Update April 29th

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Hello Wonderful Families,
I am so excited to announce, that our class has earned the AR trophy for the months of March and April!  During these 2 months, our class earned over 305 AR points. I am so PROUD of all of my little readers! Keep reading, the last day to earn AR points for this trimester is May 31st.
For 2nd grade, you need to complete 6-8 hours of community service.  Think about great ways to serve the community in which you live or go to school.  Community service is a great way to make a positive difference. Community Service Projects will be due THIS FRIDAY May 3rd.  A handout outlining what is required went home at the beginning of April. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to message me.
We will be working on writing our habitat Informational reports in class.  Each student will be responsible to recreating their animal habitat by creating a diorama.  Dioramas will be due Friday, May 17th. A planning sheet went home last week with the research pages.  Please do not turn in dioramas prior to the 17th. We don’t have a space to store them in the classroom.
2nd grade will be hosting our Habitat Museum on Friday, May 24th starting at 12:45pm.  All parents are welcome to come visit our classrooms during this time and learn about the four habitats we have all been working on.  A parent square message will be sent out as this day gets closer, with more details.
Just a few updates for the coming week:
This week in Math:
Topic 14
  • Picture graphs
  • Drawing conclusions from graphs
  • Math practices and problem solving
  • Assessments


This week in Language Arts:
Reading:  words and phrases, images, ask and answer questions
Grammar: Prefixes
Spelling: au,aw,al, augh
  • author
  • awful
  • caught
  • laundry
  • baseball
  • walnut
  • daughter
  • crawl
  • haul
  • drawn


Vocabulary:
  • cooperate: work toward the same goal
  • include: to take in
  • gust: a burst of wind
  • classify: to arrange
  • settle: to make quiet
Writing: Informational Writing
  • Drafting
  • Writing a lead
  • Topic and concluding sentences
  • Word choice
This week in Science:
Science: Desert Habitat
Homework: There will be no Find the Evidence with week, students will instead work on completing their visual displays for their community service projects.   There will be no math homework on Thursday and Friday due to assessments. All other math homework will be optional this week, so students can complete their projects .  20 minutes of reading each night is still required.
Looking forward to another great week!

Alison

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