A tremendous "Thank You!" to all of our Second Grade Families for...

• the many kind and thoughtful & generous gifts prior to Winter Break! We hope you know and felt our appreciation!
• the continued home support over the Winter Break. We had a handful of students complete and return the optional practice packet for bonus PARK tickets.

😊 Thank YOU for being a big part of our growth! 😊

Many wishes of a grand New Year for all of the Second Grade Families! How exciting to welcome in 2025! We are always eager to return from Winter Break to see how our students have grown: missing teeth or new teeth filling in, inches grown, and/or longer-shorter hair! Most of all we are so proud to see our students ready to take on the 2nd Semester of Second grade. We are moving quickly to solidify the foundation of reading and mathematics! We have lots to focus on as the second 1/2 of Second will be a whirlwind of learning.

It's that time of the school year... time to evaluate our academic strides and growth progress. 😁 The beginning of the third quarter brings us to revisiting goals and revising. We will take a close look at our recent benchmark assessments such as the iReady Math diagnostics, NWEA, and DIBELS. Each assessment will guide us in supporting our students. Individual student data folders involve our students in his/her own learning. We chart our successes on the ORF (Oral Reading Fluency) as well as how many sight-words read.

*LOOK FOR STUDENT REPORT CARDS COMING HOME THIS WEEK*

Please promptly sign & return the envelop.

We are thrilled to announce ... class t-shirts have arrived and will come home this week. If families would like to order a shirt in the near future-please contact your child's teacher.

We shall soon have a field trip for our Second Graders!! 🤓. We are planning a possible visit to the Arizona Science Center during the month of February. Watch the field trip notice to come home soon... as soon as we have the date & bus confirmed.

Check the link below for opportunities to get Volunteered trained. Chaperones must be trained prior to a scheduled field trip. 😁

https://www.dvusd.org/a-z-guide/volunteering

Module 6 Weeks 1-3:

Essential Question: "How does weather affect us?"

In this module, children will learn how weather changes from day to day and from season to season. Through texts and collaborative work, children will explore types of weather they may experience quite often, or may never experience-such as blizzards or hurricanes. Children will also learn to notice how the weather affects them and their communities.

Essential Skills:

• Suffixes -y, -ly
• Multisyllabic Words: Suffixes -y, -ly
• Prefix dis-
• Inflections: Spelling Changes
• r-Controlled Vowel ar
• Multisyllabic Words: ar
• Inflections: -s, -es (plural)
• sounds for c and g (/s/ and /j/)

• Inflections -s, -es
• Sounds for c and g
• r-Controlled Vowel ar

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Please continue to read together and incorporate comprehension questions- such as:

What is the story trying to tell you? "I noticed.... it means...." "What do you think will happen next?- Predict what the ending will be..."

Units & Lessons & Sessions

UNIT 3 (contiuation)

Numbers Within 1000: Place Value, Addition, Subtraction,-comparing numbers

*The following standards are our focus objectives for this new Unit. This is definitely another essential Math Unit for 2nd Grade! We are bridging our understanding of numbers and increasing the rigor of addition and subtraction of larger numbers. These lessons will focus heavily on place value, grouping/regrouping of numbers:

2.OA.A.1

Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

2.NBT.A.1

Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g. 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones.

2.NBT.A.3

Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

2.NBT.A.4

Compare 2 three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using symbols: >, =, and < to record the results of the comparisons.

2.NBT.B.5

Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

2.NBT.B.6

Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.

2.NBT.B.7

Add and subtract within 1000- drawing models, using place value charts.

2.NBT.B.8

Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900. Mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900.

2.NBT.B.9

Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

Part of getting into our regular routines... Please work with your child in practicing Fluency, Spelling Skills, and Math Skills. These packets will have the focus sound of our reading cycle as Spelling words. (The first packet had a focus on prior sight words as a practice.) The following packets will have a focus sound related to the phonics skill being taught. Fluency passages have a section for a timed reading. Second graders will build their oral reading fluency throughout the school year; this first passage is a review from First Grade. Math pages are a review of skills taught daily and will reflect lessons that have already been taught in class. Remember, if you have any questions regarding the home practice pieces-please reach out to your child's Teacher. We are happy to help!

The POWER of YET ... We are READY!

dena.mills@dvusd.org

daniella.trif@dvusd.org

deante.livingston@dvusd.org