Dear Parents,
The field trip to the Atlanta History Center was AMAZING! The students were up close and personal with Native American and early settler artifacts. They discussed how the settlers changed the way Native Americans lived, worked, and played. The students became actual Cherokee people that traveled on the Trail of Tears. They walked the Trail of Tears and had to choose between an early settler doctor who wanted to help the weak and sick Cherokee taking a cup of blood from them to make them well, or using their old medicinal ways (the Dogwood tree bark) to help make the Cherokee well. They found that the ones that chose the doctor became weaker and were not able to continue on the trail. They met a Cherokee grandma that just buried her sick granddaughter and was heartsick over the lose. (Honestly, this made us all about cry) It was a great trip and went right along with our Early Georgia curriculum.
Don't forget to dress as your favorite book character on Tuesday...your 2nd grade teachers will be dressing up too! It is a surprise.
In writing and reading we continue to read and write about nonfiction. The students will be submitting what they have written so far for a grade and we will conference together about this. I can't wait for the students to share their "books" to the class.
In grammar we are studying the er sound. Here are the words for this week: Words
her, verb, singer, winter, finger, fern, silver, term
Red Words: just, little, when
Sentence
My sister is under the fern.
We will be learning about collective nouns.
In math we will continue to study word problems for both 2.1 and 3.1. Continue to work on fact fluency (2.1-addition/subtraction; 3.1-multiplication)
We will have a quiz on Friday over the standards we have been covering for the week. For 2.1 it will be about money and word problems.
For 3.1 it will be over multiplication and word problems.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Laura Lamaster
The field trip to the Atlanta History Center was AMAZING! The students were up close and personal with Native American and early settler artifacts. They discussed how the settlers changed the way Native Americans lived, worked, and played. The students became actual Cherokee people that traveled on the Trail of Tears. They walked the Trail of Tears and had to choose between an early settler doctor who wanted to help the weak and sick Cherokee taking a cup of blood from them to make them well, or using their old medicinal ways (the Dogwood tree bark) to help make the Cherokee well. They found that the ones that chose the doctor became weaker and were not able to continue on the trail. They met a Cherokee grandma that just buried her sick granddaughter and was heartsick over the lose. (Honestly, this made us all about cry) It was a great trip and went right along with our Early Georgia curriculum.
Don't forget to dress as your favorite book character on Tuesday...your 2nd grade teachers will be dressing up too! It is a surprise.
In writing and reading we continue to read and write about nonfiction. The students will be submitting what they have written so far for a grade and we will conference together about this. I can't wait for the students to share their "books" to the class.
In grammar we are studying the er sound. Here are the words for this week: Words
her, verb, singer, winter, finger, fern, silver, term
Red Words: just, little, when
Sentence
My sister is under the fern.
We will be learning about collective nouns.
In math we will continue to study word problems for both 2.1 and 3.1. Continue to work on fact fluency (2.1-addition/subtraction; 3.1-multiplication)
We will have a quiz on Friday over the standards we have been covering for the week. For 2.1 it will be about money and word problems.
For 3.1 it will be over multiplication and word problems.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Laura Lamaster