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March 14-18: Spring Break
Friday, March 25th: Math Assessment-Money
Saturday, Match 26th: Medieval Faire
Monday, April 4th: "The Land of Storybooks" Recitations
Conversation Starters:
What food did you make during Literature this week?
What happened in the final chapter of Little House in the Big Woods?
Who was your favorite character? Why?
What science experiment did you do this week? (Hint: Eggs and chicken bones)
Why do you need calcium to keep your body healthy?
How do you make change for $1.50 when paying with a $5 bill?
Why were the bison important to the Plains Indians?
Academics:
Math: Scholars will have an assessment on Money on Friday, March 25th. They will be assessed on identifying, counting, writing in word form, adding, subtracting, and making change. Please practice with real money at home!
Literature: Next quarter, we will continue enjoying the pioneer times and westward expansion by reading some famous American Tall Tales. Students will learn that this is a genre of fictional stories written about real-life folk heroes that features the use of exaggeration and humor! We will read tall tales about John Henry, Johnny Appleseed, and Paul Bunyan this week.
Grammar: Our next poem will be our last Robert Louis Stevenson poem before moving onto historical poetry. Students will study and memorize, "The Land of Storybooks." This will be recited in full the week of April 4th. We will learn our next part of speech the preposition while also continuing to review the adverb, adjective, interjection, pronoun, verb, and noun. Writing will continue with the exercises of narration, copy work, and dictation based on passages from Hans Christian Anderson's The Real Princess.
Science: Next quarter, students will learn about the six simple machines-the lever, ramp, wedge, pulley, inclined plane, and screw. Students will learn about each type and the work they do. They will be asked to find simple machines in their every day life as a project this quarter.
Spalding: Scholars now know how to write all lowercase and uppercase letters in cursive. We will continue to practice connecting letters by writing one spelling word a day in cursive this week. Please have your child practice the daily cursive word's spelling and cursive formation on their homework. They will demonstrate their command of cursive by writing three words in cursive on the first test of the quarter, gradually building to two words a day the week after, then three, etc. until the entire week's spelling list is written in cursive!
History: Moving forward in time, after Westward Expansion in the US, life in the North and South grew differently. Students will learn about the practice of slavery and the differences between the North and South that would eventually lead to a civil war.
As always, please contact your teacher with questions, concerns, or joys!
Warm Regards,
The Second Grade Team
