Upcoming Important Dates to Notes:
Spring Festival:
The entire campus participated in an exciting activity in celebration of Chinese New Year. It is tradition to prepare for New Years celebrations by shopping for special foods and traditional goods. All Pirates were given 6 yuan to spend and had great fun doing so. Ask your child about their experience and what they purchased with their yuan.
Biography History Project:
What an incredible project! The second grade students learned so much from each other about these amazing people they studied. Not only did they become experts on their subjects, but learned about sources of information, important note-taking skills and how to turn those notes in to paragraphs with topic and conclusion sentences. Check out the gallery to see your child presenting to the class!
Black History Month:
In addition to several read-alouds and discussions, we were so grateful to have Solange Hansen and Pebble Beach Campus student David Maluki share stories about Ron McNair and children in Africa. The students also got to experience a Black History timeline walk where we learned about black history from the 1600s to the present day, on posters created by Carmel Campus seventh grade students.
This Week in Second Grade:
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
Singapore Math
History/Social Studies
- Last Day of Winter Term - Friday, February 20
- Spring Break - February 23 - March 8
- First Day of Spring Term - Monday, March 9
- Zero Waste Week - March 16 - 20
- Free Dress - Friday, March 27
Spring Festival:
The entire campus participated in an exciting activity in celebration of Chinese New Year. It is tradition to prepare for New Years celebrations by shopping for special foods and traditional goods. All Pirates were given 6 yuan to spend and had great fun doing so. Ask your child about their experience and what they purchased with their yuan.
Biography History Project:
What an incredible project! The second grade students learned so much from each other about these amazing people they studied. Not only did they become experts on their subjects, but learned about sources of information, important note-taking skills and how to turn those notes in to paragraphs with topic and conclusion sentences. Check out the gallery to see your child presenting to the class!
Black History Month:
In addition to several read-alouds and discussions, we were so grateful to have Solange Hansen and Pebble Beach Campus student David Maluki share stories about Ron McNair and children in Africa. The students also got to experience a Black History timeline walk where we learned about black history from the 1600s to the present day, on posters created by Carmel Campus seventh grade students.
This Week in Second Grade:
In summary, here is what we have been working on in Grade 2:
Reading/Writing/Spelling
- Reading Workshop/Independent Reading- reading and choosing "just right" books and practicing habits and skills of good readers: rereading, visualizing, questioning, making connections, predicting, inferring, retelling, and summarizing; comprehension and fluency check-ins; keeping a reading journal and log
- Writing Workshop: practicing using similes and metaphors in our writing to show our readers what we want them to vividly see, feel, taste, smell, etc.
- Envisioning, planning, and writing our own fairy tales
- Peer and teacher conferencing and edting
- Lexia: Computer program practice and pencil/paper skill builder practice
- Fundations: practice identifying sounds and marking words
- Read Aloud: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, The Irish Cinderlad
Singapore Math
- Find the Missing Number; Finding Parts and Wholes; Learning to Make 100
- Methods for Mental Addition and Subtraction
- Fact Fluency and Mental Math practice
- Using a math journal to record rules, strategies and problems
- Math Challenges and Problem Solving
- Big Brainz - math fluency practice
- Kakooma math puzzles
- Math Tiles - Addition and Subtraction Balance Tiles; Add-A-Dot Tiles; Tens and Ones Place Value Tiles
History/Social Studies
- Biography project presentations