Please send your child with two healthy (nut free) snacks. They may want a  morning and afternoon snack. 

Students go to PE every day.  Please make sure they are wearing (or have in their backpack) a good pair of closed toe shoes (sneakers).

Ask your child:

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Ask your child to tell you what genre means? These are the categories we organize books by.  Then ask them to identify the genre of the book they are currently reading at home. Remember students are expected to read 20 minutes a night in 2nd grade.

This past week we read a very entertaining story called Spoon, which teaches the importance of embracing one's individuality. Ask your child to tell you more about it. Here are some guiding questions. (1) How did Spoon feel at the beginning and why? (2) Who were 3 of the characters in the book and what were they good at?  (3) And finally, how did Spoon's feelings change at the end and why? 

Next week students will receive their first spelling list, learn to identify external and internal character traits and the importance of creating mental images when we read. They will also continue writing their personal narratives about a time they helped someone in their community.

Ask your child:  

Show me the number 325 in standard form, expanded form and picture form.  

Our fabulous mathematicians practiced reading number lines and hundred charts,  worked with all the forms of a number :  standard, expanded, pictorial, & place, place & avalue, and  determined if a number was odd or even.  They worked hard on the I-Ready assessment in math, and we are so proud of them.  

Next week, they will continue to  work on  math fluency using Fluency Flight in I-Ready,  decomposing numbers,  and comparing numbers with the  < and > symbols.   It may be a short week, but we are going to be busy, busy , busy! 

Science

Ask your child: 

What 3 physical properties did we learn about this week to use to classify matter?

(hint: flexibility, texture & temperature)

This week, students will learn that all materials are made of matter and  that scientists use physical properties to classify objects. We will focus on texture, flexibility and temperature. Students will complete our first lab where they observe the physical properties of water, foil and plates and learn how to use scientific vocabulary in their observations.  Next week, we will continue our four week unit on matter by identify matter as a solid or a liquid. 

Social Studies

Ask your child: 

What are the characteristics of a good citizen?

Next week, we will identify characteristics of good citizenship, including truthfulness, justice, equality, respect, responsibility, and participation in government.

Students will explore these topics using our weekly studies weekly newspaper and discuss the importance of conflict resolution and learn strategies for how to work through conflict at school in the classrooms, during specials, at recess and more.