Friday, May 12, 2023

Second Grade Newsletter 5.12.23

Hello Parents and Guardians!

Please check your scholar’s backpack each evening as they will start to bring home books and supplies that they will not need at school anymore. Please remove the items and keep them at home.

If you know your scholar will be leaving early during the school day, please email your scholar’s teacher a day in advance so that they can make sure your scholar is prepared to leave at the time you need them and any work they will miss will be given to them. Please keep in mind that we do not have a lot of time left to make up unfinished work and missed assessments and it’s difficult to stop the whole class when teaching to have a scholar pack up. Thank you. 

We have an exciting announcement to make! On Tuesday, the 16th, we will be hosting our highly anticipated End of the Year Assembly. This event is where we will announce the Kingdom Winner, we will also be unveiling our New Guardians for the upcoming academic year of 23-24. We invite all our scholars to participate by wearing the Kingdom Shirt on that day. Alternatively, they can wear any shirt in their Kingdom color (please avoid pop culture references). The rest of the uniform should remain as usual. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude for your support throughout this year's Kingdoms program. 

Dates

May 16 – Wear Kingdom color shirt

May 17 - Grammar Assessment 

May 17 - Fine Arts Night and Music Concert (2nd grade concert at 5:30. Drop                     off at classroom at 5:15.)

May 19 - Science Magnetism Assessment 

May 23-26 - Half Days 

Conversation Starters: 

  • What does “attract” mean? What does “repel” mean? 
  • What did Susan B. Anthony fight for? 
  • What was Charlotte’s “magnum opus”? 
  • What is another way to say 2:45?
  • Add an adverb to this sentence: The puppy played.

Upcoming Academics: 

Math: Students will continue to review and assess previous units focusing on time, data analysis, and money. We’re going to squeeze in a few lessons on fractions before we break for summer. There won’t be homework or a test for that unit – just exploration of the concepts during class.

Science: Students will bring home a green magnetism study guide on Monday. Please use this to help your student review before the test on Friday. We will also compare the strengths of magnets using compasses.

History: Scholars will continue to learn about Civil Rights Leaders such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. They will understand how segregation was a part of daily life in the U.S. and understand the challenges Jackie Robinson faced. 

Spalding: We will have our last Spalding words of the year. All words will be written in cursive and scholars will be given a letter formation grade for the cursive writing. There will be no Spalding homework or new words given on Wednesday, May 17th, due to the Spring Concert.

Grammar: Students brought home a lavender grammar review page. They will demonstrate their comprehension of parts of speech and punctuation on an end of the year grammar assessment. Please use this review guide to help your student review before the test on Wednesday, May 17th.

Literature: Students will finish reading Charlotte’s Web and create a medal for Charlotte or Wilbur, compose a eulogy for Charlotte, and identify the hope in the final chapter of the story

Have a terrific weekend! 

Warm Regards, 
The Second Grade Team 

 

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