September 2023 2nd Grade Newsletter

By 2nd Grade Team & Jenny Collins
Second Grade
September 14, 2023

Important Dates & Reminders

  • September 7th - Back To School Night
  • September 25th - No School - Yom Kippur
  • October 9th - No School - Indigenous People’s Day

 

  • Sign up for a parent teacher conference if you have not already done so.
  • Make sure your child comes to school with one easy and healthy snack every day.
  • Contact the attendance office if there is a change to your child’s schedule.
  • Please remember to have your child wear sneakers on PE days.

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month

  • Building our stamina and monitoring our reading 
  • Reading and having conversations with a partner
  • Following the writing process and sharing our writing with others

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

  • We will learn about characters’ traits and feelings by noticing what they say and do. 
  • We will write personal narratives. These are stories about small moments that gave us big feelings.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month

  • Learning the Math Workshop Routines
  • Practicing our data collecting and graphing skills

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

  • Counting by tens, fives, and twos
  • Solving real world addition and subtraction problems within 20

Science

This past month we focused on building our classroom community through our Social Studies lessons.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

  • We will be learning about the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly as we watch the caterpillars we found grow.
  • We will learn more about life cycles and how different animals respond to the change in seasons.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month

  • We focused on building our classroom community and establishing routines.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

  • We will learn about symbols, traditions, and United States geography.