Academic

2nd Grade News Vocabulary

April 6, 2017 quarter past

quarter till

half past

Hello 2nd grade families,

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I hope youve had a great week so far. horizontal

The students have been working so hard, and are symmetry

looking forward to Spring Break.

determine

cause and effect

Today I will be sending home Quarter 3 report cards as point of view

well as a Spring Break Packet. The packet is optional, but is a mood

great way to maintain skills over the break. Spring Break

theme

Packets are due Wednesday, April 19. As an added bonus,

homonym

students who turn in their packets on the 19th will receive a

reward.
homophone

suffix

Our Pourquoi Tales for Kids book was shipped out prefix

yesterday for printing. If you ordered a copy we should expect opinion

them back around the middle of May. If you did not order a erosion

copy of our class book, but would like to please let me know.
weathering

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End of year MAP testing will begin the week after we

return from Spring Break. We will be taking the Language Arts cumulus

test on Friday, April 21 and the Math test the following Friday, stratus

April 26.
cumulonimbus

landslide

Friday April 21 TMSA will be hosting a Daddy Daughter displacement

Dance! Fliers were sent home in your childs report card

envelope. I hope you have a wonderful evening. If you have any Upcoming Events
questions or concerns please dont hesitate to ask.
4/10-4/14 Spring Break
4/21 Dress Down
4/21 Daddy Daughter
Dance
What We are learning this week:
In reading we have been learning about inferencing and theme. We also learned about haiku
poems and will be adding a few to our Poetry Books. In grammar we have been reviewing using a
comma to separate items in a list, t wo adjectives, and in compound sentences. We have also been
learning about homophones and homonyms. In math we have finished our unit on collecting data
and have started learning about 1, 2, and 3 dimensional shapes. In Science we have been talking
about how erosion and weathering play a part in shaping the Earths surface. Tomorrow we will
build a protective barrier on a mock hillside to prevent a landslide from destroying a
neighborhood bellow. In Social Studies we have been reviewing mapping skills and have starting
talking about goods vs ser vices and consumer vs. producer.