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 “Something Told the Wild Geese” continue into this week. We begin a new poem, “Merry Autumn Days” by Charles Dickens. We focus on the first half of stanza one this week. Students should be prepared to recite by October 29th.
WRITING
We have two copywork sentences from Charlotte’s Web this week. There are so many memorable lines in this book! We will study a few of these and practice using proper capitalization and punctuation and transcribing lengthy sentences.
GRAMMAR
Your child will begin to classify sentences this week. Classifying is naming and labeling each word in a sentence according to its part of speech and grammatical structure. This is a big deal for you second grader!
MATH
This week we will be diving into our renaming "(borrowing" for those of us who grew up with that term) chapter! Check thoroughly over your child's homework, and remind them to draw place value charts. The smallest of items can be manipulatives (or incentives..skittles, marshmallows, etc.).
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 “Something Told the Wild Geese” continue into this week. We begin a new poem, “Merry Autumn Days” by Charles Dickens. We focus on the first half of stanza one this week. Students should be prepared to recite by October 29th.
WRITING
We have two copywork sentences from Charlotte’s Web this week. There are so many memorable lines in this book! We will study a few of these and practice using proper capitalization and punctuation and transcribing lengthy sentences.
GRAMMAR
Your child will begin to classify sentences this week. Classifying is naming and labeling each word in a sentence according to its part of speech and grammatical structure. This is a big deal for you second grader!
MATH
This week we will be diving into our renaming "(borrowing" for those of us who grew up with that term) chapter! Check thoroughly over your child's homework, and remind them to draw place value charts. The smallest of items can be manipulatives (or incentives..skittles, marshmallows, etc.).
History
Next week we are continuing our study of ancient India. Your child will learn a Jataka tale, a story Buddha told that taught people how to live and included a moral. We will also learn about King Asoka and how he influenced the spread of Buddhism in India.
Science
We are wrapping up our life cycle unit with the study of the plant life cycle. We will be growing and studying lima beans for the next couple of weeks. After Fall break, we will observe the butterfly life cycle in person as well!
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