey

Vegetable: Asher

Treat: Conaire

Treat: Delyliah

Drink (and Cups): Saweyer

Plates and Napkins: Zander

End of October/Early November: BABY ARRIVAL! I'll keep you posted!

Due November 7: Holiday Book Orders (coming home soon!) Click link on side of blog to place an order!

Tuesday, November 11: Veteran's Day Assembly at 9:30

Wednesday, November 19: PTO Meeting 6:00-7:30 - The PTO would love to have new parents join their team!

Grading: If you have questions about our grading scale in elementary grades, please refer to the school website here for more info!  https://www.princetonschooldistrict.org/district/standard.cfm 

Homework:

~Math sheet (every week!)

~Read about 10 minutes per night - I have started sending home their decodable stories that we are tearing out of their workbooks. These can be reread at night too!

~Check planners.

What are we learning?

Character Strong: Week 3 of RESPONSIBILITY - NEWSLETTER HERE!

ELA

Module 3: Meet in the Middle (we are in week 2)

HELLO, FAMILY!

Over the next three weeks, our class will be learning about working out conflicts and disagreeing with others in a respectful way.

We will read about how to get along and compromise, and even learn tips about settling differences from a conflict-solving superhero. Children will also write a persuasive essay about an issue that may cause disagreement.

BRING IT HOME! Learning fun for the whole family!

Big Idea Words. Reinforce these important topic words when you are reading or talking with your child: compromise, decision, disagreement.

Try to incorporate questions like these into everyday conversations:

·        What would be a fair compromise for blank?

·        What is a good decision you made recently?

·        How could this disagreement be worked out?

Let’s Read Together. Make a special time and place to read with your child every day.

During this module about solving problems, try these activities during your reading time together:

·        Raise your hand when the text explores a problem.

·        Point to words in the text that describe how people feel.

·        Take turns reading aloud the main character’s dialogue.

Word Play. Play with words to help develop skills that are important for reading.

Week 1: Sneaky e Words

Make a list of words that can have a silent e added to them to change the vowel sound from short to long. For example, tap/tape.

Week 2: Round Robin

Take turns naming words with tch or dge. See who can name the most words.

Week 3: Fun with Syllables

Write multisyllabic words on slips of paper. Choose a slip of paper and hop forward the number of syllables in each word. Designate a finish line and play until someone wins.

Math

This week we will finish/review Unit 1 and take our Assessment to see what we learned and remember about all of the story problem types we worked on.

Social Studies and Science

We are finishing a Science lesson on identifying frog species by their special calls. We also are nearly finished with our animal unit, so we found out that it was 15 million Mexican Free-Tailed Bats in the cave we were studying this unit. 

In Social Studies we will read 2 Scholastic News issues and work a bit with a grid map. 

Let's have a great final week of First Quarter!

Mrs. Naparalla