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Week 27: Field Trip!

Hello 2A Families!

 FIELD TRIP
Our field trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum is on Friday, March 20! We will be leaving at 8:15 am and returning around 2:00. A permission slip has already been sent home in your child's homework folder. If you would like to chaperone this fun field trip, please email me by Wednesday, March 4. We will select and send more information to chaperones after that date. Please be sure your child brings the following: 
  • Sack lunch (everything should be able to be thrown out after eating)
  • Disposable water bottle
  • Wear tennis shoes and sunblock
  • Hat & sunglasses (optional)
MATH
We are finishing up our money unit with understanding equations and word problems. We are finishing up this unit with a cumulative test on Friday.

SCIENCE
Next week we will continue our study of simple machines by learning about inclined planes, wedges, and screws.

HISTORY
Next week your child will become an American pioneer! We begin our unit on how Americans moved west. We will be talking about reasons people would have moved and the transportation they used to get there. Ask your child to tell you all about the different ways settlers would have traveled

POETRY
Scholars should be ready to recite the Preamble to the United States Constitution by the end of the week.

SPELLING
There are 30 words this week. There will be no words on Monday. Tuesday's words are company, quite, quit, quiet, none, knew, know, remain, direction, direct, appear, liberty, enough, fact, board. Wednesday's words are September, station, attend, public, music, picnic, picnicking, friends, friend, during, endure, police, until, truly, true. Scholars will have spelling homework on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. They are writing their words in manuscript and in cursive. Thank you for supporting your child in this!

LITERATURE
We are nearing the end of Little House in the Big Woods. Summertime, has come to our characters in the Big Woods. As we read this week, we will have discussions about honesty and the importance of working hard and being helpful! We will copy lines from an old folk song and continue to summarize passages that we read.

WRITING and GRAMMAR
We are continuing to work on paragraph writing this week. Scholars are writing an explanatory paragraph on their favorite poems from this year in second grade. We will be working through the revising, editing, and publishing steps of the writing process.

With Grateful Hearts,
Mrs. Guevara and Mr. Kiehne

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