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Hello 2A Families!

We had a wonderful Read-A-Thon! Thank you to all of our volunteers who came to make this happen. Pictures will be attached to a link shortly.

Students brought home manila folders on Friday. Please return these to school empty by the following Friday each week! These papers are from 1st quarter, so grades have already been processed and discussed during parent teacher conferences. (We are now all caught up!) If you would like to help with Friday Folders, please sign up using the Volunteer Tab on the blog. :)

The PSO normally has a uniform exchange to help families with putting together concert attire, but they needed to move the date of the exchange for the Prep's awesome playoff game! Unfortunately the exchange is now after the concert, Nov. 20th. If you would like to use the uniform exchange, please email Deanna Carpenter at uniformexchangepso@gmail.com


The dress attire for the concert will be as follows:
Boys: Black pants, white dress shirt, black dress shoes, and black socks.  Hair should be combed neatly.
Girls: Black skirt, white top, black tights, and black dress shoes. Hair should be pulled away from the face with no distracting adornment. Please follow the Archway Arete dress code for guidelines on jewelry.
LITERATURE
This week second grade scholars are reading Chapter 6 and 7 of The Boxcar Children. Our vocabulary words are hem, dam, thin, and ladle. We will discuss initiative and orderliness as it relates to the characters in our story. Ask your child what the children in our story have done thus far to make the boxcar seem more like a home.

SPALDING
We have 20 words this week. We will not have a spelling lesson on Monday due to some Galileo testing. That means there will be no Spadling homework on this day. Tuesday's words are paid, laid, said, enter, railroad, unable, ticket, account, driven, real. Wednesday's words are recover, mountain, speak, past, might, contract, deal, almost, all, brought, bring.

GRAMMAR/WRITING
Students are taking a Grammar test this week. We will learn about declarative sentences and about subjects and predicates as we continue to classify sentences. We have discussed four of the parts of speech this year. Ask your child to name each part of speech and give you an example.

Science: We are continuing the study of the water cycle. This week, ask your child about different types of clouds. See if they can identify any clouds they see in the sky.

History: Our study of Ancient China continues next week. We will learn about Chinese writing and inventions. Ask your child what they thought was the most important invention from the Chinese and why. We will also learn about how silk was invented and made. Ask your child to describe the story of how silk was discovered. 

Math: We are finishing up our Weight Unit with learning about Pounds and Ounces! Please help your child study Wednesday night for our Cumulative Test on Thursday. Our next unit will be Multiplication! We highly encourage you to have your child work on the Xtra Math program at home! It will definitely help with fluency and confidence. :)

With Grateful Hearts,
Mrs.Guevara and Mr. Kiehne






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