Mrs. Guevara's Classroom Blog ♡

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 un

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 studen

Hello 2A Families! We are in need of a few classroom supplies, as spring time is around the time things get a little low in the classroom.  2A Wishlist: #2 Pencils Expo Markers Paper Towels Erasers HISTORY We are continuing the unit on the War of 1812. We will learn about James and Dolley Madison, the burning of Washington, and Old Ironsides. We will also learn about the creation of our National Anthem. SCIENCE This week we will study for and take a test about the human body. Look for a study guide coming home on Tuesday.  POETRY Scholars will be start to memorize the Preamble to the United States Constitution. This will their focus over the next three weeks. Recitations of "Smart" are ongoing all of week 25. SPELLING There are 30 spelling words this week. Mondays words are  trophy, voices, voice, eight, ate, afraid, uncle, rather, comfort, election,  and  elect.  Tuesdays words are  aboard, jail, shed, refuse, district, restrain, royal, o

Hello 2A Families! Just a reminder, Picture Day is tomorrow, February 3rd. :) POETRY Scholars should focus on memorizing the fifth and final stanza of "Smart" by Shel Silverstein. Remember, your child is working towards complete memorization of this poem by this Thursday, February 6th. SPELLING We continue cursive instruction. There are NO spelling words. There will be handwriting homework each evening. Scholars will learn how to write cursive capital letters and then how to write each multi-letter phonogram. LITERATURE and WRITING Scholars read Chapter 6 and 7 of Little House in the Big Woods. They will meet two bears in the woods and learn how to bleed maple trees for syrup! Our copywork is a lengthy sentence from our story. We summarize “The Story of Pa and the Bear in the Way” and then a passage on “bleeding” trees. GRAMMAR Scholars learn how to identify the part of speech of a single word this  week . Then your child will begin to learn to learn ab