Ask your 2nd Grader:

• to tell you what the name of President James Madison’s wife.
• to tell you what is something Dolley Madison took from the President’s House when she had to flee the house.
• to tell you what the British did when they charged inside the President’s House.

• to tell you the name of the U.S. fort in Baltimore.
• to tell you what was special about the flag that flew at Ft. McHenry.
• to tell you another way to say 11:15, 2:30, and 7:45.
• to tell you what time is 20 minutes before 9:00.
• to tell you the parts of the digestive system.
• to tell you another word for burp.
• to tell you what causes us to belch.

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

 ELA (English Language Arts):

• Wit and Wisdom Module 4: Good Eating
  • Essential Question: How does food nourish us?
  • Focusing Question: How can food nourish my body?
  • Text: The Digestive System by Christine Taylor-Butler
  • Learning Goals:
    • The students will recount the digestive process.
    • The students will begin writing their paragraph for the focusing   question task. . .What important task does the stomach or small intestine do as part of the digestive system?

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:  
  • Unit 6 
  • Read and answer questions from our decodable reader, The War of 1812
  • Phonics: (review)
    • mixed practice 
  • Grammar:  run on sentences; review nouns, adj., verbs, adverbs; building detailed sentences
  • Spelling Words – The words this week are more frequently misspelled words in 2nd graders’ writing.  Please have your child write sentences with these words once you have practiced the correct spelling.
  • Spelling Words:  pretty, don’t, there’s, we’ve, enough, little, were, want, Wednesday, does, says, their, our, around, eight, twelve, right, second, animal
  • Tricky Words: chrysalis

Math:

•  Money

Social Studies

• The War of 1812
• Frances Scott Key and the National Anthem

Science: 

• Animals

Dates to Remember:

• May 5: No school for students – Election Day

• May 8: FIELD DAY!  K–2: 9:30–11:00 
• May 11: Green Hills Grille Spirit Night

May 21: Last Day of School for the 2025-2026 School Year