Second Grade News
January 4-12
I hope you and your family
had a blessed holiday season. It is good
to be back to school with the second graders.
Reading: This
week our reading genre is poetry, and we will be reading rhyming poems about
animals. We will learn that a rhyming poem
has rhyming words, and the lines in a rhyming poem have a rhythm and
beats. Poems also express the thoughts
and feelings of the poet. As we read
poems, we will look for details to explain what each poet loves about the
animal in the poem.
Sight Words: By the end of
the week your child should be able read these quickly and easily. Please post this letter in a handy spot (on
the fridge, etc.) and have your child practice reading through these words a
couple of times each day.
bird
far
field
flower
grow
leaves
light
orange
ready
until
Spelling Words: The spelling test will be on
Tuesday, January 12
scratch
scrape
spring
throne
stripe
strange
shred
shrub
splash
split
catch
sting
far
flower
until
Vocabulary: Please use these words in conversation with
your child as we are learning their meaning.
behave
flapping
express
feather
poem
rhyme
rhythm
word choice
Math: We will be learning how to use rulers to
measure in feet, inches, and centimeters.
You may want to get out a ruler and have fun measuring objects around
your home. We will also review telling
time on an analog clock. So, please get
out a clock and help your child practice.
Social Studies: We are beginning a unit on
communities. These are some of the key
concepts we will be studying:
*A community is a place where
people, live, work, and play together.
*Communities have buildings,
businesses, transportation, natural characteristics, and places to have fun.
*Communities have ways to
keep people safe-police officers, fire fighters, and ambulances.
*There are three types of
communities-urban, suburban, and rural.
Reminders:
*We have a new January
reading calendar in our book pockets.
Please read with your child for a few minutes every day. It makes a huge difference, and I am seeing
big reading gains in the students who do this daily.
*Please make sure your child
is dressed for outdoor play at recess-snow pants, boots, hat, mittens, etc.
*Please have your child keep
an extra pair of socks and mittens in his/her backpack. This way your child can change into a dry
pair of socks or mittens if one pair gets wet.
*Shoes, shoes, shoes!
Now that we are wearing boots, it is necessary that your child has shoes
to wear in class. Please make sure they
are packed in the backpack, or your child may keep an extra pair of shoes in
his/her locker.
