Archway Cicero
Second Grade Newsletter
Week of January 13, 2020
Greetings,
parents of second grade!
IMPORTANT DATES
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Reading Groups
Little House in The Big Woods must come to
school!
Scholars need their 2B math workbook.
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Early Release 1:40
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Reading Groups
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½ Half Day 12:10 Release
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Announcements:
Cicero’s
2nd annual Fun Run is upon us! The money
collection days are 1/14, 1/16,
1/21, 1/23, 1/27.
Please see the PSO newsletter for
additional information regarding the Fun Run!
Please have your student read aloud each
night. They should read their leveled book from the red book bag as well as
read from their Science and History notes to review them the night before
assessments. They must bring their books back each day. You should see the
books being changed about once a week. Students may have their books longer if
they forget to bring their book on a reading group day.
As
the weather (and our classrooms) continues to be 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
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Math
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This week we will be starting mental math. We
will use our mental math strategies to add and subtract numbers close to 100.
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Reading
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This week we will begin reading Little House in the Big Woods.
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Poetry
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This week we begin our new poem, Old Ironsides.
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Language Arts
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The students will learn about prounds in
grammar. In writing, we will start learning about the structure of a
paragraph and focus on topic sentences and main ideas.
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Spalding
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We will be learning 10 new words on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday. We will review all 30 words on Thursday, and test on
Friday. We will also start learning cursive lowercase letters.
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Science
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This week we will continue our unit on Simple
Machines. Please be sure to point out any example you see of levers, pulleys,
wheels with axles, wedges, screws and ramps in real life.
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History & Geography
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In History this week we will begin our unit on
the War of 1812.
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Best,
The Second Grade Team
