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Week Four

Hello 2A Families!

Galileo Pre-Testing will be on Monday. Please have your child eat breakfast and get plenty of rest the night before! 
Also, I am still awaiting Media Releases from the front office. Once I have those, you'll start seeing amazing pictures of what we are doing in class! :)

 We will continue our study of the geography of the Americas this week. Your child will learn about Central and South America. Ask your child to tell you who Simon Bolivar is and where the Andes Mountains are.

 We will finish up our unit on the seasons this week. The last season we will talk about is Summer! Ask your child about how the Earth's tilt affects the seasons. 

Math: This week we are heading right into our math facts! Addition, subtraction, and looking at word problems. What are some word problems you and your child can create from everyday activities like grocery shopping, or cooking? It will be very helpful to work at home with flashcards, both addition and subtraction as a warmup. There will be no homework this Labor Day Weekend, so enjoy some rest!

SPALDING
This week students have 30 spelling words. This will be the norm going forward, except when our schedules do not allow it (as during shorter weeks, special events, etc.). On Monday, we will be spelling wife, state, July, head, story, open, short, lady, reach, better. On Tuesday, we will be spelling water, round, cost, price, become, class, horse, care, try, and move. On Wednesday, we will spell delay, pound, behind, around, burn, camp, bear, bare, clear, and clean. 

LITERATURE
We will be reading chapters 11-13 of Charlotte's Web. Our vocabulary words are exertions, bewilderment, miracle, idiosyncrasy, slogan, baser, org, radial, and radiant. We will find out what it means to be "Some Pig." 

POETRY
We start memorizing a new poem this week. It is by Rachel Lyman Field and is called "Something Told the Wild Geese." Your child should be ready and confident enough to recite by September 20th. Help them prepare with the Recitation Rubric. Recitations of "Bed in Summer" continue into this next week. 

GRAMMAR
Your child is continuing to learn capitalization rules and how to use them. We will explore rules of punctuation as well this week. Capitalization Rule 1 is "We always capitalize the first word of a sentence." Help us emphasis the "ALWAYS" in this rule. Do you see your child breaking this rule? Ask him or her, "When do we capitalize the first word of a sentence?" Hopefully, your child will respond with a smile, "ALWAYS!" 

WRITING
This week we are exploring capitalization and complete sense with exemplary sentences from Charlotte's Web. We will write about the discovery of Charlotte's Web. 

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