SECOND GRADE
March 14-18
Please remember—if your child is absent, please send back an excuse when they return!
*** Don’t forget about $3.00 for the Easter party and 1 dozen plastic eggs filled with toys, erasers, etc (NO FOOD) ***
SCIENCE: Chapter 3; Math in Science, Review for test, TEST TUESDAY, Chapter 4- How Living Things Grow and Change; Vocabulary, Lesson 1- How do sea turtles grow and change?, Lesson 2- What is the life cycle of a dragonfly?
HEALTH: Review, TEST WEDNESDAY
READING: “Dex: The Heart of a Hero,” pages 167-189
Target Vocabulary: depended, sore, sprang, studied, gazing, hero, exercise, overlooked
High-Frequency Words: I’ve, begins, being, flower, ground, laugh, ready, stood, tall, very
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast and Figurative Language
Target Strategy: Monitor/ Clarify
Vocabulary Strategies: Prefix over-
READING TEST FRIDAY! ** This will be the last Reading Test I will be reading orally. Students should be reading the Reading story independently orally at home every night. Be prepared that your child’s reading test grades may not be as good, but it will get better.
SPELLING: Words with or, ore: horn, story, fork, score, store, corn, morning, shore, short, born, tore, forget, for, more, report
SPELLING TEST FRIDAY!
Grammar: Commas in a Series, NO Grammar Test
MATH: 9.1- Measuring with Yards and Meters, 9.2- Linear Measures, 9.3- Fractional Units of Length, 9.4- Perimeter
UPCOMING EVENTS:
* Please remember to read and sign your child’s planner every night. Also, please check Engrade to monitor your child’s grades and educational progress (log-in information is located in the front of your child’s planner).
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
*** Don’t forget about $3.00 for the Easter party and 1 dozen plastic eggs filled with toys, erasers, etc (NO FOOD) ***
SCIENCE: Chapter 3; Math in Science, Review for test, TEST TUESDAY, Chapter 4- How Living Things Grow and Change; Vocabulary, Lesson 1- How do sea turtles grow and change?, Lesson 2- What is the life cycle of a dragonfly?
HEALTH: Review, TEST WEDNESDAY
READING: “Dex: The Heart of a Hero,” pages 167-189
Target Vocabulary: depended, sore, sprang, studied, gazing, hero, exercise, overlooked
High-Frequency Words: I’ve, begins, being, flower, ground, laugh, ready, stood, tall, very
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast and Figurative Language
Target Strategy: Monitor/ Clarify
Vocabulary Strategies: Prefix over-
READING TEST FRIDAY! ** This will be the last Reading Test I will be reading orally. Students should be reading the Reading story independently orally at home every night. Be prepared that your child’s reading test grades may not be as good, but it will get better.
SPELLING: Words with or, ore: horn, story, fork, score, store, corn, morning, shore, short, born, tore, forget, for, more, report
SPELLING TEST FRIDAY!
Grammar: Commas in a Series, NO Grammar Test
MATH: 9.1- Measuring with Yards and Meters, 9.2- Linear Measures, 9.3- Fractional Units of Length, 9.4- Perimeter
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- Thursday, March 24- Easter Party/Egg Hunt- 2:00-3:00 PM
- Friday, March 25- 3-Hour Early Dismissal/Faculty Senate
- Monday, March 28- Friday, April 1- Spring Break- NO SCHOOL
- Every Thursday - School Store
- Every Friday- Hat Day- Wear your hat for 50¢
* Please remember to read and sign your child’s planner every night. Also, please check Engrade to monitor your child’s grades and educational progress (log-in information is located in the front of your child’s planner).
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt