Second Grade Newsletter 11.28.22

Second Grade Newsletter 11.28.22

Hello Parents! 

Important Dates:   

Math Unit 3 Assessment: Wednesday, November 30

Ancient Greece History Assessment: Thursday, December 1

Ancient Greece Celebration: Friday, December 2

Winter Concert: Wednesday, December 7

Poem Recitation Due: Monday, December 12

Winter Celebration: Friday, December 16

Many thanks to everyone who donated or volunteered for the Medieval Faire!!

Please consider signing up to donate an item for our Ancient Greece Celebration using the following links. Thank you.

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Conversation Prompts:  

How does addition help you solve a subtraction problem?

What is the contraction for "I would"?

What are 2 jobs that ants do? (Find food, tend eggs, store food, dig tunnels, …)

Persephone ate 6 pomegranate seeds. What did this cause?

Who were the 3 great thinkers of Ancient Greece? (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle)

History 

Scholars will learn who the 3 great thinkers were of Ancient Greece, and they will also learn about Alexander the Great. They will review for the assessment on Thursday, December 1st and enjoy the Greek Celebration this Friday, December 2^nd. 

Science 

This week we will compare solitary insects and social insects. Students will create a writing map and use this to write a paragraph in Grammar. We will also consider harmful insects versus helpful insects.

Literature 

Scholars will hear more Ancient Greek myths while learning about Greek gods and goddesses. We will continue to write short summaries and explore causes and effects and predictions.

Grammar 

Students are showing nice growth with their expressive voices and confidence during poetry recitations. Our next and final  poem for the quarter will be "Bed in Summer" by Robert Louis Stevenson. This week students will write based on passages from Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH. Students will also have a first try at writing an informative paragraph based on our learning in science class about social and solitary insects. In grammar class, students will learn about adjectives which are words that describe nouns and pronouns. 

Math

We will review subtraction concepts before the students complete an assessment on our subtraction unit. Our next unit, will utilize both addition and subtraction as students learn how to solve one and two-step word problems. They will also learn how to visually represent a problem by drawing a bar model. Please continue to support your scholar by practicing basic addition and subtraction facts.