Second Grade Newsletter 1.7.22

 

Second Grade Newsletter 1.7.22

 

Hello Parents!

 

News: 

Second Grade is moving from agendas/planners to a reading log for daily reading practice in preparation for third grade. Each day your child should read aloud for 20 minutes and retell. Then, your child will correctly write the title of the book on the reading log paper. Parents will sign daily the reading log paper (it is a light blue paper and was sent home in your child's yellow folder). The students will turn the reading log in on Friday and receive another for the next week. In order for your child to receive credit for their reading homework, the title, minutes read, and signature are required. Students will continue to write their daily assignments in their agendas/planners. Please reach out to your homeroom teacher with specific questions. We are excited for our second graders to grow in their independence and responsibility!

Important Dates: 

Monday, January 10th: Grammar Quiz

Friday, January 14: Unit 1-5 Cumulative Math Assessment

Monday, January 17th: No School-Civil Rights Day

Conversation Prompts: 

How does 3x10 help you solve 3x9?

Tell me an adjective to describe apple, insect, and book.

When do we use a comma?

Why was life difficult after winning the Revolutionary War?

Tell me a fun fact you learned about an insect during the presentations this week.

Academics: 

Math 

Students will learn how to divide by 2 and 3. They will also learn about remainders and odd and even numbers before we review all concepts such as addition and subtraction with renaming, measurement, multiplication, and division. Students will demonstrate their knowledge on the cumulative assessment Friday. We will then take home our 2A books and begin the 2B textbook and workbook on Tuesday, 1/18, thank you to those families that have already sent them in! All students will also begin subtraction math facts for Rocket Math if they haven't yet. Please look for a new answer packet to come home this week in your child's yellow folder.

 

 

Grammar 

We have been reviewing comma usage, contractions, and adjectives. Students will have a grammar quiz on Monday. We will then learn about direct quotations and write based on passages from The Five Children and It. Students received the poem, "The Hayloft" by Robert Louis Stevenson on Wednesday. The poem in full will be recited the week of Tuesday, 1/18.

 

History 

This week, we have started the foundation for our unit about Making the Constitution.  We discussed what happened when the colonists came home from the war and Shay's Rebellion. Next, we will learn how the colonists united together to form laws which were fair and wrote the constitution we still use today.

Science 

This week students will learn about the scientific method. We will first learn about cells and students will learn that this is the smallest unit of life. They will also discover how a microscope helps us see things and read about its inventor Anton Van Leewenhoek.  

*Parents please note that this week we will read Cells are Us by Dr. Fran Balkwill and there is a brief note on reproduction. The book will teach us this in order to introduce the idea that two cells join to make more cells. We will not be fielding any questions on the topic of reproduction, instead we will inform them that the topic will be covered in fifth grade and leave it to your discretion. 

Literature 

Students will begin their read of the classic, Little House in the Big Woods, on Monday. Thanks to those families that have already sent it in! They meet Pa, Ma, Mary and Laura. They will read about the family’s preparation for winter and how the family survives in the Big Woods. *Reading Groups will begin again,  a sign up will be sent out shortly.