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Week 12

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. On Tuesday, we spell begun, collect, file, provide, sight, stood, fixed, fix, born. Wednesday’s words are goes, does, Tuesday, hold, drill, army, pretty, stole, income, bought. There is spelling homework on Thursday. 

GRAMMAR & WRITING
We prepare for next week’s grammar test with a bunch of review. Scholars will review all they have learned about capitalization and punctuation rules, editing, and classifying sentences. 

 SCIENCE
Next week we will continue the study of the water cycle. We will learn about condensation and precipitation along with the water cycle on the earth. Ask you child to tell you the steps of the water cycle next week!

HISTORY
 Next week we are learning about one of the greatest feats of engineering in the world: The Great Wall of China. Your child should be able to recognize the Great Wall and understand the work required as well as why it was built. If your family enjoys documentaries, here is a good National Geographic video about the Great Wall.

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