Thank you for attending Curriculum Night on Wednesday! It was wonderful getting a chance to meet with you and talk about the exciting things in store this year for your young scholars. Mrs. Smith and I are grateful for you taking time out of your evening schedule to attend. We will be sure to answer your questions and hopefully address any concerns you have throughout the year. Here is the presentation from Curriculum Night (in case you missed it). For those who could not make it, I sent home the information in your child's homework folder.
***Please don't forget to send in a spiral notebook for French class.***
A note about MAP testing:
Today your children took a practice MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) test on a laptop. Please click here to learn more. The goal in 2nd grade is to spend time learning and troubleshooting the test. We want to ensure that our students are well prepared academically and are familiar with computer assessments for the AZMerit they will take in 3rd grade. We will be taking the real MAP test on Thursday. Please tell your children not to worry and just do their best on their test! Mrs. Smith and I will be available to assist when needed.
We celebrated two more birthdays this week!
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| Happy Birthday Leilani! 8/16 |
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| Happy Birthday Alise! 8/20 |
Curriculum Updates for Next Week:
Literature: We will continue reading Charlotte's Web this week. In chapters 7-9 we will continue to watch Wilbur and Charlotte's friendship unfold. We will learn the phrase "back to the drawing board" as Wilbur tries and fails to spin a web.
Poetry: We will practice Bed in Summer stanzas 1-3 this week, and the students will be reciting the poem for the class next week!
Spalding: We will continue with 10 words each day, and a 30 word spelling test on Friday. Please continue to closely monitor your child's handwriting!
Monday: first, sent, cent, mile, seem, even, without, afternoon, Friday, hour
Tuesday: our, wife, state, July, head, story, open, short, lady, reach
Wednesday: better, water, round, cost, price, become, class, horse, care, try
Grammar: We will add a new jingle to our list! The verb jingle! We will also learn capitalization and punctuation rules and apply them to our writing. Ask your child to sing the SENTENCE jingle they learned!
Math: We will review unit 1 (numbers to 1000) Monday and Tuesday and test over unit one on Wednesday, Tuesday nights homework will provide wonderful practice for Wednesday’s test. We will review comparing and ordering numbers, place value, writing numbers in various forms and symbols ( <, >, =). Then we will jump into unit 2! In unit 2 we will learn strategies for mental math using addition and subtraction!
I would love to purchase a classroom set of Base 10 Blocks or Place Value Disks for the students to use at their desks. Please let me know if you'd be interested in helping donate these items as we may need a group of parents to help :-).
Science: Your young scientists will continue learning about the seasons of the year. Students will to be able identify characteristics of each season and explore how plants, animals, and humans are affected. We will review how the seasons change by the earth's tilt and its revolution around the sun (ask your young scholar about the demonstration we did with a globe and a lamp). Mrs. Smith helped us understand it better...
Grammar: We will add a new jingle to our list! The verb jingle! We will also learn capitalization and punctuation rules and apply them to our writing. Ask your child to sing the SENTENCE jingle they learned!
Math: We will review unit 1 (numbers to 1000) Monday and Tuesday and test over unit one on Wednesday, Tuesday nights homework will provide wonderful practice for Wednesday’s test. We will review comparing and ordering numbers, place value, writing numbers in various forms and symbols ( <, >, =). Then we will jump into unit 2! In unit 2 we will learn strategies for mental math using addition and subtraction!
I would love to purchase a classroom set of Base 10 Blocks or Place Value Disks for the students to use at their desks. Please let me know if you'd be interested in helping donate these items as we may need a group of parents to help :-).
History:
Our journey will go on as we continue discussing basic facts about Canada and then head South to Mexico and Central America. We will learn about the origin of the West Indies, languages, symbols as well as review the history of the Aztecs and Mexico City.
Our journey will go on as we continue discussing basic facts about Canada and then head South to Mexico and Central America. We will learn about the origin of the West Indies, languages, symbols as well as review the history of the Aztecs and Mexico City.
As requested, here are some Island Project examples from last year (Due September 7). The goal is to be creative and have fun!
Science: Your young scientists will continue learning about the seasons of the year. Students will to be able identify characteristics of each season and explore how plants, animals, and humans are affected. We will review how the seasons change by the earth's tilt and its revolution around the sun (ask your young scholar about the demonstration we did with a globe and a lamp). Mrs. Smith helped us understand it better...
If you could help us out with our leaf rubbing activity by donating your Sunday newspaper to the classroom we would greatly appreciate it! You can send those in on Monday or Tuesday morning.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski
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