Good afternoon 2A Family!
It was such a pleasure meeting everyone Thursday evening! I recognized quite a few faces from over the years at Arete, and I'm excited for our new faces that will be joining us. I can tell we have a strong and warm parent community already.
Look forward to a blog post between Friday evenings (on rare occasions it will be Saturdays). It will detail what to look forward for the upcoming week and any supplies that will need to be brought in.
If you have not already brought in your child's supplies, you do have until Tuesday to make sure all supplies are here. We do start with learning right away on Monday!
I have 1/3 of our class that have responded to our 2A Parent/Student survey! Please take a few moments to fill this out, as it really helps to establish relationships and understanding family dynamics.
We are looking for our Class Parent Team and Community Volunteers! If you are interested please fill out this survey so we can get that rolling!
On This Week's Episode of 2nd Grade...
Literature
We begin reading Charlotte’s Web this week! Please send your child’s copy to school. We’ll start reading on Wednesday. The vocabulary words we will be looking at are runt, injustice, specimen, enchanted, waded, manure, perspiration, hullabaloo, and gander.
Grammar
Students will be making a Grammar Notebook this week in class. We will use this notebook throughout the year. Encourage your child to keep a neat notebook! Our lesson topics this week include complete sentences, antonyms and synonyms, and the vocabulary word “stroll.”
Writing
Our writing lessons have a few different parts: reading, narration, copywork, and dictation. We will read from “The Owl and the Grasshopper” and from “The Fox and the Stork.” We will practice writing a brief summary of these passages and focus on the use of beginning capitals and end punctuation.
Spelling
We review manuscript handwriting this first week of school. There are no official spelling words this week. Those come next week. On day one, we take a spelling scale test. The rest of the week we brush up on correct sitting position, paper placement, pencil grip, handwriting rules, and phonograms. Students will have handwriting practice sheets for homework on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Please help your child follow the directions on these sheets. Families new to Spalding will want to review single letter phonogram sounds with their children.
Poetry
Our first poem of the year “Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Students will memorize one stanza a week, and will recite the poem in its entirety by August 23rd. Look for a copy of the poem and the recitation rubric in your child’s red homework folder.
I look forward to seeing everyone's bright and happy smiles on Monday! Get some rest, eat a big breakfast, and let's rock and roll!
It was such a pleasure meeting everyone Thursday evening! I recognized quite a few faces from over the years at Arete, and I'm excited for our new faces that will be joining us. I can tell we have a strong and warm parent community already.
Look forward to a blog post between Friday evenings (on rare occasions it will be Saturdays). It will detail what to look forward for the upcoming week and any supplies that will need to be brought in.
If you have not already brought in your child's supplies, you do have until Tuesday to make sure all supplies are here. We do start with learning right away on Monday!
I have 1/3 of our class that have responded to our 2A Parent/Student survey! Please take a few moments to fill this out, as it really helps to establish relationships and understanding family dynamics.
We are looking for our Class Parent Team and Community Volunteers! If you are interested please fill out this survey so we can get that rolling!
On This Week's Episode of 2nd Grade...
Literature
We begin reading Charlotte’s Web this week! Please send your child’s copy to school. We’ll start reading on Wednesday. The vocabulary words we will be looking at are runt, injustice, specimen, enchanted, waded, manure, perspiration, hullabaloo, and gander.
Grammar
Students will be making a Grammar Notebook this week in class. We will use this notebook throughout the year. Encourage your child to keep a neat notebook! Our lesson topics this week include complete sentences, antonyms and synonyms, and the vocabulary word “stroll.”
Writing
Our writing lessons have a few different parts: reading, narration, copywork, and dictation. We will read from “The Owl and the Grasshopper” and from “The Fox and the Stork.” We will practice writing a brief summary of these passages and focus on the use of beginning capitals and end punctuation.
Spelling
We review manuscript handwriting this first week of school. There are no official spelling words this week. Those come next week. On day one, we take a spelling scale test. The rest of the week we brush up on correct sitting position, paper placement, pencil grip, handwriting rules, and phonograms. Students will have handwriting practice sheets for homework on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Please help your child follow the directions on these sheets. Families new to Spalding will want to review single letter phonogram sounds with their children.
Poetry
Our first poem of the year “Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Students will memorize one stanza a week, and will recite the poem in its entirety by August 23rd. Look for a copy of the poem and the recitation rubric in your child’s red homework folder.
History: Welcome to week one in history! Your child will be diving right into geography this week!Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring maps and globes. This week we will begin with a review of the basic geography concepts of place, region, and relative location. Children review that maps have symbols, keys to decipher those symbols, and that maps also show cardinal directions. Students will review the continents and identify all four oceans along with Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America on the North American Continent. A fun activity at home is to study a map together and talk about the location of the continents using the terms north, south, east, and west.
Science: Our young scientists will learn about the steps of the scientific method (observations, problem, hypothesis, experiment, results, conclusion) through exploration of a STEM activity called "Can you save Fred?" and reading a book called 11 Experiments that Failed. Look for pictures of this activity on the blog next week!
Math: Welcome back Arete families and welcome to those joining us! This year will be an exciting one in the world of mathematics! This week we will be taking a pre-test. This will NOT be graded! This is for them to get a feel of what is to come, and they will feel good once they see some problems familiar to them from last year. Encourage your child to do their best, and let them know their teacher will be walking them through the test with them as well (no need for the testing jitters!)
I look forward to seeing everyone's bright and happy smiles on Monday! Get some rest, eat a big breakfast, and let's rock and roll!
Up Up and Away!
Mrs. Guevara & Mr. Kiehne
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