I enjoyed the time last week to meet with you & your child; we had good progress to celebrate, and set some fine goals. I have typed them out and attached them to your child’s take-home folder, for easy reference and frequent reminder.
This week we read “Monster Tracks”, a “how to” book… we will read, and then follow the directions to make our own fake (or simulated) fossil. Then together we will read and discuss biographies of both Lincoln and Washington. Therefore, we will not have a reading test on Friday. However, all students will be expected to know the vocabulary words for our Unit Test: instructions, mold, clue, prehistoric. All of this week’s spelling words use the consonant blends /br/ & /fr/. The workbook includes some fun work with analogies.
Math: I’ve noticed that some of the difficulty students are having in our geometry unit is that they are not reading the questions carefully. Parents, it would help if you would check over your child’s Home Link, to make sure s/he is reading & thinking carefully. Thank you to all who brought in 3-D objects for our “Shape Museum”! We are moving into solid, ie 3-D, geometry, learning even more new vocabulary: vertex, face, edge, as well as prism, sphere, cylinder, sphere, pyramid, cone.
Social Studies: We will discuss history & culture as together we read biographies of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. [Happy B’day to both as we have no school next Monday!]
Science: We will do a number of science experiments this week, practicing for the Science Fair! We’ll make hypotheses, design experiments, collect data and draw conclusions… mostly about buoyancy.
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: “Lambshead Home Link”; bring in a small item you would like to use to make a fossil
Due Wednesday: Spelling workbook pages 90-93 (&/or challenge sentences)
For Friday: be ready for spelling test
Due next Monday: Story map on the book you are reading for your February book report. Let me know whether you are reading fiction, biography, or other nonfiction, so I can give you the appropriate story map. Orators for the Black History Museum need to do their oratory for their book report by Fri, 2/19.
Coming… busy weeks as we go through February:
• Fri, 2/19: due date for Science Fair hypothesis (the back page of green packet)
• Sat, 2/20: Longfellow’s Fun Fair, starting at noon. Please consider donating items for the 2nd grade raffle basket, which has a theme of Family Reading.
• Wed, 2/24, at 6:30 PM: Spring Arts Fiesta for 2nd graders; Note: 2nd graders are performing & need to be here by 6:15… parents’ bonus is to get a good seat in the auditorium, or to browse the 2nd grade artwork in the hallways!
• Fri 2/26: due date for Science Fair planner
• Fri, 2/26: Night At the Museum – come see a number of students from our class participating in the Oratory (telling us about a notable African-American, “in character”); Julian & others will also be performing African dancing and drumming.
I’m glad the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl… and my favorite spectator sport is just ahead, the Olympics!
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