2nd Grade

Second Grade Newsletter 2025-2026!

Summary of Module 6 Weather Wise: 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.

Reading: Over the course of Module 6 we will read texts that will help us answer the following

Essential Question: How does weather affect us? We will develop and work on the following reading skills and strategies: Text Features, Point of View, Making Inferences, Text Organization, Content Area Words, Making Connections, Cause and Effect, Ask and Answering Questions and the Elements of Poetry.

Summary of Module 8 Time to Grow: In this module, children will learn about the growth of plants and what they need to thrive. Plants are living things, just as people and animals are. They need air, water, and sunlight in order to grow and to retain their vibrant green leaves and healthy stems and branches. Learning about plants and how they grow is likely to ignite a spark of curiosity in a child’s mind.

Reading: Over the course of Module 8 we will read texts that will help us answer the following

Essential Question: What do plants need to live and grow?  We will develop and work on the following reading skills and strategies: Text organization, Text Features, Making Connections, Figurative Language, Retell, Story Structure and Cause and Effect. 

Writing Module 6 

Home Connection: To help your child identify elements they will need in Narrative Writing (these elements would include characters, setting, sequence of events and emotions), ask your child to identify these things in the fiction stories they read.  It will help them to develop their own story elements and emotions for their writing.

Writing Module 8 

Home Connection: Part of informational writing is gathering details about your topic. Have your child pick a topic of interest and write 3 of the MOST important details about their topic. When doing this activity, discuss with your child which are the most important details and which are less important

Math Curriculum: 

Module 4 & 5: Addition & Subtraction with word problem.

In this module students will work on their fluency of adding within 100.  Students will work on mastery of place value and renaming place values using the HTO chart and base ten models.  They will use place value to help them add and subtract within 1,000. They will add and subtract multiples of 100. Students will also solve problems using the following strategies: HTO chart, number line and vertical way.  

Home Connection: Please practice adding and subtracting multiples of ten. Also, students can practice mastering their skills following their individualized Skill Plan on Iready and IXl. 

Science 

In the next coming weeks we will move on to a new unit which will tie into our reading curriculum module 6 Weather Wise. The 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.

Social Studies 

We are currently in our unit about Government! We have discussed the constitution and why it is so important, our founding fathers and the three branches of government. We will also be learning more about each branch of government and how there is a system of checks and balances so that not one part of the government has more power than the other!

Music Curriculum: Students in second grade are performing rhythm patterns involving quarter notes, eighth notes, half notes and quarter rests. They are also reading melodies on a three lined staff. The students will also be learning songs that draw ties to weather patterns, how weather affects us and how weather makes us feel. 

Home Connection: 

Students can practice their rhythms with popsicle sticks. In the link below, Ms. Florio shows you how!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18tQj0KCGRmTM1yOtzqxlloRxMCSyoS1V/view?usp=sharing 

The students have learned songs that have connected to their previous HMH units. They will be culminating these songs in a performance for families in MAY. Students can practice their songs below.

HMH Unit - Meet Me in the Middle

Compromise Song

HMH Unit - The Seasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6wKk038Y0

Seasons Choice Board

HMH Unit - Weather Wise

Weather Wise Musical Choiceboard

Art

2nd Grade artists will connect to their HMH modules by creating art related to the weather. Students will create a snowman connected to winter. Students will draw a snowman in snow with white paint sticks. Students will choose warm or cool colors to create the sky with chalk pastels. Students will use oil pastels to draw the snowman parts and accessories.

Home Connection:

Students can observe the weather outside and describe what they notice and how it connects to their hmh modules and their artwork. 

Gym

Our 2nd grade students are having a great time in physical education as they build and strengthen fundamental movement skills through fun games and activities. They are practicing throwing, catching, jumping, jogging and balancing while learning the importance of teamwork, cooperation, and safe play. PE class helps second graders stay active, confident, and excited about healthy habits! 

Home Connection:

Children can stay active at home on the weekends and during vacation by taking walks, doing yoga, participating in Go Noodle videos, and exercising. 

Parent & Student Voice

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