Second Grade News
February 4, 2008
Dear Parents,
What a wonderful Arts Month we had! The children delved into sculpture, painting, and construction. Weren’t the skyscrapers and all the artwork impressive? The dust has settled a bit and we are back to our daily routine, although this month promises to be a busy, fun-filled one. Here is just a general overview of the subject areas we’ll be focusing on in the coming weeks.
Language Arts: We continue to meet in reading groups three times a week and in grammar we are using antonyms/synonyms, adjectives/nouns, going on dictionary word finds (a second grade favorite) and mastering “friendly letter” writing. We are reviewing our poems in class and will become poets ourselves as we continue writing our own poetry.
Math: We have officially started our 2-digit addition unit and will be starting our 2-digit subtraction unit in the next week or two. As always, we encourage you to practice and review number facts to make 2 and 3-digit operations painless. We are enjoying more rotations in math this month, from Money/Time Bingo, to “Rolling Dice” for 2-digit math and Marcy Cook.
Science: On Thursday, February 7, Dr. Finch will be visiting our classroom at 1:45 to share her veterinary knowledge with us as we wrap up our unit on animals. This week the children will give their animal reports. A schedule will be sent home on Tuesday. Thank you all for helping with this project. The props, posters and dioramas are terrific. The final reports should be very interesting. The work the students have completed for the animal unit will be sent home at the end of the week. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday we will have worm observations in class.
Social Studies: We will begin our unit on Native Americans next week.
Important Dates to remember:
Tuesday – Feb. 12 @ 7pm: Poetry Night
Thursday – Feb. 14 @ 11am Special Persons Day. The Second graders have each chosen a “special person” in their life to invite to school on Valentine’s Day. They will be reading a letter to their special person in class. (Invitations will be coming home this week).
Feb. 18 – Feb. 22: President’s Vacation
Thursday – Feb. 28: SB Botanical Gardens Field Trip
Tuesday – March 5: 2nd Grade Play/Musical of “Lifecycles”
Saturday – March 8: Art Auction (Our themed class basket is the “Smart Family.” Please help us to make this basket a success by bringing in anything that might make a family smarter! Some suggestions: maps, games, globes, etc.) A box will be in the classroom for collecting all items until Feb. 28th. Thank you in advance for your help!
April 28 – May 1: Standardized Testing
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Warmly,
Mrs. Roe
Mrs. Ockerman
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