December 16-18

Archway Cicero Second Grade Newsletter

Week of December 16, 2019

Greetings, parents of second grade!

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Half Day 12:10 release Cumulative Review for Math Magnet Test Return ALL library books	Half Day 12:10 release Return ALL library books Cumulative Math Quiz	Half Day 12 :10 release	No School ~ Winter Break	No School ~ Winter Break

Announcements:

Please make sure that you email your student’s teacher if you plan for your child to miss school leading up to winter break.  We will do our best to deliver any assessments early to ensure they receive accurate quarter two grades. 

Parent teacher conferences will be held on January 6th and 7th.  See your scholar’s teacher with any questions.

There will also be no tutoring this upcoming week, for those students who have been attending Wednesday/Friday.

As the weather (and our classrooms) becomes cool, school dress code states that students may wear a Cicero uniform sweater/sweatshirt or a solid navy sweater inside (no hoodies, please).  They may wear other types of jackets and sweatshirts outside at recess.  We will be enforcing this dress code policy more strictly. Please make sure your scholar has a dress-code appropriate sweater as the classrooms get chilly during the day.

Please send your student with a healthy snack and lunch to help him or her be successful throughout the day in the classroom.  We have noticed that students who have highly-processed and sugary meals have difficulty concentrating in class and regulating behavior, especially in the afternoon.

Academics

Math	We will review all semester one concepts including place value, addition, subtraction, measurement, multiplication and division. We will review our learning on monday with a test on Tuesday. Please send the 2B book to school with your scholar for quarter 3. *Ask your child to sing you our 3’s multiplication facts song to the tune of Jingle Bells!
Reading	When we come back from winter break, please send our next book Little House in the Big Woods, with your student.
Poetry	We will continue to work on our project week poem, The Star Spangled Banner.  Please practice this poem over the break so that your student arrives in January ready to recite! All students in the grade level will recite the poem collectively on January 9th.  Students will recite in small groups for the class individually and may earn extra points if they attempt an individual recitation.
Language Arts	This week, students will be reviewing everything that we have covered in our greek myths unit.
Spalding	We will be reviewing handwriting this week, and will review all 70 phonograms.
Science	We will wrap up our unit of magnets with a test on Monday. Your scholar will have their binder to study over the weekend. For the test they need to define terms including magnetic, nonmagnetic, poles, attract and repel.
History & Geography	There will be no history this week.

Best,

The Second Grade Team

Project Week Poem

The Star-Spangled Banner

By Francis Scott Key


O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,  
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?  
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,  
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming;  
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;  
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave  
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?  
 
On that shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,  
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,  
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?  
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,  
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;  
‘Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!  
 
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore  
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion  
A home and a country should leave us no more?  
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,  
From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave;  
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave  
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!  
 
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!  
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land,  
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.  
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just.  
And this be our motto— “In God is our trust; "
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave  
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

December 9-13

Archway Cicero Second Grade Newsletter

Week of December 9, 2019

Greetings, parents of second grade!

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading Groups		Early Release at 1:40	Reading Groups Magnet Quiz

Announcements:

After Winter Break we will begin Little House in the Big Woods for literature and the Singapore 2B workbook for math. Please send these books with your child to school upon our return.

Please make sure that you email your student’s teacher if you plan for your child to miss school leading up to winter break.  These days are very important and students may miss crucial content instruction and assessments.

As the weather (and our classrooms) becomes cool, school dress code states that students may wear a Cicero uniform sweater/sweatshirt or a solid navy sweater inside (no hoodies, please).  They may wear other types of jackets and sweatshirts outside at recess.  We will be enforcing this dress code policy more strictly beginning this week. Please make sure your scholar has a dress-code appropriate sweater as the classrooms get chilly during the day.

Please send your student with a healthy snack and lunch to help him or her be successful throughout the day in the classroom.  We have noticed that students who have highly-processed and sugary meals have difficulty concentrating in class and regulating behavior, especially in the afternoon.

Academics

Math	We will continue our study of Multiplication. When we come back from break, please send the 2B workbook with your student.
Reading	Students will continue reading various Greek myths. When we come back from winter break, please send our next book Little House in the Big Woods, with your student.
Poetry	We will begin to work on our project week poem, The Star Spangled Banner.
Language Arts	The students will continue to review writing in complete sentences and nouns and verbs. In writing, we will continue to work on copywork and dictation. Students are now encouraged to spell all their words correctly in dictation, as many of the words are those we have covered in Spalding.
Spalding	We will be learning 10 new words on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We will review on Thursday and test on Friday.
Science	We will continue our study of magnets with a test on Thursday.
History & Geography	We will continue learning about the Constitution this week.

Best,

The Second Grade Team