Hello 2B Families,
REMINDERS
Tuesday is Picture Day.
Grandparents Day is Friday!
Have fun at the Daddy Daughter Dance!
NOTIFICATIONS
Your child is coming home this weekend with a special Chapter Summary Assignment. He or she will be rereading a part of Charlotte's Web and then using a familiar graphic organizer to take notes and then crafting a brief one or two sentence summary of the assigned passage. This is something we have been doing in class and your child should know what to do. Underscore "they should know what to do." I hope you are impressed with how well your child is able to craft sentences to retell what they have read. This is an important skill, and this is an important assignment. Students will be presenting their work during a special Summary Reading of Charlotte's Web this next week! Beforehand, we will be revising and editing these summaries in class this next week, but we can only do that if students have come prepared to revise and edit. Thanks for all you do to help your child be successful!
Here is our week:
LITERATURE
We have finished reading Charlotte’s Web. This week students participate in a friendship seminar. We will discuss what it means to be a true friend. Each child in class, has been assigned a chapter or passage from the book to summarize in one or two sentences. Students will do a chapter summary reading of the book! Please see the information above. On Wednesday, we will watch the film version of Charlotte’s Web and snack on popcorn to celebrate the end of the book! Our next literature selection is The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Please send your child’s copy of this book to school this week, so it is handy next week.
SPELLING
There are 30 spelling words this week. On Monday, students spell watch, dash, fell, fight, buy, by, stopping, stop, walk, talk, and chalk. On Tuesday, students spell grant, soap, news, new, small, smaller, smallest, war, and summer. On Wednesday, students spell above, express, turn, lesson, half, father, anything, table, high, and June.
POETRY
Recitations for “Something Told the Wild Geese” continue into this week. We begin a new poem, “Merry Autumn Days” by Charles Dickens. We focus on the first half of stanza one this week. Students should be prepared to recite by October 29th.
WRITING
We have two copywork sentences from Charlotte’s Web this week. There are so many memorable lines in this book! We will study a few of these and practice using proper capitalization and punctuation and transcribing lengthy sentences.
GRAMMAR
Your child will begin to classify sentences this week. Classifying is naming and labeling each word in a sentence according to its part of speech and grammatical structure. This is a big deal for your second grader! Students will use these skills throughout their Arete career.
HISTORY Next week we are continuing our study of ancient India. Your child will learn a Jataka tale, a story Buddha told that taught people how to live and included a moral. We will also learn about King Asoka and how he influenced the spread of Buddhism in India.
SCIENCE
We are wrapping up our life cycle unit with the study of the plant life cycle. We will be growing and studying lima beans for the next couple of weeks. After Fall break, we will observe the butterfly life cycle in person as well!
MATHEMATICS
This week we will be diving into our renaming "(borrowing" for those of us who grew up with that term) chapter! Check thoroughly over your child's homework, and remind them to draw place value charts. The smallest of items can be manipulatives (or incentives..skittles, marshmallows, etc.).
HW:
Monday, 2.4 B Quiz
Tuesday, Mental Math 9
Wednesday, Workbook Exercise 14 (Pg. 57-58)
Thursday, Workbook Exercise 15 (Pg. 59-60)
Friday, Practice Subtraction Math Facts
Have a beautiful week!
Mrs. Dill
REMINDERS
Tuesday is Picture Day.
Grandparents Day is Friday!
Have fun at the Daddy Daughter Dance!
NOTIFICATIONS
Your child is coming home this weekend with a special Chapter Summary Assignment. He or she will be rereading a part of Charlotte's Web and then using a familiar graphic organizer to take notes and then crafting a brief one or two sentence summary of the assigned passage. This is something we have been doing in class and your child should know what to do. Underscore "they should know what to do." I hope you are impressed with how well your child is able to craft sentences to retell what they have read. This is an important skill, and this is an important assignment. Students will be presenting their work during a special Summary Reading of Charlotte's Web this next week! Beforehand, we will be revising and editing these summaries in class this next week, but we can only do that if students have come prepared to revise and edit. Thanks for all you do to help your child be successful!
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| Your child is choosing one of these graphic organizers to use to help them write. Most students should choose this first one. |
LITERATURE
We have finished reading Charlotte’s Web. This week students participate in a friendship seminar. We will discuss what it means to be a true friend. Each child in class, has been assigned a chapter or passage from the book to summarize in one or two sentences. Students will do a chapter summary reading of the book! Please see the information above. On Wednesday, we will watch the film version of Charlotte’s Web and snack on popcorn to celebrate the end of the book! Our next literature selection is The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Please send your child’s copy of this book to school this week, so it is handy next week.
SPELLING
There are 30 spelling words this week. On Monday, students spell watch, dash, fell, fight, buy, by, stopping, stop, walk, talk, and chalk. On Tuesday, students spell grant, soap, news, new, small, smaller, smallest, war, and summer. On Wednesday, students spell above, express, turn, lesson, half, father, anything, table, high, and June.
POETRY
Recitations for “Something Told the Wild Geese” continue into this week. We begin a new poem, “Merry Autumn Days” by Charles Dickens. We focus on the first half of stanza one this week. Students should be prepared to recite by October 29th.
WRITING
We have two copywork sentences from Charlotte’s Web this week. There are so many memorable lines in this book! We will study a few of these and practice using proper capitalization and punctuation and transcribing lengthy sentences.
GRAMMAR
Your child will begin to classify sentences this week. Classifying is naming and labeling each word in a sentence according to its part of speech and grammatical structure. This is a big deal for your second grader! Students will use these skills throughout their Arete career.
HISTORY Next week we are continuing our study of ancient India. Your child will learn a Jataka tale, a story Buddha told that taught people how to live and included a moral. We will also learn about King Asoka and how he influenced the spread of Buddhism in India.
SCIENCE
We are wrapping up our life cycle unit with the study of the plant life cycle. We will be growing and studying lima beans for the next couple of weeks. After Fall break, we will observe the butterfly life cycle in person as well!
MATHEMATICS
This week we will be diving into our renaming "(borrowing" for those of us who grew up with that term) chapter! Check thoroughly over your child's homework, and remind them to draw place value charts. The smallest of items can be manipulatives (or incentives..skittles, marshmallows, etc.).
HW:
Monday, 2.4 B Quiz
Tuesday, Mental Math 9
Wednesday, Workbook Exercise 14 (Pg. 57-58)
Thursday, Workbook Exercise 15 (Pg. 59-60)
Friday, Practice Subtraction Math Facts
Have a beautiful week!
Mrs. Dill
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