Monday, December 1, 2025

Quarter 2 Week 7

Hello Second Grade Families,

We hope you had a great week of relaxing and spending time with your family. We are excited to continue strong for these next three of school before winter break. Please make sure that you are looking at due dates as there are many things happening here soon.

Ancient Greek Celebration
Our celebration will take place on Tuesday, December 16th. The sign-up link for donations was sent out on Thursday, November 20th. Thank you for your generosity! 
Please sent non-perishable items in by Monday, December 15th.
Perishable food must be delivered the day of the celebration, Tuesday, December 16th.


Independent Study Projects:
Packets will go home on Wednesday, December 3rd. At the top of the packet, your scholar's assigned historical figure will be written. Please read through the packet, and have the project fully completed by Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, to be presented in front of the class. This is the day we return from Winter Break as will count as a test grade.

2nd Round of Parent-Teacher Conferences:
GHNO will send out sign-up links for our second round of parent-teacher conferences on 12/4/25. Conferences on Wednesday will exclusively be offered via zoom. Conferences on Thursday and Friday will exclusively be in-person which we highly encourage. Zoom links will be sent out later, via email to the applicable families. This will take places at the end on independent study week  from Jan. 7-8 (Wed.-Fri.).

Content Corner This Week:
Math - 
Unit: Subtraction
We will be learning the why behind renaming and looking at 3 different strategies to help us understand the foundations of subtraction. We will also be looking out how we can use a number line to help count backwards and forwards when subtracting.

They will be using a hands on approach with using base-ten blocks during each days lesson.

Check Up 3.1 Review sent home on Wednesday, December 3rd.
(TWO DAYS TO STUDY)

Check Up 3.1 on Friday, December 4th.

Videos were sent home on the weekly blog email if you need help!
Please check agendas/red folders for homework when assigned.

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


Spelling Words: 
picture, pitcher, pitch, money, ready, omit, anyway, eight, breakfast, chance, climb, coffee, color, contains, daily, day, eagle, fancy, fly, forest, freeze, gentle, grow, holes, hotel, iron, living, live, monkey, myself
(30 words)

Spelling Test on Friday! 
Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework 
Monday-Thursday.
It is located inside their red folder.

Grammar - 
Scholars will be learning how to identify prepositions. They will be looking at different example sentences and looking at how to find these prepositions.

Prepositions: a joining word, it joins the noun to the rest of the sentence
Object of the Preposition: always comes after the prepositions and answers


History - 
Unit: Ancient Greece
Scholars will be learning about the Persian Wars, Olympic games, the great thinkers, the Trojan War and Alexander the Great.

Science -
Unit: Exploring Land and Water
Students over the next few weeks will be taking an adventure across the United States to visit different natural parks and visit land formations that can be found there! This week we will be exploring Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park.


Literature -
Unit: Greek Myths
Students will be reading about Deadelus and Hercules and his adventures.

Reading Log-
Each day, students are reading a book from their home library for a minimum of 20 minutes. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult.

Each day please log:
1. The title of the book from home.

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

3. Parent initials confirming minutes read. 

Please make sure you scholar is reading each night and this log is filled out and turned in on MONDAY.

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Dec. 3rd: Independent Study Projects Go Home
  • Dec. 3rd: MAP Testing - Reading
  • Dec. 4th: MAP Testing - Math
  • Dec. 9th: Classroom Spelling Bee (List were sent home before break, if you need another copy please email your scholars teacher.)
  • Dec. 16th: Ancient Greece Celebration at 1:30-3:00.
  • Dec. 22- Jan. 9: Winter Break
  • Jan. 7th-9th: Parent-Teacher Conferences
  • Jan. 12th: Independent Study Projects Due
Thank you for your support this week!

Warm Regards,
2nd Grade Team

Monday, November 17, 2025

Quarter 2 Week 6

Hello Second Grade Families,

We have a busy two months ahead of us, so please be sure to read through the blog thoroughly and make note of any important dates. We hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving, and we are so thankful for each of you and for our partnership with your family!

Content Corner This Week:

Math - 
Scholars this week we will be starting our next unit covering Subtraction. We will be learning the why behind renaming and looking at 3 different strategies to help us understand the foundations of subtraction.

They will be using a hands on approach with using base-ten blocks during each days lesson.

Videos were sent home on the weekly blog email if you need help!

Please check agendas/red folders for homework when assigned.

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


Spelling Words: 
took, again, inform, both, heart, month, children, child, build, built, understand, follow, charge, member, case, while, also, return, office, great, Miss, miss, who, died, die, changing, change, few, pleasant, please
(30 words)

Spelling Test on Friday! 
Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework 
Monday-Thursday.
It is located inside their red folder.

Grammar - 
Scholars will be learning how to identify prepositions. They will be looking at different example sentences and looking at how to find these prepositions.

Prepositions: a joining word, it joins the noun to the rest of the sentence
Object of the Preposition: always comes after the prepositions and answers


History - 
Unit: Ancient Greece
Scholars will be learning how Sparta and Athens were sometimes enemies. Students will compare the lives of the children and defend their thoughts on which city-state they would rather live in during this time period.

Science -
Unit: Exploring Land and Water
Students over the next few weeks will be taking an adventure across the United States to visit different natural parks and visit land formations that can be found there! This week will be looking at Mount Rushmore and the effects that water and ice as on it. Then we will visit Yellowstone and National Glacier Park.


Literature -
We will be starting our unit on Greek Myths. This ties in perfectly with the Ancient Greece unit in history right now.

Prometheus and Pandora, Demeter and Persephone, Arachne the Weaver, Theseus and the Minotaur


Reading Log-
Each day, students are reading a book from their home library for a minimum of 20 minutes. At home, students will read this book aloud to an adult.

Each day please log:
1. The title of the book from home.

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

3. Parent initials confirming minutes read. 

Please make sure you scholar is reading each night and this log is filled out and turned in on Thursday.

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Nov. 18: 2nd Grade Grandparents Morning 9:00-10:20am
  • Nov. 21: Early Release / Spirit Day
  • Nov. 24-28: Thanksgiving Break
  • Dec. 22- Jan. 9: Winter Break
Thank you for your support this week!

Warm Regards,
2nd Grade Team

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