2nd Grade Newsletter

Week 26 - March, 9 2023

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Coming up . . .

3/9 - Rescheduled Open House - Begins @ 5:30

3/9 - Report Cards posted to Focus

3/10 - Spirit Assembly

3/13-17 - Spring Break

4/4-5 - MAP Testing

4/7 - NO School

4/10-11 We DO have school now - weather make-up days

4/28 - Multicultural Day

Bathroom System

We can use your help! Unfortunately, there have been several issues with students using the bathroom for things other than its intended purpose.

Therefore, Mrs. Allen has asked us to have a system of only 1 boy and 1 girl in 2nd Grade in the restroom at a time (not 1 per class). We're hoping that this will cause the problems to cease.

Here's where we need your help. Please review with your student the appropriate ways to use the restroom, the expectation that the bathroom is only for what it's designed for, that it is not a place to get out of doing work and should not be vandalized in any way.

Thank you!

Encouraging Notes

You can use these or one of your own!

In preparation for Multicultural Day, 2nd Grade is looking for artifacts for the following countries. Please let us know if you or someone you know has any personal experiences or artifacts to share. Thanks! Barreiro- Fiji 🇫🇯 Garner- New Zealand 🇳🇿 Gutierrez- Australia 🇦🇺 Semancik- Papau New Guinea 🇬🇳

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Reading

Word Work/Phonics

• Vowel Teams ou, ow

• Diphthongs oy, oi

HFW

• boys, brown, found, house, listen, oil, point, sound, town, voice

Spelling

Vowel Teams ou, ow

• Basic Words: brown, cow, down, flower, found, ground, house, loud, mouse, pound, shout, town

• Review Words: boost, grew, spoon, threw

• Challenge Words: pounce, towel

Concepts:

Informational text
Text features - create an All About Me Text Features Project
Locating information in text to prove answers

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Writing

We are continuing to research storms and natural disasters for informational text.

Students are using their research to create a graphic story or realistic fiction story.

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Math

Customary vs. Metric Measurement

All About Me Text Features Project

We are working on an All About Me Text Features Project! Here are the guidelines below. Students are NOT required to work on this as homework or over spring break but in case they want to, they can.