Second Grade Newsletter
February 5-9, 2024
Schedules
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Monday, February 5th- Day 3
Tuesday, February 6th- Day 4
Wednesday, February 7th- Day 5
Thursday, February 8th- Day 6
Friday, February 9th- Day 1
*Remember on PE days, your child needs to be wearing tennis shoes.
**It is important to remind your child to bring their library books back to school on the days we have library.
Important Information and Upcoming Events
New month New Reading Log-. Please remember to have them read for at least 20 minutes at home before completing the dated log. Students only need to complete the log for school days, but we always love to see more reading happening on days off/weekends!
- A note from our School Counselors:
Kindness Week 2024 Letter Home (English)
Kindness Week 2024 Letter Home (Spanish)
Please continue to:
Provide "brain-food" for our class snack times and reusable water bottles daily.
Check and clear out red folders daily. This is a tool to communicate our day of learning and your child's current progress, as well as share important dates coming up for PTA and other Conway events.
To send a weather appropriate layer with your student. We will continue to go outside for recess for as long as possible and do not want children to be cold outside.
- As always, you can contact your child's teacher for questions, concerns, wonders, ANYTHING! Do not hesitate! We are a team to make sure your child's 2nd grade year is the best year yet :)
Learning this week
ELA
- read and apply long i with letter patterns with y and igh
- expand vocabulary when reading.
- use knowledge of prefixes and suffixes. Suffixes-er and est
- read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction texts
- recognize characteristics of a biography
- recognize the chronological order of events
- identify text features
- write a short narrative story.
- revise narrative writings by checking for complete sentences, punctuation, and capitalization
- compare narrative to a mentor text in discussing story elements and characters point of view
Math
- estimate sums and differences
- determine sums and differences using various methods with regrouping.
- create/solve single-step and two-step practical problems involving addition and subtraction
Social Studies
- describe how the contributions of selected individuals changed the lives of Americans, with emphasis on George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, and Rosa Parks.
Contact Your Teacher
Ms. Megan Acker
Mrs. MaryKate Coulter
coultermn@staffordschools.net
Mrs. Jenna Sypolt (Shymansky)
shymanskyje@staffordschools.net
Mrs. Olivia Berry
berryoj@staffordschools.net,
Mrs. Cameron Blankenship
blankenshipch@staffordschools.net,
Mrs. Julie Leonard
leonardje1@staffordschools.net,
Mrs. Brooke Pins
pinsba@staffordschools.net,
Ms. Dawn Schwenk
Website: https://staffordschools.instructure.com/courses/15783
Location: 105 Primmer House Rd, Fredericksburg, VA 22405, USA
Phone: (540) 361-1455