We survived our 4 day week! Did the shorter week feel longer to anyone else? Just me? :-)
Just a HEADS UP that February is going to be a VERY BUSY month! We have our Greek Festival AND Great Hearts Day!
MAP Testing: Testing will take place again on Tuesday, January 31 and Friday, February 3. This is more practice for our little ones on how to take tests on a laptop. Just make sure they come to school with a full tummy (nutritious breakfast) and ready to do their best on 1/31 and 2/2! Thank you for your help with this!
Greek Festival: Friday, February 3 (after MAP testing) students will enjoy a Greek Festival to celebrate the culmination of our unit on Ancient Greece and to recognize all we have learned about their culture and history. Please use this sign up link to help with items needed. This is for the ENTIRE 2nd grade!
Great Hearts Day: A Day for Friendship - Tuesday, February 14th is Great Hearts Day! We have reserved this special day to focus on the virtue of friendship and celebrate the traits that make a great-hearted student. Teachers are planning interactive and fun activities centered around these topics, and time will be set aside for students to create hand-made Great Hearts Day cards for their classmates. Archway Arete strives to cultivate a rich, academic environment rooted in the classical tradition. This many times requires popular culture to be left at the door. On that note, students will not be permitted to bring store-bought valentines, candy, or gifts to school. Thank you for partnering with us.
Scholar Shout-Outs:
To ALL of our scholars for working so hard at memorizing Smart by Shel Silverstein. They sound great for only the 2nd week of practice. We will keep working on it!
Thank you Kendall for bringing in this book about the Human Body!
Next Week in 2B:
Language Arts:
Literature ~ In literature next week we will read chapters 4-6 in Cricket in Times Square, answering comprehension questions after each chapter, as well as discussing adults in our lives and the special things they do for us! We will also use context clues to figure out meanings of unknown vocabulary words!
Writing/Grammar ~ We are revising and editing our paragraph about our two favorite colors!
Spalding Words ~
Monday: fairy, knock, leather, linen, mixture, nation, pause, peace, permission, rough
Tuesday: social (society), steal (steel), strange, trophy, voices, voice, eight, ate
Wednesday: afraid, uncle, rather, comfort, election, elect, aboard, jail, shed, refuse, district, restrain
Math: We will be reviewing mental math strategies from chapter 7. Thursday nights homework will provide great practice for the test Friday! Practice some mental math in the car like these problems: 71-5, 245-3, 24+5, 123+10, etc. We talked a lot about how to do this in our head without having to "stack" the problem.
Science: We will continue learning about the human body by studying the digestive system and excretory system (insert giggles and laughter from our 2nd graders)! We will also be conducting a fun (and maybe a little gross?) demonstration of the DIGESTIVE system PLUS we will be making a MODEL of the excretory system using some common items! Please use this link to sign up to donate these items. We appreciate your generosity! Please ask me what I remember about cells, tissues, and organs!
History: We are excited to present the Great Thinkers of Ancient Greece and discover the origins of many of our roots here in the United States, and especially at Archway Arete. Students will connect our Socratic-style discussion to Socrates himself. Challenge your scholars to differentiate facts between Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great.
Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski
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