Second Grade Newsletter



Second Grade Newsletter

October 29th – November 2nd

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Reading

African American Inventors a biography by Jim Haskins

Pg. 290-310

Skills – vocabulary, reading comprehension, myths, compare and contrast, inflectional endings, suffixes, time lines, fiction, nonfiction.

Open Response: List three ways from the story in which Sarah Goode and Patricia Bath are alike.

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Reading Vocabulary

design – a plan for how to make something

allowed – means to let happen, or made something to happen

instrument – is a tool or machine made for a special purpose

invented - to make a new thing that did not exist before

powerful - very strong

products – are things made by people or machines

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Spelling/Phonics

Words with st, sw, sp, sm

1. store 10. stick

2. step 11. smile

3. swing 12. sweep

4. stand 13. stop

5. spot 14. stopped

6. still

7. story

8. swim

9. state

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Math We will begin our chapter on Numbers to 1,000. We will cover place value,

comparing and ordering numbers, pattern counting, using data from a chart,

before after and between, mental math, and estimating sums. Continue practicing

flash cards on doubles, adding nine, one, two, and zero.

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Things to Remember

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• Halloween parties will be October 31st. Don’t forget your $3.00.

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English

We will continue Unit 2 Nouns. We will cover types of nouns, possessive nouns, capitalizing proper nouns, compound nouns, plural nouns, and pronouns.

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Social Studies

We will continue Unit 4 “We the People”

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Homework: A Supreme Court Case

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