Monday, October 28, 2024

Quarter 2 Week 3

 Monday, October 28

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to honor their family members who have served in the military by filling out a short info form and attaching a photo to be displayed in the library on November 11, which is a school day. 

Please note: photos will not be returned so just send in a copy of your veteran's photo. 

Forms will be sent home with students on Monday, October 28th and extra forms can be requested from your teacher or downloaded here. Please return the forms to school by Tuesday, November 5th.

Thank you to all those who have served!

Thank you for all who signed up to volunteer or donate items to our Charlotte's Web Celebration this week!

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: people, ever, held, church, once, one, own, before, know, no, were, where, there, here, dead, leave, early, close (close by), close (close the door), nothing, flower, flour, ground, lead (lead the way), led (he led the way), lead (pencil), such, morning, however, mind

Spelling Test on Friday! 

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

Literature: We will finish Charlotte's Web on Monday. Students need "The Courage of Sarah Noble" on TuesdayPlease email your teacher if you do not have a copy.

Your scholar will be participating in discussions about defining new vocabulary based on text context, answering comprehension questions, and checking their predictions.
 
We are start the next classic-to-keep this week. Please make sure you send a copy to school with your scholar with their name inside so if it gets lost or misplaced we can return it to them.

CLASSIC TO KEEP:
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Due: Tuesday October 29th
Amazon Link / ISBN: 978-0689715402
Please make sure you order the book 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 be writing their first expository paragraph. They will work on a sample paragraph and finish their own rough draft by Friday. We will be sending an editing HW assignment home next week. Please assist your student with spelling and grammatical errors.

Math:

Your scholar will be continuing their journey with renaming by adding a 3-digit and a 2-digit number with renaming in the tens and ones and adding two 3-digit numbers with renaming in the tens and ones. Later in the week, your scholar will be learning how to add three or four 2-digit numbers to find a total.

***Math Homework is written in the agenda. Please review the agenda to make sure students are completing their homework assignments.

Science:
Your scholar will learn about the dependency of animals and plants on each other.
 
Poem:
Something told the Wild Geese By: Rachel Fields
Due: week of November 4th

Help your scholar at home start practicing this poem. They will have to recite the title, authors and poem in-front of their classmates.
 
Important Dates: 

10/31 - 2nd Grade Charlette's Web Literature Celebration

11/01 - Early Release at 1:25 - Run Club!

11/6 - Athletic Field Day (1st and 2nd) - If you purchased a shirt they will be delivered to your scholar on Monday November 4th.

Dress Code for Students for Athletic Field Day:

·    City-State or House shirt

·    Athletic shorts or pants (modest, loose-fitting, in good repair)

·    Athletic shoes

·    Logo-free jackets, sweatshirts, and/or hats (if needed)

·    Sunscreen if needed

Students should not wear:

·    Tank tops, midriff shirts, camisoles, sports bras as outer garments

·    Short-shorts or long, baggy shorts

·    Volleyball spandex shorts unless covered by loose-fitting athletic shorts

·    Sandals, open-toed, or platform shoes


11/22 - Winter Concert: Email sent by school on 10/7

11/25-29 - Thanksgiving Break

12/23-1/3 - Winter Break

1/6/25-1/10/25 - Independent Study Project Week (projects sent home first week of December)