Dear 2A Families, We have done it! Our last week before break is here. I hope everyone has a beautiful holiday. Please bring a sturdy bag for Wednesday. We will be cleaning out our desks so that the cleaning crew can do a deep cleaning over the winter break. Also encourage your child to bring their favorite stuffed animal on Wednesday as well! :) LITERATURE Announcing our next literature selection! Please send in your child’s copy of Little House in the Big Woods. We will begin this book directly after break. It will be important for scholars to have it ready and available! SPELLING There are no spelling words this short week. Scholars will be taking 70 phonogram assessment and reviewing spelling rules and manuscript handwriting in preparation for cursive instruction next semester! Please be on the lookout for handwriting homework on Monday. GRAMMAR and WRITING This week scholars are narrating “Alexander the Great and His Horse” and learning how to write direct quotations. PO
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Good Morning 2A Families! LITERATURE This is an exciting week in literature! Second grade scholars start off the week by turning in their Boxcar Dioramas! We are looking forward to seeing all the hard work that has gone into their creation. We then review and take a final test on The Boxcar Children. On Friday, we celebrate the end of the book with a classroom celebration. Thank you to all those contributing to our celebration and making it possible. POETRY Scholars have one more week to prepare "The Night Before Christmas." Recitations begin on the 16th. SPELLING There are 30 words this week. On Monday, scholars spell except, ant, aunt, capture, else, bridge, offer, suffer, center, and front. On Tuesday, they spell running, run, rule, carry, chain, death, learn, wonder, pair, pear, and pare. Wednesday's words are check, prove, heard, hear, inspect, itself, always, something, and expect. GRAMMAR and WRITING Scholars have learned muc
Happy December 2A! I hope everyone had a beautiful Thanksgiving break. Onward to December! Time is flying by! MATH This week we are diving deeper into Multiplication with our 2s and 3s. Please encourage your child to practice their skip counting by 2s and 3s at home as this will certainly help during lessons! LITERATURE It is time for scholars to assemble their boxcar dioramas. They are due, Monday, December 9th. We read the last two chapters of The Boxcar Children this week. Our vocabulary words are mills, waited on, and homesick. We discuss patience and hospitality as they relate to the characters in our story. POETRY Students should have their two stanzas as “The Night Before Christmas” memorized and ready to recite by December 16th. SPELLING Scholars will spell 29 words this week. On Monday we spell daily, day, eagle, fancy, fly, forest, freeze, gentle, grow, and holes. On Tuesday we spell hotel, iron, living, live, monkey, myself, noise, pencil, pie, and pull. On Wednesda
Dear 2A Families, I am very thankful for this year for the support from our parents. You have helped to make this a very transparent and helpful classroom community, and it brings me great joy. I wish for all families to have a beautiful Thanksgiving Break, and may it be filled with food, fun, and rest. <3 Library Books are due TOMORROW (We will not be here the 29th so it helps to turn them in tomorrow or the Monday we return). As the semester draws to a close, Archway Arete teachers are hard at work drafting narrative evaluations for each of their students. This labor of love requires many hours of intentional reflection and to facilitate this process, our teachers are given one work day to focus on writing these evals. On December 9th, I will be away from the classroom writing narrative evaluations. If you are interested in supporting our classroom during my absence, please email me. Thank you in advance! LITERATURE Scholars are completing a character traits writin
Good Morning 2A Families, Our Winter Concert THIS WEDNESDAY, November 20th! It will be at Higley Center for the Performing Arts: 4132 E Pecos Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85295. Please have your kindergartners at Higley Center for the Performing Arts by 4:45pm and 1st and 2nd graders there at 5:00pm. Students’ attire for our performances is NOT school uniform. Gentlemen are expected to wear a plain white dress shirt, black pants, black socks and black closed toed shoes. Solid dark colored vests and ties are optional for gentlemen. Ladies are expected to wear a white top, black skirt, black tights and black closed toed shoes. Please visit aretek-2music.blogspot.com or email jweddle@archwayarete.org for questions regarding the concert! HISTORY We have the test over Ancient China on Monday. The study guide was sent home on Friday (11/15). This Test will be OPEN NOTE/STUDY GUIDE. :) We are concentrating on showing your child HOW to take a test and different strategies. After the tes
