2nd Grade Newsletter

By 2nd Grade Team
Second Grade
March 15, 2024

Important Dates & Reminders

  • No School March 25th - April 2nd; Spring Break and end of the quarter 
  • Clubs are beginning!
    • Monday’s: Friendship Bracelet Club, Drawing Club
    • Wednesday’s: Get Your Wiggles Out

Updates on Our Learning:

Language Arts

  • Reading: We have started our Critical Literacy unit, during which students will be challenged to think about other people’s perspectives and whose voices are represented (or not represented) in the texts they read. 
  • Writing: We are starting our Persuasive Letters, during which students will write letters to express their opinions and aim to create positive changes in their lives and the world. 
  • Phonics: We will continue to learn about vowel teams (two or more letters that work together to make a vowel sound) such as ea, ee, ay, and ai

Math

  • We have started our Two-Digit Addition and Subtraction Unit. Students will learn to use efficient strategies to add and subtract larger numbers. Students will learn to compose and decompose (regroup) tens as part of this work. 

Science

  • We are continuing our Matter and Forces Unit. Students are learning about matter (anything that takes up space) and the states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas). Next, we will be learning about forces and motion. We will learn to classify a push and a pull. We will also explore magnetic forces!

Social Studies

  • Our next unit will be on European exploration of the Americas and its impact on the indigenous people who were living on the land at the time.