Week 20 Jan. 30-Feb. 2

***Progress reports will be going home this week. Please make sure you look over them with your students, sign, and return them to your child's teacher.

***PTA letters went home and need to be returned no later than tomorrow, Jan. 31, if your child is participating in the PTA program on Feb. 14th.

***Women Projects are due Feb. 6th

***This Friday is a staff development day meaning there is no school for the students

This week in learning:

Reading - Plays and the elements that make up a pay (stage direction, characters, plot, problem, solution, dialogue

Grammar - commas in quotation marks

Spelling - changing y to i

Math - measurement (both customary and metric systems)

Science - classifying organisms - vertebrae/invertebrae

Social Studies - African American contributions to society

Week 19 - Jan. 23-27

This marks the 3rd week of the 4th 6 weeks. You should receive mid 6 weeks progress reports someby the end of this week. Make sure to sign and return it to your child's teacher.

Class pictures will be this this Thursday the 26th. Make sure if you plan to purchase one that you send the envelope with money to school on or before Thursday.

This week in our learning:

Spelling: 2 sounds of y
chilly supply mighty why family shy donkey try fluffy sky silky firefly

Grammar: Review of complete sentences with correct subject/verb agreement

Reading: This weeks focus is myths and what makes it a myth.

Math: 3 dimensional shapes and the vocabulary (faces, base, edges, vertices, cylinder, sphere, pyrimids, prisms, cube, etc.)

Science: Continuing study of insects and their life cycles and habitats

Social Studies: Amazing women in our history

Writingg: Students are still going through the writing process while attempting various types of fiction genre.

Thank you for all you do,
Sincerely,
the second grade teachers

Week 18 - Jan. 17-20

Welcome back!

Class pictures are coming up on the 26th

This week in our learning we will be exploring:

Reading: Legends and the features of a legend

Spelling: oo as in book and moon, ew
shook cookie fishhook notebook carpool balloon smooth chew flew blew few stew

Writing: Student will be going through the writing cycle and explore writing legends or fables

Grammar: Adverbs that tell how such as quickly, quietly, smoothly, etc.

Math: 2-D and 3-D shapes

Science: the life cycle and habitats of silkworms, butterflies, milkweed bugs, and mealworms

Social Studies: Wise Women through the years

2nd semester of 2nd grade!!! Jan. 5-6 AND Jan. 9-13

Welcome Back!!! We hope you all enjoyed your holiday break as much as we did. It is time to open those young minds and get back to learning!

Report cards went home today. Please sign and return them as soon as you can.

Also, if you have not returned your mealworms/beetles to school please do so with the vial they were in. If they passed away during the break please return your vial cleaned out. Thanks

Dates to remember:
Monday, Jan. 16, is a No School Day in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
We will be taking the mid year ISIP test in the computer lab towards the end of the month.
Thursday, Jan, 26, is Class Picture Day

This week in our learning:

Spelling: Long O words spelled oa or ow
show float blow coal coat soap roach roast tow grow know window

Grammar: Special adjectives called Articles: A, And, and The

Reading: Fables

Writing: Go through the writing cycle using various fiction genres: Fables

Math: A review of counting money up to a dollar

Science: Habitats of milkweed bugs and butterflies

Social Studies: Good citizenship at home and school and what it looks like