Archway Cicero
Second Grade Newsletter
Week of February 24, 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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Reading Groups
Simple Machine
Test
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Math Quiz
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Upcoming Dates:
Field Trip!
Our field trip to Pioneer Village is on April 2nd.
We are in need of
six chaperones per class. Please email
your child’s teacher if you are interested.
Chaperones must be fingerprint cleared. If the number of volunteers exceeds
the number of spots we will use a lottery to determine who will chaperone.
Please make sure
that you pay the field trip fee using the link below.
Westward Expansion Day!
Westward
Expansion Day is coming up on March 4th.
If you are interested in donating supplies or volunteering, please use
the signup link below:
Students will be
allowed to wear either jeans and a pioneer shirt, or a pioneer dress. They can
also wear cowboy boots. If they are not wearing cowboy boots, they need to wear
their regular school shoes. We will be
outside, so feel free to also send in your student with cowboy hats, bonnets,
or other accessories. No weapons please.
Students will not be required to wear their uniforms underneath their
outfit, as long as it covers everything
that the uniform does. For outfits that do not do so, each student is
required to wear a shirt/skirt/leggings underneath that are uniform code. A
good rule of thumb if you are unsure about your student’s outfit is to send in
his or her uniform with them in their backpack.
We are looking
forward to this special event! This
event will be volunteer only, and closed to additional visitors.
Review
Questions for Westward Expansion:
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What was the gold
rush? Gold was discovered in California
in 1848. People from around the world came to California in order to try to
“strike it rich”
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What was the Pony
Express? A horse and rider relay system
used to deliver mail across the US (over 2,000 miles) in under 10 days.
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How did the
Transcontinental Railroad affect Westward Expansion? It allowed more people to travel back and forth across the country
faster, increasing expansion.
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What were some
occupations of people living in the West? Miners,
Ranchers, Farmers
Academics
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Math
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We will
start our unit on identifying and counting money.
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Reading
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This week we will continue reading Little House in the Big Woods together in class.
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Poetry
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This week we will begin the poem“Buffalo
Dusk”. We will recite
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Language Arts
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We will focus on the homophones there, their and they’re and
proper usage. We will practice using
these words correctly through activities this week, and in all writing going forward. We will continue to work on copywork and
dictation in conjunction with history, and begin writing our own summaries.
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 to add new cursive words to our weekly word list.
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Science
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We will be wrapping up our unit on Simple
Machines
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History & Geography
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This week we will continue our unit on Westward
Expansion. This week we will learn about the experience of Native Americans
in the United States during the time of Westward Expansion.
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Best,
The Second Grade Team
