Hello Second Grade Families,

Upcoming Events

November 3: No School

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 4 of RESPONSIBILITY - NEWSLETTER HERE!

ELA

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

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 begin Unit 2. In Unit 2, we will work with money, addition and subtraction with larger numbers, and other number concepts.

Science

We have a lesson coming up which will give students an opportunity to consider what type of bird feeder different species of birds would prefer.

Important News!

Mrs. Toepfer will take over this week while I am out on maternity leave for about 12 weeks. Baby Owen was born Monday, 10/27/2025 as many of you saw in my Class Dojo post. If you still don't have access to Class Dojo, click here to get it set up!

Let's have a great start to Quarter 2!

Mrs. Naparalla

Halloween looks like they had fun with Ms. Fox on her last day student teaching with us. Wish I could've been there!