Weekly News for November 30th- December 4th

(Holiday Concert Dress Rehearsal)

Dear 2nd Grade Families,

This week in 2nd Grade...

Reading- The children continue practicing their retelling skills through a variety of strategies including the 5-finger retell (where each finger represents one part of what they need to include), the feelings retell (where they use how the main character felt throughout the book to retell), and the journey retell (where they think about all the places the main character goes in order to retell).  

Writing- Students continue developing their opinion writing skills by writing nominations for books that they think deserve an award.

Math- This week we finished up our geometry unit.  The students learned about parallel lines, 2 and 3-D shapes, and lines of symmetry.

Social Studies- Students are learning about geography and specifically they are learning how to identify the following physical features (land forms) of the earth: mountains, valleys, deserts, plains, rivers, oceans, islands, and lakes.

Extensions for Learning/ Notices & Reminders:

• Let's keep kids safe this holiday season! It's every adult's responsibility to help keep kids safe from abuse, and open communication is one of the best strategies. Earlyopenoften.org contains shareable child protection resources designed especially for families, with tips on how to start sensitive conversations and reinforce safety rules. 

• Vacation check out privileges are available to Lower School students and families beginning Thursday, December 3rd. All material previously checked out from the library must be returned before borrowing more items for the vacation. Please remind your children to look for and return the materials already due.

  
  

  The Lower School Library vacation hours are:

   

  December 14 - 23 & 28 -30, 2015

  09:00 - 12:00 & 13:00 - 15:00

  
  

  January: Closed

• Parents, please note that Thursday, December 10th will be our last school day of 2015. It will be a half-day for all Graded students, dismissal will be at noon. We look forward to seeing everyone back at school onTuesday, January 26th, 2016. 

Till next week...
The 2nd Grade Team