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 Hello Second Grade Families,

Upcoming Dates

April 20th: No School - teachers have inservice

May 8th: School Forest Visit - AM. I will be asking for chaperones soon! During this visit, I am anticipating having some representatives from Green Lake County join us for our macroinvertebrate pond study AND to teach us a bit about drones!

May 27th: Field trip to Barlow Planetarium and Timber Rattlers game! More info coming soon! 

Homework:

~ Math Sheet 5-5

~Read about 15 minutes per night - Please continue to ask your child to reread the decodable texts that come home on Thursdays. 

~Check planners for notes and reminders.

What are we learning?

Character Strong: Week 3 of Cooperation 

ELA 

Module 8: Time to Grow! (we are in week 3)

HELLO, FAMILY!

Over the next 3-4 weeks, our class will be learning about what plants need to grow, thrive, and survive.

We will read about a plant’s basic needs, how those needs are met, and what happens if they are not met. Children will also write a procedural text that describes chronological steps to follow in order to complete an activity.

BRING IT HOME! Learning fun for the whole family!

Big Idea Words. Reinforce these important topic words when you are reading or talking with your child: fertilize, germinate, survive.

Try to incorporate questions like these into everyday conversations:

·        Why do you think it’s a good idea to fertilize plants?

·        If you had a garden, what types of seeds would you want to germinate?

·        How can people help plants survive?

Let’s Read Together. Make a special time and place to read with your child every day.

During this module about plants, try these activities during your reading time together:

·        Think about the story setting. Tell if you think plants would survive there.

·        Read outside one day and talk about how the plants’ needs are being met.

·        Model making and fixing mistakes. Misread a word when you read with your child, stop, ask your child if that made sense, and then reread correctly.

Word Play. Play with words to help develop skills that are important for reading.

Week 1: Word Search

Find words in your daily reading that have or, our, or ore in them. Say the words aloud together.

Week 2: Round Robin

Take turns naming words that have eer or ear in them. Keep going until you run out of words.

Week 3: Let's Work!

Work together to make a list of words that have or or ar that sounds like er, as in work and dollar.

We will assess Module 8 later this week and start Module 9!

Math

We will continue working in Unit 5 which focuses on telling time and interpreting graphs. Please help your child practice telling time and review counting money at home. As you could see on their Unit 4 tests that came home Friday, we have worked with all of the coins now, and dollar bills and should be able to count any combination of those. 

Science

We are working on Plants lesson 3 which focuses on plant needs and how those can vary from one species to the next. We will germinate radish seeds! 

Mrs. Naparalla

It was great to walk into town last Friday and see the lake sturgeon spawning in the Fox River. We even saw a water snake AND a floating seed that looked just like the spiky seeds from our recent science lesson! 

River Bank Video - Sturgeon Viewing