Dear Parents,

I hope you had a great three-day weekend. This is the third week of our fourth quarter. Every week draws us closer to the end. It’s becoming really hard to write my weekly news letters because they are a constant reminder that the end is near. I am excited though to see our wonderful scholars move on to the next grade level.

Here is a quick look at our 31st week:

LANGUAGE ARTS

SPALDING –We will continue our spelling words this week. Encourage your scholars to continue to practice writing their cursive. We will continue practicing in class as well. Students are not mandated to write in cursive now.

List 1: use, thought, person, nor, or, January, mean vote, court, copy

List 2: act, been, be, yesterday, among, question, quest, doctor, size, December

List 3: dozen, there, tax, number, October, reason, fifth, baking, bake, bowl

READING – READING STRATEGY: In comprehension, we will focus on Sequencing. Students will retell the order in which a story is told.

POETRY: Title: “Lincoln” by Nancy Byrd Turner. We will do a make-up for all those that could not complete their poetry recitals this week.

SAYING: Our saying this week is, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks."

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – We will continue learning about prepositions. They will learn the last six prepositions. We will also begin to look at synonyms.

WRITING – As we continue working on Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. Students will review letter writing this week as well. We started writing paragraphs officially this week. Students learned that a paragraph is made up of at least 3-5 sentences. It must have an introductory sentence, three support sentences, and a closing sentence.

LEVELED READERS – Your scholar will bring home a chapter book to read. Please, encourage them to continue to write their reflection logs. Please, have them take care of the book as well.

MATH

This week, we will continue learning about fractions. Last week, we focused on identifying fractions and comparing fractions. This week, we will focus on identifying fractions within a group.

SCIENCE

We will do a very short quiz to round off our unit on Eating healthy on Tuesday. We will begin studying Magnets. Students will explore the kinds of material that magnets are attracted to. They will explore north and south pole of magnets. Our focus will be on the vocabulary: attract and repel.

HISTORY

  In History, We will begin our study of The Civil War. Students will be able to understand the disagreements between Northern and Southern states over slavery. They will learn about people like: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriete Tubman, and Abraham Lincoln. They will also learn about the story behind Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Underground Railroad.

VIRTUE OF THE MONTH – Responsibility/Humility

To hold yourself morally accountable for actions within your control.

OWN your actions

The price of greatness is responsibility."

— Winston Churchill

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

• We will continue reading and math groups this week.
• Our Fine Arts night is on Wednesday April 8^th.
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Your child went home last week with a brochure that outlines all of the exciting camps being held, here at Archway Arete, during the Great Hearts Summer Academy. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Posner atjposner@archwayarete.org. 

• You are encouraged to try out this wonderful Math Resource KhanAcademy.org
• Save the date for our grade wide event on Friday April 10th at 6pm. 
  Come meet other 2nd grade families at Peter Piper Pizza to enjoy some dinner. It will afford the kids a chance to play together too

Thank you for all you do to support our class!

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson