Reindeer Training Camp in PE.....keep scrolling for more pics underneath

 Mr. Hutchings makes this so much fun!

Weekly News 12-19-25

 Weekly News for 2-P 12-19-25

  

  School resumes on Monday, January 5, 2026! Happy Holidays to you all!

          *In math we kicked off unit 6 with practicing strategies for subtraction, specifically counting up or counting back for efficiency. We also learned to make a 10 for easy subtraction. Then we delved into 2 digit subtraction practice and used base 10 blocks for this work. Students carried over much of their thinking from our addition unit. After break we will hit subtraction with regrouping!

*In writing workshop we revised, edited and published our invention reports. We learned to write paragraphs for this piece and did a separate paragraph for the beginning, middle and end. We continue to work on crafting clear sentences and are all striving toward increased independence with capitalization and punctuation.

*We completed our Wabanaki unit this week and learned about Abenaki color and family words. We loved the book “The First Blades of Sweetgrass,” written by two Maine authors! 

*Our spelling work was long 0 patterns.  Our phonics work centered on the short and long sounds made by -oo or -u. 

*We had a school-wide holiday sing-along Wednesday afternoon and Friday was filled with fun in our classroom community. We engineered the tallest snowmen we could (out of toothpicks and marshmallows), drew a holiday snow globe, ate popcorn and fruit,  listened to some holiday music, did holiday fun packets and more. What a great group of kids - we have a blast together - and I’m so grateful for their joy every day. 

Snowman Challenge

Addition Bingo - holiday addition

Holiday Phonics Game

Working hard on an Art Kid Hub Directed Draw!

Holiday Puzzle Packet

An amazing indoor recess creation!

These guys love the matchbox cars and ranps

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!