Monday, March 31, 2025

Quarter 4 Week 3

Monday, March 31st 

2nd Grade Field Trip this Thursday, April 3rd to the Natural Bridge Caverns


This week we will be learning:

Spalding:

Phonograms: We work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choosing a few each night to review with your scholar, specifcally those found in the words of the week.

Spelling Words: catch, catcher, black, warm, unless, trophy, voices, voice, began, begin, begun, able, suit, eight, ate, afraid, gone, go, done, do, track, uncle, rather, comfort

Cursive: All Spalding assignments are to be done in cursive!!

Spelling Test on Friday! 

Don't forget your scholar had Spalding homework Monday-Thursday.
It is located inside their red folder.

Literature: 

Your scholar will start our next classic to keep "A Cricket in Time Square" by Garth Williams. Scholars will be identifying setting and character motives (character traits).

CURRENT Classic to Keep
The Boxcar Children by: Gertrude Channer Warner
Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.

Reading Log:

Each day, students will bring home a book of choice from the GHNO classroom library. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult

Each day please log:

 1. The title of the classroom library book read.

 2. The total minutes your student spent reading (20 minutes minimum).

 3. Parent initials confirming minutes read.

Please make sure your scholar is reading and this log is filled out and turned in on Mondays.  

It will be counted as a quiz grade


Grammar:
Your scholar will chorally  respond to the question answer flow along with the class while labeling the parts of speech in a given sentence. They will also be looking at a sentence and seeing if they are able to identify the mistakes of capital letters and end marks.
 
Math:
Your scholar will be finishing our Chapter 5 Unit on Measurement and Length on Tuesday. We will be starting Chapter 6 Unit on Multiplication!! This unit is taught different than normal multiplication in 2nd grade it is taught as repeated addition.

Review sent home: March 31st

Unit Test on: April 1st  

  Please make sure your scholar is completing their math homework nightly when assigned. 
 
 
History:
 
Your scholar be starting their next unit in history over Immigration and Citizenship. They will be learning why people came to America in the first place and what it was like arriving in America. There will be a special project that goes with the unit, please look forward to an email with further information. 
 
The Civil War Study Guide was sent home on Tuesday (3/28) and returned to school Wednesday with a parent signature. 

Review sent home: March 28th

Unit Test on: April 1st 

Science:
Your scholar will starting a new unit on science covering Human Cells and the Digestive System. This week they will be learning about how cells work together, the 4 different types of tissues, and how tissues make up different organs in our body.

FIELD TRIP on Thursday April 3rd

 
Important Dates: 

4/3 - 2nd grade Natural Bridge Caverns Field Trip

4/12 - Fiestaval 4:00-8:00pm (Tickets go on sale March 1st)

4/18 - No school

4/21 - NORMAL SCHOOL DAY

5/2 - No school

5/9 - Spring Concert at Trinity Baptist Church

Monday, March 24, 2025

Quarter 4 Week 2

Monday, March 24th

This week we will be learning:

Spalding:

Phonograms: We are starting to work through all 70 phonograms each week. We recommend choose a few each night to review with your scholar.   

Spelling Words: mixture, nation, mouth, peach, pole, pause, peace, permission, rough, social, society, steel, steal, rope, sign, space, wagon, wheat, window

Cursive: All Spalding assignments are to be done in cursive!!

Spelling Test on Friday! 

Don't forget your scholar had Spalding homework Monday-Thursday.
It is located inside their red folder.

Literature: 

Your scholar will keep reading Little House in the Big Woods by: Laura Ingalls Wilder. They will reinforce main ideas with text evidence, sequence skills, summarize sections within chapters, understand setting through identification of animal tracks, visualize setting, and utilize descriptive language.

Next Classic to Keep Needed: March 31st 
The Boxcar Children by: Gertrude Channer Warner
Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.


Reading Log:

Each day, students will bring home a book of choice from the GHNO classroom library. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult

Each day please log:

 1. The title of the classroom library book read.

 2. The total minutes your student spent reading (20 minutes minimum).

 3. Parent initials confirming minutes read.

Please make sure your scholar is reading and this log is filled out and turned in on Mondays.  

It will be counted as a quiz grade


Grammar:
Your scholar will listen and discuss the story read to them. Then students will write a summary about the story in their own words while using complete sentences with details from the story and referencing comprehension questions for guidance.
 
Math:
 
Your scholar will be continuing Chapter 5 covering length and measurement. They will contuine to learn how to measure items in all units of measurement. They learn how to solve one-step and two-step word problem using bar model with a given word problem.

  Please make sure your scholar is completing their math homework nightly when assigned. 
 
 
History:
 
Your scholar will finish their Civil War Unit. The Study Guide will be sent home on Tuesday and returned to school Wednesday with a parent signature. 

Review sent home: March 28th

Unit Test on: April 1st 


Science:
Your scholar will starting a new unit on science covering Human Cells and the Digestive System. This week they will be learning about how cells work together, the 4 different types of tissues, and how tissues make up different organs in our body.

  

Important Dates: 

3/25 - Deadline to Order Yearbooks GHNO 24-25 Yearbook
    Extras will not be available through the campus or the publisher.

3/28 - Lower School Art Show 5:00-7:00pm

4/3 - 2nd grade Natural Bridge Caverns Field Trip

4/12 - Fiestaval 4:00-8:00pm (Tickets go on sale March 1st)

4/18 - No school

4/21 - NORMAL SCHOOL DAY

5/2 - No school

5/9 - Spring Concert at Trinity Baptist Church