Quarter 1 Week 5

Hello Second Grade Families,

Content Corner This Week:

Math - 
Scholars will be exploring and discovering how to identify, count and exchange bills into different values. A great way to think of money is using place value as in hundreds, tens, and ones.

Check Up 1.3 Review - Sent home Thursday, September 10th

Please have your scholar teach you how to do 1 or 2 problems to help them review these concepts. Sign and return the next day.

Check Up 1.3 Assessment - Friday, September 11th

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: better, water, round, cost, price, become, class, horse, care, try, move, delay, pound, behind, around, burn, camp, bear, bare, clear

Spelling Test on Friday! 

Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework 

Monday-Thursday.

It is located inside their red folder.

Grammar - 

This week in grammar we will continue practicing identifying nouns, verbs and adverbs in sentences. We will introduce identifying adjectives and Article adjectives in sentences. We will also learn about the saying “Better late than never”.   We will have a quiz on Thursday over when to use a vs an. We have practiced this skill for 2 weeks now.   Example: Mary had ___ apple. (We say Mary had AN apple because the next word starts with a vowel.)

Example: Mary had ____ lollipop. (We say Mary had A lollipop because the next word starts with a consonant.)

History - 

Science -
Unit: Properties of Matter

This week we are continuing to learn about properties of matter. We will be doing a scavenger hunt on Wednesday and a quiz on Friday.

Literature -

This week we will reading chapters 5-7 of Charlotte's Web

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 this FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11.

Poem -
"Where Go the Boats" by Robert Louis Stevenson
DUE: SEPTEMBER 28th
Please help your child practice nightly. They are required to speak the title, author and poem from memory in front of their classmates.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Sept 11: 9/11 Ceremony
• Sept 11: FULL DAY FRIDAY
• Sept 16: Lower School Student Picture Day
• Sept 19: Early Release
• Sept 23-24: The Big Give (more information to come by email)
• Sept 25: Early Release; Spirit Day Friday
• Sept 28-Oct 2: Homecoming Week (can buy a homecoming mum on the PSO website)
• Oct. 12-14: Parent Teacher Conferences (information to come)

Thank you for your support this week!

Warm Regards,

2nd Grade Team

Quarter 1 Week 4

Hello Second Grade Families,

We are so proud of the wonderful start your scholars have made in second grade. Over the past three weeks, they have worked hard to learn routines, build friendships, and show perseverance in their learning.

Rocket Math:

We will launch Rocket Math this week, a program designed to help students build speed and accuracy with their math facts. Mastering these facts will give students a strong foundation for the more complex math concepts we'll be tackling this year. We encourage you to celebrate your child's progress at home as they "blast off" with Rocket Math! Each night have them practice along the outside and then set a 1-minute timer for them to complete the inside with an expo marker. Scholars will bring what they completed during that time to school the next day with the expo still on it to show they practiced the night before. If you need an expo marker for at home please contact your scholars teacher and one will be sent home.

Content Corner This Week:

Math - 
Scholars will be finding missing numbers on a given number line by finding the pattern of skip counting. They will be reviewing how to compare 2 or more numbers and putting them in order. They will be learning to recognize and name bills.

Check Up 1.2 Review - Sent home Tuesday, September 1st

Please have your scholar teach you how to do 1 or 2 problems to help them review these concepts. Sign and return the next day.

Check Up 1.2 Assessment - Wednesday, September 2nd 

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: would, could, should, any, many, city, only, where, week, weak, first, sent, cent, seem, mile, even, without, afternoon, Friday, wife, hour, our, state, July, head, story, open, short, lady, reach

Spelling Test on Friday! 

Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework 

Tuesday-Thursday.

It is located inside their red folder.

Grammar - 
This week in grammar/writing we will be continuing learning how to write summaries. We will also be learning about adverbs and when to use a or an. There will be a quiz on Friday over adverbs and a or an. 

History - 
Unit: Ancient India

Learning about the mystery of the Indus Valley civilization and the religion of Hinduism.

Geography of the Americas Unit Test - Tuesday, September 1st

Science -
Unit: Properties of Matter

They we discovering different ways to measure and classify matter within an experiment.

Literature -
This week in Literature we will be starting Charlotte's Web chapters 1-4.

Please bring Charlotte's Web as soon as possible.

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 the following FRIDAY, September 4.

Poem -
"The Cow" by Robert Louis Stevenson
DUE: SEPTEMBER 4TH
Please help your child practice nightly. They are required to speak the title, author and poem from memory in front of their classmates.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Sept 4: Early Release
• Sept 7: Labor Day, NO SCHOOL
• Sept 11: FULL DAY Friday
• Sept 16: Lower School Student Picture Day
• Sept 18: Early Release
• Sept 23-24: The Big Give (more information to come by email)
• Sept 21-25: Homecoming Week (can buy a homecoming mum on the PSO website)
• Sept 25: Early Release

Thank you for your support this week!

Warm Regards,

2nd Grade Team