Longfellow (Spring) Arts Fiestas, are opportunities for the "Arts" at Longfellow to showcase what they do with students in class throughout the year. Visual Arts, Spanish and General Music put together a presentation for each grade level in the building. On the night or day of the Fiesta, the galleries (hallways) are filled with student art from the featured grade level and all the students in Spanish and Music present a program in the auditorium. I hope every family can be here on Wed, 2/24, for the 2nd grade performance at 6:30. This enables your child to participate with classmates; and, hearing your praise for his/her hard work means so much to your child!
In class this week we have some very special “visitors” for Black History Month! Bessie Coleman, Langston Hughes, Mary McLeod Bethune, Henry Brown, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King will all be impersonated by our 2nd graders who will also be “performing” at the “Night at the Museum” on Fri, 2/26!
Our final “Fossil” story is “Let’s Go Dinosaur Tracking”. We will focus on identifying the main idea and the supporting details for each section. This skill really helps when reading as well as writing expository pieces. The vocabulary words to know are: tracks, analyze, canteen, limestone, paleontologist. In class we’ll also work on synonyms & antonyms. No Spelling homework this week!
Math: we are finishing Unit 5 on geometry, focusing on symmetry and the attributes of solid figures. We are making pyramids from straws, and we will compare the different kinds of pyramids. Note the Study Guide: students are expected to know the names & characteristics of flat and solid geometric shapes, and be able to demonstrate understanding of geometric vocabulary: line segment, square corner, parallel, symmetry, vertex, face, edge.
Social Studies: Unit 5 is on “America’s Past”. This week our focus will be on the Colonial and Revolutionary War period. Next week’s book reports on that period will augment our class reading & discussions!
Science: The students will get use the Scientific Method as they have fun molding clay to explore shape as a factor of buoyancy!
Think Science Fair… how will you collect your data? Will you use a list or a chart? To display it, will you use a bar graph? This week I will teach students how to make a bar graph.
Homework: Have you read through the questions to prompt your hypothesis for our Science Fair??
Daily: read aloud for 20 minutes and fill in your February Book It calendar; There will be Home Links most every night, due the next day; practice your spelling, & vocabulary (for both reading & geometry); practice your basic math facts (use flash cards??)
Due tomorrow: any Feb book report story maps that weren’t turned in today! Home Link 5.9
For Friday: be ready for reading, vocabulary & math tests (no spelling this week!); Turn in your Science Fair hypothesis (the back page of green packet)
Saturday, come with friends & family to Longfellow’s Fun Fair, noon – 4! (It’ll be the first one I will miss as I have out-of-town company for the weekend.)
Due next week: If you didn’t give your book report this week, we’ll expect it next week.
Tests next week: Wed—Fossil vocabulary; Thurs – Social Studies, Unit 5 (vocabulary flash cards are also attached, but memorizing these is less important than the reading & geometry vocabulary, since the social studies test will be open-book); Friday – Timed test on 100 basic addition and basic subtraction facts, Science quiz on “Sink & Float”.
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