2nd Grade News

Academic
Vocabulary

April 16, 2018 • regrouping

• addend

Dear 2nd grade families, • communitive property

• decimal point

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are enjoying the warmer • counting on

weather. Family Leadership Night was a huge success! I’m so proud of • fable

Natalie, Jeremiah, Choice, Jonathan, and Zi’dayah for performing, they • central

message

did an outstanding job! Thank you to those that were able to attend. • moral

• interrogative

Weekly homework will begin again this week. Report cards will • exclamatory

becoming home today. If for some reason your child’s report did not • imperative

find its way home please let me know. I will also be sending home • declarative

Scholastic Book Club order forms. I will collect April orders until Friday, • subject

April 27. If you prefer to place your order online our class • predicate

code is J6PN2. If you are interested in placing a SquareOne Art order • compare

please remember the deadline to order is this Friday, April 20. Your • contrast

child’s SquareOne Art was sent home a few weeks ago. •

apostrophe

• possessive noun

This Friday, April 20 is our field trip to the Durham Life & Science • compound word

Museum! The students are very excited. As a reminder if you are • syllables

planning on sending your child with a lunch from home please • rhyming pattern

remember to pack their lunch in a disposable paper or plastic bag. We • stanza

will not have enough space for lunch boxes. Thank you to the parents
who are able to chaperone. You will receive an email from me shortly Upcoming Events
with information for the day of. 4/16 Report Cards
4/20 Field Trip
4/21 Spring Fling
We have started our new PBL. Last week we started brainstorming
4/27 Scholastic Order
and planning our instruments for the sound garden. This week we will
5/4 Field Day
be building and decorating our instruments. I’m looking forward to
seeing what the students will create. I hope you have a wonderful
week, if you have questions or concerns please do not hesitate to
contact me

What we are learning:

In reading we have been focusing on retelling important events and determining the moral or central
message of a fable. In grammar we have been learning about compound words and synonyms. In
Writing we have started writing poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. In Math we have been using
various strategies to add and subtract 3-digit numbers In Science we will begin learning about
weather patterns and the water cycle and we have started our unit on sound..