Hello 2A Families! As the daughter of an Air Force Veteran and wife of an Army Vet, Veterans day is quite close to my heart. Thank you to all that have served in our forces! I hope you have a restful three day weekend. :) The EVENTS tab on the blog will have pictures from our latest events! Check it out! A special announcement concerning the Annual Spelling Bee ... "Dear Parents, It is my pleasure to announce that Spelling Bee season is upon us! Your child will be participating in a class Spelling Bee during the week of November 18th. Please use the word list sent home with them on Friday to study and make sure to read over the Spelling Bee letter for important dates and details. It is not mandatory for your child to study at home, however we recommend that all children participate in the class bee! Please reach out to me at any time if you have questions or concerns. -Miss Modisett (bmodisett@archwayarete.org)" Our Winter Concert is quickl
Hello 2A Families! We had a wonderful Read-A-Thon! Thank you to all of our volunteers who came to make this happen. Pictures will be attached to a link shortly. Students brought home manila folders on Friday. Please return these to school empty by the following Friday each week! These papers are from 1st quarter, so grades have already been processed and discussed during parent teacher conferences. (We are now all caught up!) If you would like to help with Friday Folders, please sign up using the Volunteer Tab on the blog. :) The PSO normally has a uniform exchange to help families with putting together concert attire, but they needed to move the date of the exchange for the Prep's awesome playoff game! Unfortunately the exchange is now after the concert, Nov. 20th. If you would like to use the uniform exchange, please email Deanna Carpenter at uniformexchangepso@gmail.com The dress attire for the concert will be as follows: Boys : Black pants, white
2A Families, Thank you for joining us for parent teacher conference week! It was a pleasure to meet all of you and share about your child’s progress. We now have the sign up geniuses for classroom volunteers! You can find the links on the volunteering tab on the homepage. As a reminder, Read-A-Thon is on Thursday. Please no pop culture costumes! We also have a half day this Friday. Students will be dismissed at 11:45am. MATH Our next unit is weight! A fun little activity at the grocery store during next week: use the scales to see how much a pound of fruit or vegetables weigh. Add and subtract the items to see the different weights! LITERATURE Scholars read Chapter 5 of The Boxcar Children. Our vocabulary words are kettle and bundles. We will discuss resourcefulness as a character trait and how it relates to the children in our story. POETRY Recitations of “Merry Autumn Days” begin and will be carried on throughout the week. SPALDING There are 20 words this week.
Good morning 2A Families, Just a reminder, this week consists of half days for our conference! Dismissal is at 11:45 for first pickup, 12:05 for second pickup and 12:35pm for third. There will be no tutoring this week as well due to conferences. There will be no lunch served, however we recommend going forward supplying either a large snack or two snacks. 2nd grade will be having their second snack closer to 11am. If you have not signed up for conferences, please follow this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4ca8af2fa3f94-quarter If you are unable to make any of the remaining times listed, please reply to this email so that I may schedule a phone conference with you next week! Introducing the The Boxcar Children Diorama project ! Using a shoebox, scholars are going to create a diorama showing the Alden children’s home— the boxcar! They will decorate the outside of the box to look like a boxcar and include five specific items from the story that show how the ch
Good morning 2A Families! I hope everyone is refreshed and rejuvenated from fall break! Just a note about report cards, it is very common to see 2s and 3s for the first quarter report card! Checklists will follow along these guidelines: 4- Student is completely independent in this area/standard. 3-Student is mostly independent with occasional guidance. 2- Student needs frequent guidance in this area/standard. 1- Student needs complete teacher guidance/aide. If you have not signed up for parent-teacher conferences, feel free to follow this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4ca8af2fa3f94-quarter Please also keep an eye out for volunteer signups happening after our conferences! Math Welcome back everyone, we are beginning our Length Unit! Wednesday we are doing a fun activity with paper airplanes and measuring how far they are taking flight! If you have any spare measuring tape, please send it in! It will be easier to use in measuring our plan
It's my favorite time of year! (One of my favorites). You can find the SignUp Genius Link Here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090d4ca8af2fa3f94-quarter Conferences will last 25 minutes each and will be a great time to meet face to face now that school has been going! It is also a time where we will be soliciting classroom volunteers! Please reach out if these times do not work, I will gladly do a phone conference with you if you cannot make it in. :) Warmly, Mrs. Guevara
