Second Grade Newsletter 2.10.23

Hello Parents and Guardians! 

Field Trip 

We are excited to announce that the second graders will get to go on a field trip to The Living Pioneer History Museum on Friday, March 3rd! This compliments our unit on Westward Expansion. Students will get to watch a Western Show, pan for gold, and explore the outdoor museum grounds. This is such a fun and exciting field trip for all of us!  We will be leaving school at 8:30am, spending most of the school day at the museum, eat lunch on the museum grounds, and arrive back at school around 2:30pm.   

 

If you are willing to bring a cooler and ice, please let your teacher know! 

 

Please see below for the link to sign up to chaperon. This will go live on Feb. 10th at 7pm. We ask that you only sign up if you or a member of your family has not already chaperoned a field trip this year for second grade. Thank you for your understanding! 

Chaperon Link

 

Important Dates:

Tuesday, Feb. 14: Great Hearts Day

Monday, Feb. 20: President's Day (No School/R&R Weekend)

Tuesday, Feb. 28: Human Body Science Test (Study Guide will be sent home on 2/21) 

Friday, March 3: Field Trip to the Pioneer Museum

 

Conversation Prompts:

Name two ways Americans moved west (by carriage, walking, flatboats, keel boats)

What happens to our food after it reaches the stomach? (Food moves into the small intestine where it passes through villi walls into the bloodstream) 

In Little House in the Big Woods, what is a sugar snow? (A late snow that prevents the trees from budding, allowing more sap collection to make extra maple sugar)

 

Academics: 

Grammar: Scholars received their next poem for recitations, "The Land of Counterpane" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Students will learn how to write a friendly letter and will write one to a classmate for Great Hearts Day. We will use excerpts from Little Women for our writing exercises.

Math: Students will begin learning about multiplication as repeated addition or skip counting. 

 History: We will continue our unit on the Westward Expansion with learning about the invention of the steamboat, identifying important land features American used on their journey west, and explaining what the California Gold Rush was. 

Literature: Our reading of Little House in the Big Woods continues with emphasis on citing textual evidence. Students will learn about the dance at Grandpa’s and discover what Laura saw on her first trip to town. Please consider signing up to volunteer for reading groups using the links on the sidebar.

Science: In Science, we will finish our unit on the Digestive System, learn about the Excretory System, and complete a study guide for the Human Body test.

Spalding: Next week, we will begin writing the alphabet in cursive. For homework, scholars will practice cursive letters along with spelling words for the week. Please have your child write each cursive letter three times.

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Warm Regards, 

The 2nd Grade Team