Grade 2 Email Blast January 5, 2018

Dear Families,

Happy New Year! This cold weather has made for an interesting week back from holidays. Check with your child if they need new crayons, colored pencils, or pencils for school. Please check that your child’s snack is somethingeasy and quickto eat (finger foods): pretzels, goldfish, graham crackers, granola bars, and of course fruit is the best (cut up).

Dates to Remember

January 8: Town Hall Assembly for whole school
January 15: No School (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
January 19: Cultural Arts Assembly (Step Afrika)
January 24: Winter Instrumental Music Concert in gym
January 25: Early Release for students @ 12:55 (2ndmarking period ends)
January 26: No School for students (Professional Day for teachers)

Reminders

• Please send in a note in your child’s folder with dismissal plan changes. If the change takes places during the day, please call office. Teachers are working and may not be able to check their email during instructional times.

• Bring snack

•Please check the S.T.A.R. notebook daily for notices

• Please review graded papers and fill out the form and return the packet of papers and the form back to school. The teachers will keep the papers for the remaining of the marking period.

Homework

Homework packet is due Friday, January 12

Curriculum:

Writing: During Media this marking period, the students have been researching a country. Using this information, the students will write their own version of a folktale. They will include characters, setting, problem, solution, lesson, and specific information about the country in the folktale.

Reading:We are back to reading non-fiction text! We will identify the main idea of the text and key details.

Math:We will solve one and two-step word problems using the strategies we have practiced in class:number lines to add and subtract two-digit numbers.We will continue to work on using strategies to fluently add and subtract within 100. Such strategies are: “Make 10 (6+4, 7+3)”, decomposing numbers to add ( 48 + 42 40 + 8 40 + 2 40 + 40 = 80 8 + 2 = 10 therefore, 80+10=90). Using place value and expanded form skills we learned earlier are now helping students to add larger numbers/

Please continue to work with your child to add and subtract numbers within 20. By the end of the year, the should be proficient in this skills without using their fingers or drawings to add and subtract basic facts.

Science:We will continue with our exploration in engineering and design working with how parts make up the whole object.

PTA Information:

This Week's News from the Woodlin PTA:

(1) How to Talk to Our Kids about Race and Racism (Tuesday, Jan 9, 6:30pm)

(2) Sign up now for Spanish, Mandarin or French classes! (deadline Jan 15)

(3) PTA After School Clubs: Winter Session Starts NextWeek

(4) Save the Date: Winter Dance on Saturday evening, Feb 3. Details to come!

(1) How to Talk to Our Kids about Race and Racism (Tuesday, Jan 9, 6:30pm)

Please join your PTA onTuesday, Jan. 9thfor our monthly PTA meeting. We are so pleased to offer a parent education class focused on talking with kids about race and racism. This will be anadult-onlydiscussion and babysitting will be provided. Pizza dinner will be available in the APR at6:30, and then the adults will move to the Media Center for the discussion from7pmto8pm. See the description below.

Every night, parents and kids hear about events and incidents that are frightening, difficult to understand, and often uncomfortable to talk about. Join us at theJanuary 9th PTA meetingfor a discussion about how we can talk to our kids about race and racism, led by two experts in the field who are also mothers engaging in this discussion with their own children. The meeting is Tuesday, Jan 9, from6:30-8:00pm in the Woodlin all-purpose room.

Nicole Leeis a strategist, coach and public policy leader. She was the first female President of TransAfrica, the nation’s premier African American foreign affairs organization and founder of the Black Movement Law Project, an organization affiliated with the Movement for Black Lives. From Haiti to Ferguson, she has led international and domestic investigations and missions documenting human and civil rights violations. A strategic campaigner, she works with community organizations to ensure their voices and concerns are heard. As a coach, she works with change makers to ensure they have the tools to live their best lives. As a trainer and facilitator, she works with community organizations, schools and families to achieve equity goals.Nicole has just completed a project entitled “75 Conversations with Parents about Race and Racism” in which she interviewed parents from all walks of life about their communications with their children.

Beth Wheeleris a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 12 years of training in working with individuals, couples, and families. Her areas of expertise are: adoption, trauma, sexual and gender identity. She is experienced in working individually and in groups across differences of race, class, sexuality, gender and gender identity, ability, and culture. She has an education and consulting business that works with individuals, families, schools, organizations and groups in building community, having honest conversations across difference, and increasing diversity, equity and inclusion. Beth is also a white, lesbian, and trans-racial adoptive parent raising two African American boys with her wife in Takoma Park.

(2) Sign up now for Spanish, Mandarin or French classes!

Woodlin PTA partners with Language Stars to offer Spanish, Mandarin and French classes to Woodlin students before school.Register by 1/15/2018, at “Enroll” and search “Woodlin”)

Spanish,Wednesdays, 8:00-8:50am,K-1st (1/10-2/28/18)$137
Spanish,Wednesdays, 8:00-8:50am,2nd-4th (1/10-2/28/18)$137
Spanish,Fridays, 8:00-8:50am,K-1st (1/12-3/9/18; no class 1/26)$137
Mandarin,Tuesdays, 8:00-8:50am,K-1st (1/9-2/27/18)$137
French,Thursdays, 8:00-8:50am,K-1st (1/11-3/1/18)$137

*Additional discounts may apply. Sibling and Multi-program discounts available. Minimum of 10 enrollments required for classes to run.Call773-935-7827option 4 for more information.

(3) PTA After School Clubs: Winter Session Starts NextWeek

The winter session of PTA after school clubs begins next week (Tuesday clubs on Jan 9, and Thursday clubs on January 11). If you have any questions about clubregistration, pickup changes, etc., contact Jennifer Nolen at Little Scholars:

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Have a good weekend! Stay warm!