Weekly News

 Weekly News for 2-P 12-12-25   

 *Thanks for sending coats, mittens, and hats daily. Also, please send indoor shoes daily or send a pair to leave in the locker.

* We could use donations of cleaning wipes.

         

*This week in social studies work we continued our Wabanaki unit learning about the Penobscot and Passamoquoddy culture and language. We loved hearing Passamoquoddy wind songs.

 

*We finished unit 5 of Reveal Math. This week we worked hard on adding multiple addends with various strategies, including adjusting one addend to friendly numbers for easier adding, adding the tens and then the ones, or decomposing one addend so we can add mentally. We did a lot of review work to refine our skills and completed the unit 5 test.

*We published and shared our science articles on Tuesday and then we began a new writing cycle with more explanatory writing. We are working on invention reports. After examining a model of this writing and the rubric that laid out our expectations, we used Pebble Go to find an interesting invention and did our own research. Students took notes on a graphic organizer. Next week we will draft our report. 

*Our grammar work was focused on using object pronouns when writing (her, him, they, us, them). Our spelling pattern this week was long i patterns. In phonics work we focused on long i patterns and then vowel team review. We are learning lots of patterns at a time now, so extra practice is helpful for us to master these as spellers.

*During reading workshop we focused on reading books about inventions and identifying facts from these narrative nonfiction texts. These books helped us prepare for our individual writing research projects on inventions. We delved into some big questions such as,  “How did this invention make life better or change the world?”

UFLI Story Leader

Playing Sentence Scramble

Groups had to work together to put a scrambled sentence into the correct order!

Writers shared their science articles on Tuesday.

We liked hearing our classmates' articles.

A surprise visitor read us a Hanukkah story on Wednesday, Mrs. Singer!

We liked meeting Mrs. Pols's mother, who taught third grade at WCS for 20 years. She taught two of the parents in the current second grade class!  

Weekly News 12-5-25

 Weekly News for 2-P 12-5-25 

 *Thanks for sending coats, mittens, and hats daily as the weather turns colder. Also, please send indoor shoes daily or send a pair to leave in the locker.

         *This week we learned about color words of the Micmac Nation and also found out all about the Penobscot Nation, which included reading a book called Sunu’s Basket. We are recording new learnings through book responses and in our Wabanaki Languages booklets.

*In math this week we practiced strategies for efficient addition with doubles facts, learned to decompose one addend to make friendlier numbers, practiced partial sums addition and also learned how to adjust addends to friendly numbers. Students are gaining experience with using these strategies independently. We will keep practicing! 

*Our writing work this week focused on writing science articles. First, we had to do some research on our topics (using books and Pebble Go). Then we had to use a flow chart to plan out the steps involved in our topic. We wrote drafts using paragraphs! On Thursday we drafted these pieces. Next week we will revise and edit our drafts before publishing. Our grammar tie-in was learning about past, present and future tense as it relates to verbs.

*In UFLI phonics we worked on both long e and long o patterns. Our spelling unit this week was long o patterns as well.

*During reading workshop we read science articles to help support our writing work. We learned to do “close reading,” where we read a text several times to pull out different pieces of information (finding new vocabulary, locating headings and titles, main ideas).

Planning Page for our science articles

We loved Kuno's Basket

Indoor recess fun!

Wabanaki Languages Learning

UFLI story -student leader

Building long o words in UFLI

Decomposing addends

Birthday Girl!

Practicing long e patterns

Weekly News

 Weekly News for 2-P 11-21-25

*Conferences are Monday,  November 45th from 12:00-6:00 pm. I look forward to seeing you all!

*Monday and Tuesday (November 24th and 25th) are half days with noon dismissal.

 *We kicked off unit 5 in math this week. We worked on doubles facts and how we can decompose one addend of an addition fact to make adding more efficient. We also practiced turnaround facts and adding 2 two-digit numbers using place value strategies. We are playing lots of fun games to practice our facts and improve our mental math skills.

*During reading workshop we focused on reading books about the Wabanaki people. We enjoyed learning about their way of life and what’s important to them. 

 

*In writing workshop we turned our attention to writing news stories, which was a fun change. Some topics included our Chewonki visit, Wacky Wednesday and Spirit Week. Students got a chance to practice writing a piece that answers who, what, where, how and why information about their topic. It was a challenge to keep it to the facts but we persevered!

*Our spelling pattern this week was long a patterns.  In our phonics program we worked on r controlled vowels and common long a patterns.

*This week we kicked off our Wabanaki Nations of Maine unit. Using our Wabanaki languages book we learned about where the Wabanaki people live in Maine, what is important to them, and how they love nature. We especially like hearing what their language sounds like! Our Scholastic News issue helped us see what a pow wow is like and we enjoyed learning about this celebration. We also learned about the first Thanksgiving!

News Stories

Turkeys from art class

Blue and Gold!

Writing a thank you to our 8th grade scientist partners

Blue and Gold Day!

Working hard to publish our news stories

Athletic Wear Day

A little concert after music class

Fun with 8th grade science class

WACKY HAIR!

Yummy Thanksgiving Lunch

Measuring how far our balloon cars went

Twin Day!

Practicing our listening/observation skills

UFLI Game!

Playing a doubles math game

Dress For Your Future Career Day!

Sharing our hero writing with the class

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