2nd Grade Newsletter

Week 20 - January 19, 2023

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Coming up . . .

2/14 - Valentine's Parties TBD

2/15 - Field Trip to Interskate

2/17 & 2/20 Professional Learning Days - No School for Students

1/20-Career Day

1/25-Progress Reports Posted

1/25-MAP Scores go home

1/30-Jump Rope for Heart Begins

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Reading

Word Work/Phonics

r-Controlled Vowel ar • Multisyllabic Words: ar

HFW

body, color, dark, hard, hour, large, part, started, warm, was

Spelling

r-Controlled Vowel ar

• Basic Words: car, card, dark, hard, park, party, smart, star, start, part, spark, yard • Review Words: city, crash, goal, gym

• Challenge Words: partner, sparkle

Concepts:

Story elements: characters, setting, plot, problem and solution
Text connections
Synthesizing information to develop new ideas
Venn diagrams - compare and contrast fractured fairy tales to traditional fairy tales

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Writing

Finish Personal Narratives - A time you overcame a challenge. We are working on the drafts, editing and revising.

Reader's Response: Write you own version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

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Math

Bar graphs
Pictographs
Data
Data analysis - interpreting data on graphs
Generating questions about the data on graphs

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Social Studies

Identify and use information (such as the location and capital of Texas, the capital of the United States and where their community is) on maps and globes using basic map elements such as title, cardinal directions, and a legend.

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Science

Recognizing and identifying objects in the sky such as the sun and the moon.

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Our Prestwick Theme!

Prestwick has a theme this year! Watch this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFUbmS9EJOY

Since the holidays, we've noticed more students having smart watches. Students should not be using them to message anyone or play games during school hours. In the case where they need to reach you during school, we will make sure you are contacted through the office or via email. If you need to reach them, please call the office or email your student's teacher. Thank you for your help on this!

Field Trip Information - February 15th!

This year we will be going to Interskate Roller Rink in Lewisville (off 121). The field trip will be on February 15th. Our fabulous PTA is covering the cost of the field trip, but cost for transportation is still required. Each student will have to pay $4 to cover their portion of the cost for the buses. Please try to send exact change if sending cash.

Permission slips have already been sent home, if you need another copy, please let your teacher know. Permission slips will include this information and directions on how to provide payment in the form of cash or check. If providing a check, please make it payable to Prestwick Elementary.

We are looking forward to this STEM experience. During their event, students will learn about the engineering that goes into roller skates. They will also have the opportunity to enjoy roller skating. They will also be provided lunch! That means there will be no need for a sack lunch unless your child does not want/is not able to eat cheese pizza. Each child will be served two slices of pizza.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Does your student want to log in to Classlink at home?

Go to: https://launchpad.classlink.com/leisd
Students use the same login they have at school.
The username is their lunch number (an 8 digit number 2008XXXX)
Their password is a 3 letter word with a capital letter (ask them if they know it), followed by a period and then their birthdate (i.e. One.0101)