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Week 26: Leveled Readers

Hello 2A Families!

 This week we are starting leveled readers! Your child will be bringing home a blue book bag with their name in the tag. They will be using these the remainder of the year, so please encourage them to take extra special care for them and the booklets inside (we are hoping to remake booklets every 2 years!) . On Mondays (or Tuesdays in the case of shorter weeks), books will be switched out. Please indicate on the reading logs in the bookbags if the book is either too easy or difficult, and we are able to assess students prior to changing the level the following week. 
SCIENCE
This week, we begin a new unit all about simple machines. Review the following simple machines with your student: lever, pulley, wheel and axle, wedge, inclined plane, and screw. See if you can find examples of each in your home or neighborhood.

HISTORY
We are wrapping up the unit on the War of 1812 this week. Our last lesson will cover the Battle of New Orleans and then your student will take a short, 11 point quiz, on Friday.

POETRY
Scholars continue to work towards mastery of the Preamble to the United States Constitution. Please help scholars be prepared to recite by February 28th.

SPELLING
There are 20 words this week. We continue to incorporate cursive more and more into our homework assignments this week. Please refer to the homework sheet for directions on how to support students as they complete practice at home. Tuesday's words are judge, weather, whether, worth, contain, figure, sudden, throw, threw. Wednesday's words are personal, everything, rate, chief, perfect, second, slide, farther, duty, intend.

LITERATURE
Spring and the summertime come to our characters in Little House in the Big Woods. We explore lines of verse from our story and copy them and continue to summarize passages as we read.

GRAMMAR and WRITING
Scholars begin the writing process for an explanatory paragraph. They will create a prewriting map and then compose a rough draft before learning about using transition words and writing titles.


MATH
We are well into our money unit! If you have any grocery ads, please send them with your child for an activity on Thursday. We will be looking at comprising grocery lists and learning word problems associated with money. 

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