Thank you for all the work you’ve done reminding your second grader to ROAR. We will be learning more about weather, start learning about Fractions and even try our hands at Realistic Fiction as we move through this month.

Important Dates & Reminders

• February 14 - Valentine’s Day - Reach out to  your child's classroom teacher about how this day will be celebrated
• February 20 - President’s Day  - No School
• Make sure your child comes to school with one quick and healthy snack and water bottle every day.
• Please be sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather. Unless it is raining or the county says it is too cold to go outside, second graders will go outside every day for 30 minutes. 
• Please report your child’s absences by contacting their teacher, the main office and filling out the attendance form. https://timberlanees.fcps.edu/about/attendance-form. In addition to reporting your child's all day absence, you can now use our online attendance form to report a late arrival or early dismissal.

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

In word study, students learned about complex consonants. 

• Students learned how combining letters in different ways can represent different sounds.

In reading, students learned to:

• notice the patterns between poems and other types of text or the patterns between poems
• will begin to identify the patterns within poems  and how the reader uses those patterns to understand its theme
• will begin to identify patterns among word choice, alliteration, symbols and different devices within and across poems

In writing, students wrote poems and learned how to 

• use adjectives and add details  to enhance their writing
• make decisions about how they want their poems to look on a page
• use poet techniques (repetition, rhyme, white space, and line breaks)

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

In word study:

• students will learn about r-controlled vowels.

In reading, students will be learning to:

• consider character relationships, motivations, and perspectives to understand an author’s message.
• reflect on their own experiences and relationships to connect to problems, actions, or lessons learned by characters in the story.
• change or strengthen their thinking after talking about what they have read.
• connect fictional relationships to real life relationships.

In writing:

• students will begin writing Realistic Fiction stories.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Students continued exploring adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers to 99.
• Students have also begun to explore place value and 3-digit numbers.  
• Students will continue to learn how to read, write, and identify the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number.
• Students will continue to learn to identify the number that is 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, and 100 less than a given number up to 999.
• Students compared and ordered whole numbers between 0 and 999.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

In math, students will learn to

• Name and write fractions represented by a set, region, or length model for halves, fourths, eighths, thirds, and sixths.
• Represent fractional parts with models and with symbols.
• Compare the unit fractions for halves, fourths, eighths, thirds, and sixths, with models.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Students began to learn about weather. 
• Students will learn about meteorologists and tools they use to predict and measure the weather (rain gauge, wind vane, and thermometer.
• Students will learn about different kinds of precipitation (rain, hail, sleet, and snow).
• Students will learn about different storms, the damage these storms can cause, and how to stay safe in these storms (thunderstorm, tornado, blizzard, and hurricane).

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

Students will continue to learn about:

• weather. 
• meteorologists and tools they use to predict and measure the weather (rain gauge, wind vane, and thermometer.
• different kinds of precipitation (rain, hail, sleet, and snow).
• different storms, the damage these storms can cause, and how to stay safe in these storms (thunderstorm, tornado, blizzard, and hurricane).

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month: 

• Students learned about Martin Luther King Jr. as we honored and celebrated him on his birthday.
• Students finished the unit in the American Indians.
• Students compared the lives and contributions of three American Indian cultures of the past and present.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

• Students will learn about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as we celebrate President’s day.
• Students will learn about European Explorers and Early Americans.

Other News

• Laptops will go home with your child every Friday.   It is important for them to return their laptop, charger, and laptop bag to school every Monday as they will be needed in the classroom during the week. 
• Laptops may also be sent home if there is a chance of snow in the forecast.
• FCPS has shared the following statement.  The first five inclement weather days will be traditional “snow days” with no school activities. After those five days, we will hold virtual learning days, whenever possible, to maintain continuity of learning. Virtual learning on these days will be synchronous (live) instruction following the inclement weather virtual learning day schedule which includes a two-hour delay.
• Laptops can be used at home to go on Lexia, ST Math, or other sites posted on Timber Lane’s website.  If your child is not using their laptop at home, please have them keep it in their backpack in a safe location in your home.