We will teach them One and All
Young to Old and Big to Small
Inspire, engage and educate
Improve our world and make it great
Challenge All to grow, exceed
So one day They will take the lead…
Important C4 News
Thursday, 11/5 - Friday, 11/6 - No school
Tuesday, 11/10 - Laurel Circle music rehearsal with Mrs. Kane
Tuesday, 11/10- Wednesday, 11/18: The Crim Thanksgiving Food Drive is where non-perishable food items are collected in school and then distributed to other Crim families in need. Any excess food will be donated to families in the district or the local Food Bank. Students and families who choose to donate items should bring them in between 11/10/26 and 11/18/26. This year, we are asking that each class be responsible for a different food. Our class is responsible for canned vegetables. Thank you in advance for your generosity!
Friday, 11/13 - Spirit Day - Wear Crim spirit wear or red and black.
Tuesday, 11/17 - Ms. Spagnolo, our guidance counselor, teaches a lesson on "Maintaining Self-Control."
Picture Day make-ups
Thursday, 11/19 - Tuesday, 11/24 - Parent/Teacher Conferences, 4 hour sessions for students
Friday, 11/20 - Topic 4 math assessment
Wednesday, 11/25 - 4 hour session for students and staff, Thanksgiving Break begins
Thursday, 11/26 - Friday, 11/27 - No school, Thanksgiving Break
Reading: The first unit builds excitement around a new year and gets the Daily 5 reading workshop up and running with an introduction to the procedures for participating in a new classroom reading community. Second graders learn to take charge of their own reading and build good habits. They follow the routines, procedures, and expectations for the Daily 5 reading workshop. They review and apply what they already know about reading and seek out “just right” books. Students also practice reading with stamina, engagement, and fluency.
Writing: The "Writing Community" unit helps students see themselves as contributing members of a writing community. They hear and discuss examples of good writing and learn about the writing practices of professional authors. They generate writing ideas by drawing, listing ideas, and writing sentences. The students write about their lives. They approximate the spelling of unfamiliar words, use ending sentence punctuation and capitalize proper nouns and the first letters of sentences. The students also learn the cooperatives structures "Turn to Your Partner" and "Think, Pair, Share." They share in pairs and with the class, applying taught speaking and listening skills.
Grammar
What Do I Know From First Grade?
This unit is designed to review the aspects of grammar that was previously taught in Grade 1. The unit will be on-going throughout the year. Students will have the opportunity to review previously taught skills. In reviewing the core concepts from prior years, students will be ready to connect new ideas to their prior learning. This unit reviews fundamental applications of capitalization, parts of speech, punctuation and sentence composition.
Phonics Unit: long and short /oo/
Handwriting: Zaner/Bloser - In the first unit, the emphasis will be on reviewing basic strokes and properly forming manuscript uppercase and lowercase letters as well as numerals 1-10.
Math: In topic 4, your child is learning to add within 100 using various strategies. In this topic, he or she will learn to add two-digit numbers using place-value strategies on a hundred chart.
The Grade 2 Family Engagement Link will bring you to Envision resources that are designed to make math concepts more accessible and engaging for both you and your child.
Social Studies: Students will learn about their community and develop knowledge of the laws and rules needed to live, work, and sustain different types of communities. They will also learn about the responsibilities of being a citizen and the ways in which citizens contribute to a community through leadership and service.
Science: In the Physcial Science unit of study, students demonstrate an understanding of observable properties of materials through analysis and classification of different materials. The crosscutting concepts of patterns, cause and effect, and the influence of engineering, technology, and science on society and the natural world are called out as organizing concepts for these disciplinary core ideas.