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2nd Grade News Vocabulary

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December 7, 2016
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I hope you are having a great week. Winter break is fast text features

approaching and the kiddos have enjoyed traveling around the world glossary

during our Holidays Around the World unit. This week we will travel

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to the Netherlands, Sweden, and back to Mexico. Over break

students will need to complete a country report to be presented cause and effect

during 2nd Grades Multicultural Fair on January 4th. I would like

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them to pick a country of their choice, but encouraging them to topic sentence

research a country they may not know much about to extend their supporting details

learning. Please see the attached PDF for more information on the
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requirements.
Quarter 2 Progress Reports and a movie permission slip will
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be sent home with your child today. If either does not make its way function

home for some reason please let me know so I can send home
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another copy. Students who bring in a new pair of pajamas to germinate

donate to our Pajama Drive will be allowed to wear their pajamas to

school on the last day before break. D
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If you did not receive an email from me this week regarding hypocotyl

conferences it is because I have no academic/behavioral concerns at seed coat

this time. However, I would like to meet with all families if possible in seedling

January once MAP data has been collected to discuss your childs
growth and my plan for them as we prepare for 3rd grade. If you
have any questions or concerns please don;t hesitate to ask. Upcoming Events

12/8 Conferences
12/9 Dress Down

What we are learning: 12/16 Pajama Day

12/19- 1/2 Winter Break

In Reading we are comparing and contrasting details from a story and will begin to use this skill to
compare two dierent versions of the same fable or folktale. We have also been learning about cause
and eect. In grammar we have been learning about the spelling rules of plural nouns and have been
learning about past, present, and future tense verbs. In writing we are strengthening our skills as
authors and have been writing How Tos with a focus on a strong topic sentence, using transitional
words to tell the sequence of steps, and a closing statement. In Math we have been working on 2 and 3
digit addition. I know some of our strategies may seem confusing or frustrating and is not the way we
learned, but it is apart of Common Core and I just remind the students that theses are all just dierent
ways of adding numbers together. In Science we have been learning about pollination and seed
dispersal in preparation to help us build a device to spread seeds over a large plot of land. In Social
Studies we have been learning about celebrations around the world.