Academic

2nd Grade News Vocabulary

January 11, 2018 •
•
regrouping

number line

• vertical

• horizontal

Dear 2nd grade families, symmetry

•
• fable

Happy New Year! Wishing you and your family lots of • moral

happiness, love and success for 2018. This week seemed

• determine

to fly by. I hope you’ve had a wonderful week so far. I • cause and effect

have enjoyed hearing about what you did over winter • apostrophe

break, and the excitement of the snow day last week. • pronoun

Thankfully we have enough instruction hours built into the • topic sentence

school year and the days will not need to be made-up. • supporting details

• closing statement

There is no school Monday, January 15 in • form

observance of Martin Later King Day. Friday, January 19 is •

function

a half day. Dismissal will begin at 11:15. • pollination

• germinate

• disperse

On Friday, February 2nd we will be going on a field

• inspire

trip to Marbles Museum. Permission slips will be sent home

• segregation

soon.
• boycott

• equality

I hope you have a wonderful evening, as always if

you have questions or concerns please do not hesitate to

Upcoming Events
contact me. 1/15 No School

1/19 Early Release
1/27 End of Quarter 2
1/28 Chinese New Year
What we are learning: 2/2 Marbles Museum

We have began reading different types of folktales and using Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then as a way to
retell the story and help us understand the moral of each story. We will also be using this skill to compare
two different versions of the same fable or folktale. In grammar we have been reviewing the spelling rules
of plural nouns. We have also begin learning about using pronouns to replace a common or proper noun in a
sentence. In writing we will strengthen our skills as authors with a focus on a strong topic sentence, using
transitional words to tell the sequence of steps, and a closing statement. In Math we will be reviewing 2 and
3 digit subtraction with and without regrouping and regrouping across a zero. In social Studies we will learn
about the life and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and will begin learning about Chinese New
Year. In science we have FINALLY started our unit on space.