Dear 2B Families,
We had an awesome 4 day week! I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. I was lucky that our "Academic Break" fell on my niece's 3rd birthday! We enjoyed a fun morning at the zoo feeding the giraffes.
Scholar Fun:
Book Fair: Tomorrow is the Arete Book Fair at Barnes and Noble! Don't forget to bring your voucher! I wish I could come be a guest reader but we will be at a wedding! Enjoy the Book Fair for me!
Poetry Recitations: Your child will be assessed on their recitation of Merry Autumn Days the week of November 6th. Second grade will also be reciting Something Told the Wild Geese at our assembly Tuesday!
Read-a-thon Day: Read-A-Thon Day is taking place next Tuesday. Your child may come to school dressed as their favorite classical literature character, scientists, or historical figure. Please remember to fill out this costume proposal by today. We will have our classroom celebration from 11:50-1:10. Our school Assembly and afternoon buddy reading will take place from 1:30-2:25. Feel free to stop by in the afternoon for any of these events. We'd love to see you there!
Poetry Recitations: Your child will be assessed on their recitation of Merry Autumn Days the week of November 6th. Second grade will also be reciting Something Told the Wild Geese at our assembly Tuesday!
Read-a-thon Day: Read-A-Thon Day is taking place next Tuesday. Your child may come to school dressed as their favorite classical literature character, scientists, or historical figure. Please remember to fill out this costume proposal by today. We will have our classroom celebration from 11:50-1:10. Our school Assembly and afternoon buddy reading will take place from 1:30-2:25. Feel free to stop by in the afternoon for any of these events. We'd love to see you there!
Please visit aretek-2music.blogspot.com or email jweddle@archwayarete.org for questions regarding the concert!
Next Week in 2B...
Spalding: Next week we will have 20 words (with review words built in on Tuesday). There will be no Spalding homework assigned on Tuesday evening.
Monday: stream, talks, tiny, words, trust, extra, dress, beside, teach, happen
Wednesday: begun, collect, file, provide, sight, stood, fixed, fix, born
Grammar: Last week we added period, statement, declarative sentence to our Question & Answer Flow. This week we will talk about dividing the complete subject from the complete predicate. Ask your child if they know the difference between an adverb and an adjective!
Writing: Next up in Writing with Ease is a passage from Pilgrim's Progress. We will continue with our weekly procedure of narration, copywork, and dictation.
Math: We will complete our unit on measurement on Monday, and will then be getting into multiplication and division! These two new operations will take quite a bit of practice and may require a lot of encouragement, but rest assured "We can do hard things!" Fact fluency will greatly help your child better understand these concepts! Please continue to practice skip counting with your child by 2's, 3,s 5,s and 10's.
Science: Our Water Cycle unit will continue through studying condensation and precipitation. We will make a terrarium in class!
Here is a picture of our experiment this week...we observed evaporation!
History: We will finish up our Ancient India unit with a test on Monday. A study guide was sent home with your kiddos on Friday, so please be sure to help them study this weekend (please see Mrs. D's e-mail with a link to the game we played in class and the answer key to the Study Guide since many of us did not have time to finish our Study Guide). We will be jumping right into our new unit on Ancient China on Wednesday! Ask your children about Confucius and how they might be able to apply some of his teaching to their lives. Fun Fact: Confucius was the first person we know of to teach the Golden Rule. He put it this way: "What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others."
Love,
Mrs. Dombrowski
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