Quarter 4 Week 6

Hello Second Grade Families,

Reminder: We have this Friday, April 24th off from school.

Content Corner This Week:

Math - 
Unit: Data (Graphs)

We will be starting our next unit on Data (Graphs). Scholars will be introduced and interpret data given with picture graphs, bar graphs, tally charts, and line plots.

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

Please check agendas/red folders for homework when assigned.

Spalding - 

ALL OF SPALDING WILL BE IN CURSIVE!

Phonograms: 

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

Spalding Phonogram Cards Link

Spelling Words: 

none, knew, know, remain, direction, direct, appear, liberty, enough, fact, board, September, station, attend, public, music, picnic, picnicking, friends, friend

(20 words)

Spelling Test on THURSDAY! 

Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework 

Monday-Wednesday.

It is located inside their red folder.

Grammar - 

Scholars will be continuing to identify and label parts of speech within given sentences.

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

Possessive Pronouns: a pronoun that replaces a possessive noun

Possessive Noun: name of a person, place or thing that owns something

History - 

Unit: Civil Rights Leaders

Scholars will be starting our next unit talking about different Civil Rights Leaders. 

This week: Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt

Science -
Unit: Resources (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) / Moon Phases

Scholars will exploring and learning about the conversation of resources. They will also begin learning about the different moon phases

Recycle Project sent home on Monday, April 13th

DUE: Thursday, May 7th

Natural Resources Study Guide sent home on Thursday, April 23th

Natural Resources Unit Test on 

Literature -

Unit: The Boxcar Children

Students will be build reading comprehension be defining new vocabulary based on context, answering comprehension questions, and checking their predictions.

Next Classic Need

Classic to Keep NEEDED

The Cricket in Times Square by: George Selden

**PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE REVISED EDITION**

Correct version has a statement at the bottom 

"FORWARD AND UPDATES BY STACEY LEE"

ISBN: 978-0374390402 / Amazon Link 

Please make sure you get a copy with this ISBN.

Please write your scholars name inside so if it gets misplaced it can be easily returned to them!

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!!

Poem -
"Harriet Tubman" By: Eloise Greenfield
DUE: April 20th
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

• April 20th: Harriet Tubman Poem DUE
• April 24 (FRIDAY): No School (Holiday)
• May 1st: Early Release / Lower School Spring Concert
• May 6th: MAP Reading Assessment
• May 7th: MAP Math Assessment
• May 8th: Early Release
• May 15th: Early Release
• May 21st: Early Release
• May 22nd: Early Release/Spirit Day/Last Day of School

Thank you for your support this week!

Warm Regards,

2nd Grade Team

Quarter 4 Week 5

Hello Second Grade Families,

Snapshot of our Uniform Guidelines:

• Shoes: Shoes are all white or all black or the Navy and White "Keds School Days" Shoes.
• Socks:  All white or navy, free of logos and must be visible
• Shorts/Pants: Navy Blue for K-4 and Khaki for 5-6.
• Shirts: GH Shirt that is sky blue, or white and tucked-in appropriately.
• Boy's Hair: MUST be above ear, neck and brows. Those who choose to have longer hair MUST style it in such a way the hair MUST be pulled back neatly and smoothly with a hair band (Possibly with hair gel) in a bun or ponytail.
• Girl's Hair: Hair should be neatly combed or styled. Neat bows, barrettes, headbands, and hair ties are permissible so long as they coordinate with the uniform. Hair must be natural-looking and conservative in its color and cut (no bleaching or unnatural streaking/highlighting, no artificial jet-black coloring, and no unnatural colors).
• Jewelry: No rings, bracelets, or fitbits. Simple analog watch is allowed.
• Outerwear: Only GH sweaters and quarter zip pullovers inside the building!

Content Corner This Week:

Math - 
Unit: Time 

We will be continuing our unit covering time. They will be learning how to read analog clocks to the hour, to the 5 minutes, and to the minute, an hour past and an hour to, am and pm.

Chapter 7 Review sent home on Thursday, April 16th

Chapter 7 Unit Test on Friday, April 17th

They will be using a hands on approach with using analog clocks during each days lesson.

Analog Clocks

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

Please check agendas/red folders for homework when assigned.

Spalding - 

ALL OF SPALDING WILL BE IN CURSIVE!

Phonograms: 

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

Spalding Phonogram Cards Link

Spelling Words: 

forty, fourteen, fourth, four, population, proper, judge, weather, whether, worth, contain, figure, sudden, instead, throw, threw, personal, everything, rate, chief, perfect, second, slide, farther, duty, intend, company, quite, quit, quiet

(30 words)

Spelling Test on Friday! 

Don't forget your scholar has Spalding homework 

Tuesday-Thursday.

It is located inside their red folder.

Grammar - 

Scholars will begin reflecting and writing an expository paragraph about their two favorite animals. They will be creating an outline, rough draft and a final draft.

Editing Checklist Homework sent home on Tuesday, April 14th

(DUE: Wednesday, April 15th)

History - 

Unit: Civil Rights Leaders

Scholars will be starting our next unit talking about different Civil Rights Leaders. 

This week: Susan B. Anthony

Ancestor Project Due April 16th

Immigration Study Guide sent home on Wednesday, April 8th

Immigration Unit Test on Friday, April 17th

Science -
Unit: Resources (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) / Moon Phases

Scholars will exploring and learning about the conversation of resources. They will also begin learning about the different moon phases

Recycle Project sent home on Monday, April 13th

DUE: Thursday, May 7th

Human Body Study Guide sent home on Thursday, April 9th

Human Body Unit Test on Tuesday, April 14th

Literature -

Unit: The Boxcar Children

Students will be build reading comprehension be defining new vocabulary based on context, answering comprehension questions, and checking their predictions.

Next Classic Need

The Boxcar Children By: Gertrude Warner

Due: March 30th

ISBN: 978-0807508527

Amazon Link / Barnes & Noble

Please write your scholars name inside so if it gets misplaced it can be easily returned to them!

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!!

Poem -
"Harriet Tubman" By: Eloise Greenfield
DUE: April 20th
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

• April 18th: GHNO Fiestaval (4-8pm)
• April 20th: Harriet Tubman Poem DUE
• April 24 (FRIDAY): No School (Holiday)
• May 1st: Early Release / Lower School Spring Concert
• May 5th: MAP Reading Assessment
• May 6th: MAP Math Assessment
• May 8th: Early Release
• May 15th: Early Release
• May 21st: Early Release
• May 22nd: Early Release/Spirit Day/Last Day of School

Thank you for your support this week!

Warm Regards,

2nd Grade Team