Archway Cicero
Second Grade Newsletter
Week of January 27, 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
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War of 1812
Test
Addition and
subtraction Quiz
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Reading Groups
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Tutoring
Invites go out this weekend! Be on the lookout!
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Announcements:
Please review the Simple Machine project
packet with your child. It is due
Thursday, February 20th.
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. 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.
We are still in great need of reading volunteers.
The reading groups program cannot work without your volunteers
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
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Math
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This week we will continue with mental addition
and subtraction with a quiz on Wednesday. We will pick up on Thursday with
multiplication and division by 5’s and 10’s
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Reading
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We will continue reading Little House in The
Big Woods
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Poetry
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This week we will begin our new poem, “The Hayloft.”
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Language Arts
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The students will continue to learn about
pronouns. In writing, we will be writing our own topic sentences and
identifying the parts of a paragraph. Students are now encouraged to spell
all their words correctly in dictation, as many of the words are those we
have covered in Spalding.
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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 continue our practice with cursive. This week you will begin
to see some cursive words as part of the nightly homework - students should
write these words in cursive rather than in print on their homework page.
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Science
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This week we will continue our science unit on
Simple Machines. Please continue to help your scholar with their Simple
Machine Projects due 2/20/2020
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History & Geography
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This week we will do a review of the War of
1812 on Tuesday and have a test on Wednesday.
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Best,
The Second Grade Team
