CES Second Grade Newsletter
Marking Period 4
WELCOME TO THE FOURTH MARKING PERIOD!
It is hard to believe that we have reached the final marking period of the school year! We see lots of hard work and improvement every day! Please continue to check your child's agenda and sign it every night. The agenda includes homework information, and other important reminders.
HOMEWORK
Just a reminder that students have reading, spelling, and math homework every night. Students will receive one math page at the beginning of the week. They have until Friday to complete it. You may choose to do one problem each night, or complete it all in one or two nights. Please also practice spelling words every night. We sent home a list of fun ideas for practicing spelling at the beginning of the year. If you need another copy, please contact your child's teacher. We encourage you to read with your child every night. Your child can read to you, or you can read to your child.
GRADING
FOURTH MARKING PERIOD CURRICULUM INFO.
READING:
During the fourth marking period, second graders will continue to engage in choral, echo, and partner reading to build comprehension and fluency. They will continue to respond orally to comprehension questions and will respond in writing to some questions. Students will read a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts. Students will continue to interact with a variety of texts through interactive read aloud facilitated by the teacher, partner, or independent reading.
MATH:
In the last marking period, students will be introduced to collecting, representing, and interpreting data. Students will practice measurement skills to generate measurement data. They will measure objects, and display the measurement data in a line plot. Lastly, they will investigate attributes of shapes and use them to identify and draw triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
HANDWRITING:
Students will continue to build fluency in printing by writing words, sentences, and paragraphs.
SPELLING:
Second graders will continue to learn grade appropriate vocabulary and words with the following spelling patterns: /a/ /au/ /aw/ /al/ /sh/ /ch/, s and x with plurals, irregular plurals, and y-ie plurals
WRITING:
Students will complete an opinion writing unit and will learn to write a compare and contrast response through shared and modeled writing lessons. They will also complete a culminating book review.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
In Unit 3, students will learn about basic economic principles such as goods, services, making wise choices with their money, various markets for buying goods, and the production process. Students will also broaden their knowledge of how cultures are similar and different. In Unit 4, students will learn about how things change over time. Students will learn about timelines and how they visually show change over time. Then, students will investigate how transportation and communication devices have changed as technology has advanced over time.
UPCOMING EVENTS
4/22: Student Led Conferences
4/26: MAP ELA Testing
4/28: MAP Math Testing
5/4: ABC Countdown to Summer begins (More info to come)
5/6: Early Dismissal (1:30)
5/27: Fun and Fitness Day
5/30: No School (Memorial Day)
6/10: Last Day for Students (Early Dismissal)
As always, thank you for your continued support. If you need anything, feel free to contact us:
Mrs. Jordan Cohn: jacohn@ccps.org
Mr. Raymond Nuneviller: rjnuneviller@ccps.org