Second Grade Happenings December 18-22

Our last week before Winter Break is already here! It is sure to be a fun one both at school and at home!

Our field trip to Barlow Planetarium is on Thursday. If you volunteered to chaperone, please be at school by 8:55. We will leave at 9:00 and will return by 11:00.

We will also have Pajama Day on Thursday. We'll be nice and cozy at Barlow!

Just a reminder that there is no school on Friday or next week. Classes will resume on January 2.

Curricular Notes:

-We continue to read fiction this week. We'll be studying how important it is to pay very close attention to the beginnings of our stories so we can identify the main characters, describe the setting, and retell the important events that have happened. We'll also work on summarizing the important parts rather than retelling every tiny detail.

-We are finishing up our measurement unit in math this week. We'll review and take the test right after break. Our next unit will focus on subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers.

-The kids are enjoying our new writing unit which focuses on realistic fiction! We have generated ideas for stories that can keep our readers at the "edge of their seats" with a real problem that real kids could encounter. We are using all we learned in our small moment narrative unit from earlier this year to make our fiction stories come alive!

-We started a new unit in science which focuses on solids, liquids, and gases. We've been studying water and the forms it can take. We'll focus on evaporation this week before moving into a lessons on mixing and separating solids and mixing solids with liquids.

I truly hope that you enjoy your time together as a family this winter break! I'll be looking forward to reuniting with the kids in January!