Newsletter

This Week in Mrs. Freeland’s Class
Grade 2 – Week 1
August 10 – August 14, 2026

📚 Academics This Week

Spalding

• Students will take a 30-phonogram test on Thursday.

Spelling

• Weeks 1–2 focus on reviewing phonograms, handwriting, and Spalding notebook setup.

• Spelling officially begins Week 3; first list goes home Friday, Week 2.

• Please encourage neat handwriting and proper letter formation.

Reading & Vocabulary

• This week’s story: “The Bundle of Sticks” (from A Flint Holds Fire)

  • A printed copy will be provided—please return it to the sheet protector in the blue homework folder daily.

• Test on Thursday: Includes vocabulary (closed book) and comprehension (open book).

• Vocabulary lists will be sent home Friday—please study daily.

• On all reading tests, students are expected to use correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

• Tip: Class comprehension questions (completed Mon–Tues) will help prepare for the test. Look for corrected copies at home by Wednesday.

Language

• Reviewing parts of speech and the four sentence types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory).

• Keep Daily Grams sheets for study; quizzes begin in Week 5 and occur every other week.

Math (Saxon Lessons 2–5)

• L2: Reading & making bar graphs

• L3: Identifying digits, writing 2-digit numbers

• L4: Telling time to the half hour; estimating time

• L5: Addends, sums, commutative property of addition

Science

• New unit: “Animals Grow and Change”

• Please save all science worksheets to help your child study—tests are not open-book.

Social Studies

• We will begin our first unit soon—updates to come.