The Second Grade “Scoop”
Date: December 11
For the Week of: December 14-18
Reminders:
*Dec. 16: Advent Service—Second grade sings! (10:00AM and 7:00PM) Parents and guests are invited to join us in worship. Second graders will meet in our classroom between 6:30 and 6:45PM. Parents may pick up students in our classroom following the service.
*Dec. 18: Early Release@11:30AM; Also, this will be the day of our classroom Christmas party and gift exchange. Mrs. Semroska has graciously agreed to lead the party. We will have a gift exchange as well. Each student may bring a gift in the $5-7 range. Girls will bring a gift for a girl, boys will bring a gift for a boy. Gifts may be brought any day before Friday.
*Dec. 18: Social Studies unit 2 Test. A study guide is enclosed. We will review in class, but students will need to study at home as well.
*Dec. 19-Jan.3: Christmas Break—No School
Spelling:
NO SPELLING WORDS NEXT WEEK.
Memory Work:
NO MEMORY WORK NEXT WEEK.
Math:
We continue to work on 100 addition facts. We have begun working on subtraction facts (2s, and 3s) as well.
Reading:
*NO SIGHT WORDS NEXT WEEK.
*Also, the BookIt program continues this month. Our goal is 15 minutes of reading a day, or 465 total minutes for the month of December. All December calendars are due Monday, January 4, when we return from Christmas breakt. (A calendar for January will be sent home next week Friday, so that students can keep track of their January reading as well.) Students who do complete their reading goal for December will get a certificate for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut! Have your child let me know if he/she needs a new calendar.
English/Language Arts:
We continue to work on explanatory writing and the use of verbs.
Science:
We have begun learning about the earth’s natural resources.
Social Studies:
We took our continents and oceans quiz today (12/11). There is a study guide enclosed for unit 2. This test will be Friday, December 18. We will take the test before our Christmas party so that students will not have to take home a study guide over the break. We will be reviewing in class next week, but students will need to study at home as well. This will be the only “major” homework next week. If your child needs another study guide at any time, please let me know.
On a final note…
*Please continue to check your child’s HOME folder and assignment book each evening.
*Just a reminder that you can access our class blog by going to www.zionmrsbrewer.blogspot.com OR by going to the school website (www.brightonzionlutheran.org), clicking on School, Class Pages, and Mrs. Brewer’s name.
*The students have been working very hard on their songs for the Advent service this Wednesday. We hope to see you there!
In Christ,
Mrs. Brewer
December 11, 2009
Dear Parents,
It’s that time again! We will be having our unit 2 social studies test on Friday, December 18th. We will take it before our Christmas party. We did not want your child to have to study for a test over break, so we thought we would take care of it before break. Like the previous tests, I will read the test out loud, but I will not offer any help. Unit 2 begins on page 66. Much of the test is reading tables and maps, so students need to study those skills as well. Pages 100-103 are a review and test prep. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks!
Study Guide
Unit 2: The World Around Us
*Know the difference between relative and absolute locations. The book gives an example of an absolute location…find that.
*The United States is a part of which continent?
*Which country is the neighbor to the north of the U.S.?
*Which country is the neighbor to the south of the U.S.?
*Know the following landforms: hills, mountain range, peninsula, island
*Know the following bodies of water: gulf, rivers, lakes, bay
*Know the four seasons.
*Know the four cardinal directions.
*What do directions help you do?
*What is the Equator? What is the farthest point from the Equator?
*What is a compass rose? Are you able to draw a compass rose with cardinal and intermediate directions?
*Not every question above will be on the test. The above section will be multiple choice questions. I will have the kids draw a compass rose with the cardinal (north, east, south, west) and intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest).
*The chart on the test will be similar to that on page 102. There will be statements about the chart and students will have to tell whether the statement is true or false.
*The map portion of the test will ask questions about states in the northeast. It may ask which state is north of Pennsylvania or what direction you should go to get from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. All the questions should be able to be answered by reading the map. Practice by studying page 103.
