2nd Grade - Northwood Elementary School

Weekly Email Blasts

Happy Fri-yay! This week we showed a lot of what we are learning and have learned so far. We continued to practice understanding shadows. We also completed a timed writing with two different sources and continued to challenge ourselves to write paragraphs instead of sentences. Finally, we went back and reviewed our main addition strategies and compared numbers. We are also so proud of the Northwood Reading Bowl team for advancing regionals!

IN CASE OF REMOTE LEARNING: While the district has not yet made a decision about school on Monday or beyond, they have asked that we send home remote learning plans to be used IF/WHEN an inclement weather remote day is needed. Please see the attached PDF for remote learning options and continue to check the district website or the Northwood website for up to date information. Be safe this weekend!

Reading Skill Groups:

Students will participate in flexible reading groups across the grade level to receive instruction that best matches their individual reading needs. This means your child may work with different teachers during a small portion of the reading block, depending on the specific skills they are practicing or have already mastered. These groups change as students grow, ensuring they get the right support or enrichment at the right time. This will not change your child’s homeroom class, and your child will be with their teacher of record for the remainder of the ELA block. Flexible grouping simply helps us provide more targeted, effective reading instruction for every learner. Please reach out to Mrs. Imhulse if you'd like more information about reading skills groups imhulse@fultonschools.org.

Mark your Calendar:

2/4- World Read Aloud Day

2/13- All Pro Dads

2/16- Presidents Day, no school

2/17- Teacher workday, no school for students

Overview for Next week:

AVID-	My goal is to know other teachers’ names and greet them in the hall by name.
Reading ON-	I can visualize to understand a poem. I can identify the theme of a poem. I can use different poem parts to best analyze a poem.
Writing-	I can understand the features of an opinion writing. I can explain the “HIT” strategy for an introduction.
Math ON-/ADV-	I can solve 3-digit addition problems using the base-ten and/or the decomposing strategy. I can solve 3-digit subtraction problems using the base-ten and/or the decomposing strategy. ADV: I can solve 4-digit addition and subtraction problems using my strategies.
Math ACC-	I can identify, describe, represent, and locate fractions on a number line. I can draw visual models to show how to write fractions that name whole numbers. I can identify fractions greater than 1 on a number line and write them in fraction form and as mixed numbers. I can understand the meaning of the numerator and denominator in reading and writing fractions.
Science-	I can use my notes to review what I have learned about the Earth, Moon, and Stars. I can show what I know about space. MAJOR Grade: Astronomy Unit Test Thursday
Rethink-	I can identify the steps to solving a problem.
Grammar-	I can use different verb tenses in my writing.

Study Tools/Practice page:

Here are some practice pages for many different skills. You do not have to do them, but if your child is struggling, this could be great a tool for them!

ELA:

Comprehension practice (informational, and check answers as you go)

Fix the Sentences Game

Vowel Team Game

AR, OR, WOR, and WAR phonics review game

AR OR Letter Teams Video

MATH:

Addition Cards

Comparing Numbers

Daily Word Problems

Subtraction Cards

Place Value Review Game

Extra Resources:

· https://www.typingclub.com/

· https://www.turtlediary.com/

· Learning.com (accessed through Classlink)

LAST CALL

YEARBOOK

It’s time to pre-order your Northwood Yearbook—celebrating our 30th anniversary with this year’s theme: Go here to order: yearbookordercenter.com/job/26362 — and don’t forget, 5th grade families can purchase a dedication ad to honor their student! The ad must be designed and submitted by February 14th. Questions? Email Yearbook@northwoodpta.com.

Kindly,

2nd grade team

February

2-6-26

2-13-26

Hello parents and guardians,

Happy Friday everyone! We’ve had a fantastic week in second grade. The children loved Cranium Challenge Day! A few of the careers we learned about where architecture and aero space engineering. Students had a great time competing against classmates to build structures and hang gliders. The highlight of the week was the Valentine’s exchange. The students loved showing kindness towards each other! The weather has been beautiful this week and everyone is looking forward to the long weekend. We hope you all have a fun and relaxing long weekend and get ready for a short week next week.

Reading Skill Groups:

Students will participate in flexible reading groups across the grade level to receive instruction that best matches their individual reading needs. This means your child may work with different teachers during a small portion of the reading block, depending on the specific skills they are practicing or have already mastered. These groups change as students grow, ensuring they get the right support or enrichment at the right time. This will not change your child’s homeroom class, and your child will be with their teacher of record for the remainder of the ELA block. Flexible grouping simply helps us provide more targeted, effective reading instruction for every learner. Please reach out to Mrs. Imhulse if you'd like more information about reading skills groups imhulse@fultonschools.org.

Mark your Calendar:

2/16- Teacher Workday, no school for students

2/17- Teacher Workday, no school for students

Overview for Next week:

AVID-	My goal is to surprise others by showing random acts of kindness.
Reading ON-	I can identify elements of a biography. I can tell the main idea and supporting details of a text. I can use text features to help me understand what I am reading. Unit 4 Final Formative (Wednesday)
Writing-	I can annotate texts to use in writing an opinion essay.
Math ON/ADV	I can use solve 2-step story problems. I can add four 2-digit numbers.
Math ACC-	I can make equivalent fractions.
Social Studies-	I can tell how Jackie Robinson impacted the people of Georgia and the United States of America.
Rethink-	I can reframe challenges as opportunities to learn.
Grammar-	I can read and write words with vowel-r phonograms. (air/are, ear/ere, oar/ore).

Study Tools/Practice Pages:

Here are some practice websites/games/pages for many different skills. You do not have to do them, but if your child is struggling, this could be great a tool for them!

ELA:

Comprehension practice (informational, and check answers as you go)

Fix the Sentences Game

Vowel Team Game

Trigraphs / Diphthongs/ Long Vowel air-ear-are / Phonics Song

The 'air' Sound Made By The Trigraphs AIR, ARE & EAR. A Spelling and Phonics Rap Song. /ɛr/

MATH:

Addition Cards

Comparing Numbers

Daily Word Problems

Subtraction Cards

Place Value Review Game

EXTRA RESOURCES:

https://www.typingclub.com/

https://www.turtlediary.com/

Learning.com (accessed through Classlink)

LAST CALL YEARBOOK

It’s time to pre-order your Northwood Yearbook—celebrating our 30th anniversary with this year’s theme: Go here to order: yearbookordercenter.com/job/26362 — and don’t forget, 5th grade families can purchase a dedication ad to honor their student! The ad must be designed and submitted by February 14th. Questions? Email Yearbook@northwoodpta.com.

Have a great weekend!