Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving Second Grade Families!
Here's to the day where we celebrate all of our blessings!  May this Thanksgiving bless you with good food, good cheer, and surrounded by all those that you hold the most dear.  This week is a short week for all ACS students.  Monday and Tuesday will both be regular dismissal days.  However, all of the students will be dismissed at noon on Wednesday.  Due to it being a short week, your children will not have any homework, or any Spelling tests!  Instead, your children will be completing ELA lessons from last week's reading story, "Click, Clack, Moo;  Cows That Type."  Please continue reading this newsletter to discover all that will be taking place for the next three days of school.
Second Grade Specials:
Monday ~ Spanish and Art
Tuesday ~ PE and Spanish
Wednesday ~ Music
Thursday ~ PE
Friday ~ Library

ELA
The students will be learning:

  • Different types of sentences (statements, commands, questions)
  • Compound sentences
Social Studies
The students will be focusing on the history of the very first Thanksgiving. 
The students will learn about how the pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians lived and how these two groups of people found a way to live in peace together.  The students will also learn that Squanto was a good friend to the pilgrims by showing them how to plant corn, and how to live in their new land.

 Science  
The students will have a STREAM activity with their 6th grade buddies on Wednesday, Nov. 21st.  The student's STREAM based activity is to collaboratively design and build a den for a turkey.  This lesson will allow the students to better understand how an animal's home not only provides them with shelter, but it also gives the animal needed protection from the weather and from predators.

 Religion
The students will pray during a variety of times through out the day. 

 The students will utilize their religion journal to write about blessings that they are grateful for.

 Enrichment Ideas

 Reading ~
Tumble Books
Math Ideas ~ 
  • IXL
  • Download a child centered math app on an I-pad and let your child practice their basic math facts.  Here are some suggestions, Sushi Monster, Prodigy Math,  or 2nd Grade Math.
  • Mathplayground.com is a free math based website for kids to practice their facts on too!

 Updates
All School Mass  Nov 18 2018 at 08:30 AM
Early Dismissal at 12 p.m.  Nov 21 2018 at 08:00 AM
Chess Club   Nov 21 2018 at 03:10 PM
Thanksgiving Break - No School  Nov 22 2018 

 Homework
The students will not have any homework for this week!

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