Upcoming 2nd Grade Community Service Project
As part of our good citizenship study, we’ve read about how to help end hunger in communities. The 2nd grade team would like to extend this to a community service project for the kids to participate in. We will be holding a CANNED FOOD DRIVE the week of 10/13-10/16. Please encourage your child to bring to school a non perishable, unopened food item to donate. To find out more, ask your child for details or visit the Capital Area Food Bank’s website at http://austinfoodbank.org/get involved. There you can find a list of high need items and other ways your family can help. As the holiday season approaches, it is a great time to volunteer as a family. Teachers will donate all items to the food bank the following week. Thanks for your support!
Field Trip
Our Mexic-Arte Study Trip is coming up on 10/23.
10:00-11:30 Mexic-arte tour and activities
11:30-12:30 play and picnic at Zilker Park
For students to go we need back:
* $3.00 student entrance fee
* orange permission forms signed
* both are DUE by Friday, 10/16
Thanks to parents that want to chaperon! We will not be collecting adult fees, you can pay at the museum doors.
It's going to be an exciting study trip!
Writing
This week we will continue to learn about sentence fluency. Our focus will be using variety in our sentences. We will also discuss word choice, and give “tired words” a rest by brainstorming synonyms and juicy words to spice up our writing.
Reading
This week in reading students will describe similarities and differences in the plots and settings of several works by the same author. We will describe main characters in fiction stories, including their traits, motivations, and feelings. We are going to read books by Leo Lionni. Students will compare and contrast the stories and discuss how the author might be inspired or get his/her ideas.
Please remember to read 100 minutes a week at home. If students read 20 minutes at least 5 days a week, they will reach this goal. Challenge your child to use more than one strategy they’ve learned in class during their at home reading time.
Math
This week is all about time! We will practice distinguishing between the hour and minute hand and telling time to the minute. We will match up analog clocks with the digital time and play a fun game called Time Bump. Later in the week, we will start learning about special time language. We will learn the meaning of phrases like “quarter till” and “half past.”
Help your child at home by having them read your watch or switch your cell phone into analog mode!
Social Studies:
Our secret service missions were great! It was so neat to see our class in action around the community and at home. This coming week we will focus in on cultures. We will compare the US and Mexico and also discuss the significance of artifacts and symbols from different cultures. Our study on Dia de los Muertos is coming up as our next cultural celebration to study.
Science:
We are going to complete our study of forms of energy. We have studied light, heat and sound. We looked at how these forms of energy can affect objects. This week we will review and assess our learning before moving on to objects and patterns in the sky.
Your child can also learn more about energy here:
http://www.eschooltoday.com/energy/kinds-of-energy/all-about-energy.html
Question of the week: Who was Cleopatra?
Reminders:
10/12 Student holiday
10/28 Early Release Day
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