Dear 2A Families, Thank you to all of our wonderful grandparents and parent volunteers who were able to come out today. It was a beautiful time meeting everyone's families. One more week and it's Fall Break! Let's work hard! SPALDING Scholars have 29 words this week. On Monday, they spell right, write, wrote, date, road, rode, ride, March, march, and next. On Tuesday, they spell indeed, four, herself, power, wish, because, cause, world, and country. On Wednesday, they spell meet, meat, another, tripped, trip, list, people, ever, held, and church. LITERATURE We read chapters 1 and 2 of The Box-car Children this week. Please send this book to school if you haven’t already done so. Your second grade scholar will be learning how to make inferences and how to identify important character traits. He or she will be discussing alertness and courage as they relate to the story. We will be studying the following vocabulary words: cross, cake, haystack, pump. WRITING We complete
LITERATURE We have finished reading Charlotte’s Web. This week students participate in a friendship seminar. We will discuss what it means to be a true friend. Each child in class, has been assigned a chapter or passage from the book to summarize in one or two sentences. Students will do a chapter summary reading of the book! On Wednesday, we will watch the film version of Charlotte’s Web and snack on popcorn to celebrate the end of the book! Our next literature selection is The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Please send your child’s copy of this book to school this week, so it is ready to go for next week. SPELLING There are 30 spelling words this week. On Monday, students spell watch, dash, fell, fight, buy, by, stopping, stop, walk, talk, and chalk. On Tuesday, students spell grant, soap, news, new, small, smaller, smallest, war, and summer. On Wednesday, students spell above, express, turn, lesson, half, father, anything, table, high, and June. POETRY Recitations for
LITERATURE We are reading Chapters 20-22 of Charlotte’s Web this week. We will continue to discuss humility, but will also find out how humility is related to friendship. Here are the vocabulary words we will look at: triumph, supernatural, unconscious, desolation, monkeyshine, mimicked, hallowed, pledge, garrulous. SPELLING There are 20 spelling words this short week. On Tuesday, we will spell catch, catcher, kitchen, butcher, black, warm, unless, clothing, clothes, clothe. On Wednesday , we spell began, begin, begun, able, gone, go, done, do, suit, track. Please continue to dictate each word one and at time to your child as he or she practices them each evening. Ask your child to tell you when and where we use “ck” in a word. POETRY Your child should have “Something Told the Wild Geese” memorized by the end of the week. We begin recitations on Wednesday by invitation. Please refer to the recitation rubric to help your child prepare to recite with confidence.
Dear 2A Families, This Week in 2nd Grade... LITERATURE We are reading Chapters 15-19 of Charlotte’s Web this week. We will be discussing humility as a theme of the story and as a character trait, but also why humility is a virtue and how it manifests itself in thoughts, actions, and behavior. Here are the vocabulary words we will look at: yarn, pummeled, pickpockets, midway, listless, keen, humble, schemer, magnum opus, languishing, bystander. SPELLING Your second grader will finish Section K of the Spalding Spelling list with 29 words this week. On Monday, we will spell light, coming, come, night, pass, shut, easy, ease, bone, cloud. On Tuesday, we will spell draw, drink, garden, goose, hopping, hop, knife, mouth, oak, peach. On Wednesday , we spell pole, queen, rope, season, sign, space, wagon, wheat, window. Please continue to dictate each word one and at time to your child as he or she practices them each evening. Ask your child to tell you when one can use t
History : Next week, your child will take their first test covering Geography and the Americas. Watch for a study guide coming home on Wednesday. Please help your child study. The test will be similar to the study guide. They will have to label the continents and the major countries of North America. Also, please remember that the Island Project is due September 9. Science : The seasons quiz is on Thursday. Please help your child study next week using the study guide that will come home Tuesday. We will also learn the chicken life cycle this week! SPALDING: This week we have only 20 spelling words, it being a shorter week. On Tuesday, we spell spell, poor, finish, hurt, maybe, across, tonight, tenth, sir, these, and those. On Wednesday, we spell club, seen, see, felt, full, fail, setting, set, and stamp. LITERATURE: W e are more than halfway through Charlotte’s Web! We are taking a vocabulary quiz this week on the words we study in chapters 8-14.