Another Short Week!

Good morning 2A! 

Here comes another short week with a field trip, too!

Field Trip: Our field trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum is on Thursday, March 29! We will be leaving at 8:15 am and returning around 2:00. Please be sure your child brings the following: 

• Sack lunch (everything should be able to be thrown out after eating) 

• Disposable water bottle 

• Wear tennis shoes and sunblock 

• Hat & sunglasses (optional)

Here is what's coming up this week in 2A:

Literature: Sarah, Plain and Tall, has come to an end! We will review important events we read about. Please send your child to school with a copy of our last novel: Little House in the Big Woods. Don't forget that book reports are due April 9th!

Writing and Grammar: We will continue to practice all parts of speech by classifying sentences and apply these skills to our writing. Our story for next week is from Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jeansson. We will focus on the use of commas in direct quotes and how adverbs modify verbs.

Spalding Words:
Monday: importance, important, carried, carry, loss, fortune, empire, mayor, wait, degree
Tuesday: prison, engine, visit, guest, guessed, guess, department, obtain, family, favor
Wednesday: REVIEW *No School Friday, Test Thursday

Math: We are officially completing our unit over time and will take our unit assessment on Wednesday. Be sure to keep an out for a study guide coming home on Tuesday to review with your child before the test. Thank you!

History: Your child will learn about early jobs in the wild west this week: ranchers, cowboys, and miners. We will also talk about the negative impact westward expansion had on the Native American tribes living in those territories. As we wrap up this unit, we will travel to the Pioneer Living History Museum! 

Science: Our exploration of magnets will continue as we investigate magnetic fields through using iron filings. We will also explore how magnets attract and repel.

Warmest,

Mr. High

4th Quarter - Here We Come!

Dear 2A Families,

I hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break! 

Here is what's coming up: 

Field Trip Time!
Our field trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum is on Thursday, March 29! We will be leaving at 8:15 am and returning around 2:00. Be on the lookout for a permission slip coming home in your child's homework folder. If you are interested in being a chaperone this fun field trip, please email me by by Friday, March 23rd. Please be sure your child brings the following: 

• Sack lunch (everything should be able to be thrown out after eating)

• Disposable water bottle

• Wear tennis shoes and sunblock

• Hat & sunglasses (optional)

Literature: After Spring Break we will read Chapters 7-9 of Sarah, Plain and Tall. We will talk about what it means to be homesick and learn what the word "ayuh" means. We'll also find out why Sarah wants to learn to drive the wagon.

Writing and Grammar: We will jump back into paragraph writing when we return from Spring Break!

Spalding Words This Week (20 words only due to No School on 3/19):
Tuesday: enjoy, awful, awesome, awe, usual, usually, complaint, complained, complain, auto
Wednesday: vacation, beautiful, beauty, flight, travel, rapid, repair, troubling, trouble, entrance

Math: Telling time will continue! See if your child can tell time on a digital clock at home. We've been practicing time after the hour and time before the hour.

Science: We will start a new unit about MAGNETS! See if your child can notice the many ways magnets are used at home.

History: Upon our return from Spring Break, we will learn about why and how pioneers traveled west. Your child will discuss the Oregon Trail, California gold rush, and the Transcontinental Railroad. Ask your child how the Pony Express worked. Our Pioneers are gearing up for their field trip to the Pioneer Living History Museum on March 29!

Warmest, 

Mr. High

It's almost Spring!

Dear 2A,

Can you believe it's almost the end of the 3rd quarter? It feels like this year is flying by! We had quite a busy week this week, but it was so worth it and also a lot of fun!

Here is what's coming up this last week before Spring Break:

Literature: What has your child been sharing with you about Sarah, Plain and Tall? Next week we will learn more about the characters through reading chapters 4-6. We are working on context clues with new vocabulary words, and we will write an advertisement (WANTED Ad) for someone we would love to have in our own life. This assignment is sure to be quite interesting :-).

Writing and Grammar: We will read an excerpt from The Elephant's Child and practice classifying sentences.

Spelling Words Next Week:Monday: holiday, holy, knee, lemon, lying, lie, nails, needle, nobody, oarTuesday: palace, penny, regular, repeats, sailor, sentence, shining, shine, surface, sweeping, sweepsWednesday: thief, waist, waste, waiting, weary (weak), writing, writer, write, spend 

Math: We begin a new unit this week on time! We will begin to tell time to each 5 minute interval, the 
quarter and half hour, and we will also discuss the importance of being able to tell time. "Better late than never!"

Science: We are finishing up our simple machines unit with a closer look at some machines that your child might be familiar with around your neighborhood! If they have a bicycle, skateboard, or other ways to get around, have them point out the parts they have learned in class. They are all connected! 

History: Your children took home a study guide for the War of 1812 on Friday. Please help them study for Monday's test. We will be starting a new unit on Wednesday! Welcome to the Wild West! We will begin our study of Americans moving west. Ask your pioneer about different ways people traveled during this time.

Side note: Book Reports are due Monday! We will also assign new chapter books and books next week. :)

Sincerely,

Mr. High