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    This is Mrs. Bass’s fifth year teaching at Pittsfield. For the past four years, she has taught fourth grade, and she is very excited for a new adventure teaching second grade! She loves living here in New Hampshire, but is originally from upstate New York. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, where she…

Second graders are expected to spend 30 minutes on homework each night. Fifteen of these minutes are for reading. What the children reads is up to her/him. The other fifteen minutes will usually be a short math assignment based on that day’s math lesson and a written paper in reading or writing literacy. We encourage…

Thank you for the time, energy, and materials you contributed to your children’s extremely successful Rube Goldberg projects.                                                                          …

  Here at Pittsfield Elementary School we teach using the Four Blocks Literacy Framework as well as the Everyday Mathematics program. The four blocks consist of Guided Reading, Self-Selected Reading (SSR), Working with Words and the Writing Block. These blocks, as well as mathematics, are taught daily. In addition, students will be exposed to Science…