5th 6 weeks!!!

The year is winding down quickly, but there is still learning to be done.

*Tutoring letters for next week are coming home this week on bright pink paper. Please sign and return even if your student can not come.

*Report Cards will be going home on Thursday. Please make a point to view, sign, and return promplty.

*Wednesday will be an early release day. Please make sure your student has a way home at 1:25

*Six Flags Read to Succeed 6 hours is due Friday, February 24th to earn your free 6 flags ticket.

*Living Museum is coming up on Tuesday, February 28th. Remember second grade has inventors.

Our learning this week:

Reading: Review of Main Idea and Topic

Spelling: Contractions
we've I'm there's you'll aren't isn't you've that's she'll won't they're we're

*Grammar: Apostrophes in contractions

Writing: Research writing

Science: Plant Systems and ocean/land animal habitats

Social Studies: African American contributions (inventors)

Math: Capacity (cups, gallons, liters, milliliters)

Spring Break is only 14 school days away!!!

Week 22 Feb. 13-17

*Tutoring begins this week on Mon., Tues,and Thurs. If your student stays for tutoring please make sure they have a way home at 4:00p.m. Students may bring a small healthy snack for tutoring.

*Tuesday is Valentines Day! Students may bring Valentines for an exchange. Please make sure there are enough for the entire class.
Wuest - 17 Thompson - 16 Cooper - 17 Friedman - 23

*Tuesday, Feb. 14, is also our PTA program. Students need to be in their classrooms, dressed in class shirts and blue jeans, by 6:45p.m. You will need to enter the side door on Candleberry.

*Reading and Math CBA's will be on Wednesday and Thursday

Our Learning This Week:

Spelling: Review Week
window float tow roast fishhook balloon notebook stew mighty donkey why sky carry carrier supply supplied faithful lovely rewind unable

Reading: Compare and Contrast myths, legends, fables, plays, and poetry

Writing: Continue poetry

Grammar: Review
articles a,an,the; adverbs that tell how; review complete sentences; commas in quotation marks; comparitive/superlative (er,est)

Math: Fraction (CBA on Thursday)

Science: Plant systems

Social Studies: African American Contributions

This is the last week of the 4th 6 weeks. Please make sure any re-do work is turned in to the teacher by Wed. at the latest.

Week 21 Feb. 6-10

Our second grade PTA program is coming up on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14th. Please make arrangements to come hear your beautiful children perform in the cafeteria at 7:00p.m. Children will need to be here no later than 6:45.

Tutoring will begin next week. Please look for the golden color permission slips coming home if your child has been invited and write the dates on a calendar. It will be from 3:15-4:00 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Your child may or may not need every day. Please sign and return.

This week in our learning:

Reading: Poetry and its elements (rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and does it tell a story or a person's emotions)

Grammar: comparative/superlative adjectives (er and est)

Writing: writing short poems that convey sensory details

Spelling: prefixes and suffixes
repay unable faithful closely reuse unwrap bashful likely retry unkind joyful lovely

Math: measuring area with by counting the shaded or unshaded squares in a picture AND fractions

Scientce: Milkweed bugs: life cycle and meeting their needs

Social Studies: Great African Americans and their contributions to society

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