We’ve had another great month in second grade!

Important Dates

• November 1 & 2, 2021 - Teacher Work Days, no school for students
• November 11, 2021 - Veteran’s Day, early release for students
• November 18, 2021 - 2nd Grade Field Trip to Huntley Meadows
• November 24 - 26 - Thanksgiving Break, no school

Reminders

• Please send in the Field Trip permission form and payment if your child will be participating. 
• Make sure your child comes to school with a snack, water bottle, and an extra mask every day. 
• Contact the attendance office if there is a change to your child’s schedule.

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

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

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• We will begin our non-fiction unit.  Students will learn to ask and answer questions as they are reading and identify the main idea of the text.
• Students will continue to work on their decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills during whole group and small group instruction.   
• In writing, students will begin writing “All About” books.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

• We completed our first base 10 unit.  In this unit, students learned to read, write, and identify the place value of each digit in a two digit numeral.  
• Students learned how to identify the number that is 10 more and 10 less than a given number, compare and order numbers, and round to the nearest ten. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Students will learn to estimate and measure length to the nearest inch, estimate and measure weight to the nearest pound, and read the temperature on a Fahrenheit thermometer to the nearest 10 degrees. 
• We will begin our next Addition and Subtraction unit.  We will determine and estimate sums and differences. Create and solve single-step and two-step problems.  
• Students will continue to practice equality through the use of the equal (=) and not equal (≠) symbol.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

We completed our unit on Monarch Butterflies.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Students learned about United States symbols and traditions.
• We also studied United States geography and learned how to identify the seven continents and five oceans. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• We will begin our unit on the Powhatan and the Lakota Indians.  Students will compare the lives and contributions of American Indian cultures of the past and present.
• Students will describe the relationship between the geography, climate, environment, and culture of the Powhatan and Lakota.