Dear Families,
Here is our week in review:
Social-Emotional Learning:
This week, we reviewed what the word “respect” means and how we can show respect in our classroom and at our school. We discovered that we can show respect to each other by listening and by paying attention to each other’s ideas and thoughts. We also discovered that we can show respect in many different small ways. Please consider doing your child’s “Second Step Home Link” assignment inside this week’s Home Folder. This is not required but if your child wants to return it to school on Monday that would be great.
Our ABS therapy dog, Bea, visited our classroom this week for a quick reintroduction. We got a chance to learn from Ms. Akey, Bea’s handler, and ask her questions about Bea’s days at school. Thank you for visiting us!
Ms. Nicole, our school SEL Coach, joined our class too for a restorative circle. A restorative circle provides a framework for the students, with the help of adults, to proactively solve problems and build stronger relationships together. This week, we learned about the importance of including everyone and respectfully listen to each other’s ideas. We will continue to build our sense of community and belonging with Ms. Nicole this semester. She will join us weekly for these wonderful opportunities. Thank you Ms. Nicole.
The students filled our classroom buzzy jar again for being safe, kind and responsible. We celebrated with a stuffed animal day. It was so fun to learn and play along with our favorite stuffed animals.
Reading:
We continued to practice our routines and norms in the reader's workshop. The students rotate beautifully between independent reading and Lexia already! Thank you for supporting this online reading program at home too.
We started reading groups this week too! It is wonderful to meet in small reading groups and enjoy books together. As you may recall from last year, the students participate in guided reading groups with a teacher/adult in a reader's workshop model. During these times, instruction is differentiated to meet each student’s learning needs and instruction addresses reading accuracy, decoding/phonics activities, fluency and comprehension. The students read a variety of books together and share their understanding.
We continued immersing ourselves in chapter books and different series. I am delighted to hear from many students that they have borrowed the books we read at school from the local libraries to read at home! Thank you for supporting their passion and enthusiasm for books at home! This week we completed our “Key Hunters” book (Eric Luper) and started a new series called “The Alien Next Door” by A. I. Newton and Anjan Sarkar.
Writing:
Fundations groups started this week. The students of Harmony will participate in small spelling groups led by different teachers on Harmony. The students are grouped by their individual spelling needs and they might not have their home/core teacher for this class. This year, all of our Harmony classroom teachers will teach groups along with Mr. Roth, our new Special Educator and Ms. Casey, our para educator. Students will have Fundations classes every day except for Wednesdays.
Second Grade Math:
This week, second grade mathematicians continued using their strategies to solve various story problems and looking at partners to 20, using both addition and subtraction.
This week, they also started working on building a deeper understanding of our number sequence, ordering numbers in consecutive and non-consecutive ways. They did a great job. They primarily worked with numbers up to 200.
We also explored place value definitions as we counted forward and backwards. The students are encouraged to look at three digit numbers as having components of groups of hundreds, tens and ones, for example. We built some of these numbers using our counting sticks, bundling up 10 groups of ten to show hundreds and bundled smaller groups of ten sticks to show the tens place, etc. The students realized that a number in the 500s is much larger than a number in the 100s.
We also continued writing our numbers to make sure the digits are not reversed, but correctly represented in print to reflect proper place value and direction.
News and Reminders:
ABS Picture Day is 10/7/22. More information will follow.
ABS has an “Open House” on Thursday, September 29th between 6-7pm. Parents and children are invited to visit our entire school and participate in a school-wide scavenger hunt. The School Bell has more information about this school-wide event. Hope to see you then!
Have a great weekend,
Maria
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